Huangyou Xie Fen

Name: Huangyou Xie Fen (Mock Crab)
Yield: Serves 4 as Part of a Chinese Meal, or 2 as a Single Dish.
Cuisine: China
Ingredients: 1 teaspoon salt; 1 tablespoon finely chopped peeled fresh ginger root; 6 eggs, beaten; ½ teaspoon Freshly ground white pepper; 1 tablespoon sesame oil; 225 g/8 oz carrots, peeled and cut into small dice; 225 g/8 oz potatoes, peeled and cut into small dice; 2 tablespoons finely chopped garlic; 2 tablespoons peanut oil

Mock Crab

Preparation info

Serves
4
as Part of a Chinese Meal, or 2 as a Single Dish.

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Taste of China

By Ken Hom

Published 1990

About

Another Gongdelin restaurant vegetarian dish masquerading as animal protein, this time including diced potatoes and carrots. The egg whites and shreds of yellow yolks simulate the colours of crab meat, hence the name of the dish. This is a quite flavourful simple-to-make vegetarian dish.

Ingredients

225 g/8 oz potatoes, peeled and cut into small dice
225 g/8

Asia
China
Main course
Gluten-free
Vegetarian

Method

Blanch the potatoes and carrots in a large pot of boiling salted water for 2 minutes and drain thoroughly.

Heat a wok or large frying pan until hot. Add the oil, garlic, ginger, salt, and pepper and stir-fry for 30 seconds. Put in the carrots and potatoes, and continue to stir-fry for 1 minute.

Combine the eggs with sesame oil and pour this over the vegetables and stir. Let the