Mock Vegetable Pasta

In Chinese vegetarian cookery, a dish is not always what it appears to be. For example, ‘mock duck’ is taro root stuffed with minced vegetables and fried to a golden brown to look like duck. I enjoy the fun and imaginativeness of such creativity and here I take courgettes and cut them into long thin strips to look like pasta. I then salt them to remove excess moisture and, in the process, firm their texture. Quickly stir-fried with traditional Chinese seasonings, the resulting dish looks an