Name: Chinese Mustard Greens Soup
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 1 teaspoon Shaoxing rice wine or dry sherry; 1 teaspoon toasted sesame oil; 225 g (8 oz) Chinese mustard greens; 225 g (8 oz) lean pork; 4 teaspoons light soy sauce; ¼ teaspoon freshly ground white pepper; 1 teaspoon salt; 1 teaspoon sugar; 1 litre (1¾ pints)Chinese Chicken Stock or store-bought fresh stock; 3 tablespoons finely chopped spring onions, white part only; 1 teaspoon cornflour; 3 tablespoons finely chopped spring onion greens, to garnish; 2 teaspoons groundnut oil

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Easy Family Dishes

By Ken Hom

Published 1998

About

Chinese mustard greens have been a favourite vegetable of mine since I was a child. Their strong, pungent aroma and mustard bite, with a slightly bitter edge, is refreshing - whether combined with meat in a stir-fry or when they add zest to a refreshing soup, as in this recipe.

Ingredients

225 g (8 oz) Chinese mustard greens
225 g (8

Soup

Method

Prepare the mustard greens: separate the leaves and stalks, and cut the leaves into 5 cm (2 in) pieces. Peel the stalks, cut them into diagonal slices and wash them well in several changes of water.

Cut the pork into thin strips and mix it with 2

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