Stir-Fried Shredded Chicken, Vegetarian Style

Name: Stir-Fried Shredded Chicken, Vegetarian Style (Ch’ao su chi ssu)
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 1 bamboo shoot; 2 red hot peppers; 6 pieces wheat gluten stick; 2 green peppers; ½ teaspoon salt; ¼ teaspoon MSG; 6 tablespoons oil; 2 tablespoons soy sauce

Ch’ao su chi ssu

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Pei-Mei’s Chinese Cookbook

By Fu Pei-Mei

Published 1969

About

Ingredients

6 pieces wheat gluten stick
2 green peppers
1 bamboo shoot

Asia
Taiwan
Side dish
Vegan

Method

Unroll each wheat gluten stick into one big sheet, then shred into strings 2 inches long. Scald in boiling water for 20 seconds, remove, then plunge into cold water and squeeze dry.
Cut green peppers, bamboo shoot, and red peppers into strings.
Stir-fry wheat gluten strings in 6 tablespoons oil, than add bamboo shoot, red and green peppers, salt, and