Transparent Noodles with Dried Shrimp and Turnips

Name: Transparent Noodles with Dried Shrimp and Turnips (蝦米蘿蔔煮粉絲)
Yield: Serves 2 to 4.
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 3 tablespoons oil; 2 cups shredded icicle turnips or white radishes; 1 medium whole scallion, finely chopped; 1 to 1½ teaspoons salt; 2 tablespoons dried shrimp (presoaked); 1 tablespoon dry sherry; ¼ cup boiling water; ¾ cup chicken stock (approximately); 2 ounces transparent noodles (presoaked)

蝦米蘿蔔煮粉絲

Preparation info

Serves
2 to 4
.

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Key to Chinese Cooking

By Irene Kuo

Published 1977

About

This is a delicate-looking dish of glistening noodles, translucent turnips, pink shrimp, and green scallions. The stock-sauce is flavored by the deep-sea taste of the dried shrimp.

Ingredients

2 tablespoons dried shrimp (presoaked)
¼ cup boiling water
1

Asia
China
Noodles

Method

Preparations

Pour ¼ cup boiling water over the dried shrimp and soak for 1 hour; they should have expanded and softened. Remove them 15 minutes before cooking and put them in a bowl with the sherry. Cover and let them marinate. Pour the shrimp-soaking liquid into a me