Double-Steamed Chinese Cabbage Soup

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Preparation info
  • Serves

    4

    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in
Ken Hom's Hot Wok

By Ken Hom

Published 1996

  • About

Yet another wok-friendly soup, the unusual technique for making this soup is not difficult to master. Double-steaming is a process in which rich ingredients are steamed for hours in a covered casserole filled with soup. This diffuses and marries all the flavours of the different ingredients. It is a technique often used for making the classic Shark’s Fin and Bird’s Nest Soups.

The result is a distinctive consommé, clear and rich but also light. Here the delicate sweet flavour of the

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