Chinese Recipe - Sea Cucumber with Brown Sauce

Ingredients:

• 450g (1 lb) Sea Cucumber
• ½ cup Boiled Bamboo Shoot Slices
• 6 slices Ginger
• 6 sections Green Onion
• 3 Dried Black Mushroom
• ½ cup Green Pea Pod Tip (Young Green Pea Leaves "Dou Miao")
• 1 tbsp Chicken Fat (cooked, liquid. Or use Lard)
• 1 tbsp Sesame Oil

(A):

• (For preparing the sea cucumber)
• 12 Sections Green Onion
• 4 Slices Ginger

(B): (Seasoning)

• 2 cups Stock
• 2 tbsp Soy Sauce
• 1 tbsp Pork Fat
• 1 tsp Cooking Wine
• ½ tsp Sesame Oil
• ½ tsp Sugar
• ¼ tsp Salt

(C): (Cornstarch Mixture)

• 2 tbsp Water
• 1 tbsp Cornstarch

Directions:

1. Wash the soaked sea cucumber and cut into slanting slices. Soften mushroom in hot water, discard the stem and cut into slanting slices.
2. Bring 7 cups water to boil in a pot with (A), add in sea cucumber to cook for 3 minutes. Remove and drain. Discard (A) (the boiled green onion & ginger)
3. Heat the wok, add 3 Tablespoons oil. Stir fry green onion & ginger until fragrant. Add in sea cucumber, bamboo shoot and mushroom, stir fry slightly.
4. Mix in (B) to simmer for 5 minutes, then add in green pea pod tip (young green pea leaves).
5. Thicken with the mixture (C). Sprinkle on chicken fat and sesame oil; serve hot.

Submitted by : Linda