Vegetarian Crispy Beggar’s Purses

Preparation info
  • Serves

    6-8

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Ken Hom's Hot Wok

By Ken Hom

Published 1996

  • About

I was invited to cook at John Cleese’s final cast party for his film Fierce Creatures. He requested a vegetarian treat, so I adapted my Crispy Beggar’s Purses into something fiery and fierce, but without any creatures!

Ingredients

  • 1 packet spring roll skins, preferably Shanghai-type
  • 25 g (1 oz) cloud ear fungu

Method

If frozen, thaw the spring roll skins throughly. Soak the fungus or mushrooms in warm water for 20 minutes. If using the fungus, finely shred, cutting off and discarding any hard ends. If using the Chinese mushrooms, squeeze out the excess liquid. Remove and discard the stems and finely chop the caps. Soak the noodles in a large bowl of warm water for 15 minutes. When soft, drain and discard th