Chinese Recipe - Straw Mushroom with Crabmeat

Ingredients:

• 1 soft shelled crab (250 g)
• 750 g straw mushrooms (cooked 1 minute in boiling water)
• 750 g green cabbage or broccoli sections
• 1 stalk scallion, cut into 2.5cm / 1inch lengths
• 6 slices root ginger
• 1 tsp rice wine
• 8 tbsp oil

Seasoning for ingredients:

• ½ tbsp rice wine
• 2 stalks scallions (cut into 5cm or 2 inched lengths)
• 2 slices ginger root

Sauce ingredients:

• 1 tsp salt
• ¼ tsp black pepper
• 1 tsp sesame oil
• 1 cup water
• 1 tbsp cornstarch blended with 1 tbsp water

Directions:

1. Clean crab and mix with seasoning ingredients. Steam for 10 minutes over high heat. When cool, remove meat from shell.
2. Heat 4 tbsp oil in wok, stir fry green cabbage quickly with 1 tbsp water and 1 tsp salt till tender. Remove to plate.
3. Heat remaining oil and stir fry scallion and sugar till fragrant. Add straw mushrooms, rice wine and sauce ingredients. Stir a while, then add crabmeat.
4. Thicken with blended cornstarch.
5. Dish out, serve hot, surrounded with green cabbage.