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Fish's Maw Soup #2

Yield: 4 Servings

Ingredients and directions for this recipe

1/4 lb Fish's maw
1/2 c Chicken
6 Water chestnuts
1/4 lb Spinach
1 -(up to)
2 tb Smoked ham
6 c Stock
1 ts Salt
1 ts Soy sauce
1 ds Pepper

1. Soak fish's maw, then dice.

2. Dice chicken and water chestnuts. Cut spinach leaves in 2-inch
sections. Mince ham.

3. Bring stock to a boil. Add diced ingredients and simmer, covered, 30
minutes.

4. Add spinach and simmer, uncovered, 3 minutes. Stir in salt, soy sauce
and pepper. Garnish with minced ham.

VARIATIONS: For the spinach, substitute Chinese lettuce or mustard
cabbage and simmer, uncovered, 6 minutes.

For the chicken, substitute 2 slices smoked ham, cut in strips. Omit ham
garnish.

For the water chestnuts and spinach, substitute 4 dried black mushrooms
(soaked) and 1/2 cup bamboo shoots, both cut in strips. Add both in step 4,
and simmer, covered, 6 minutes. (For color, garnish soup with 4 or 5
blanched snow peas.)

From The Thousand Recipe Chinese Cookbook, ISBN 0-517-65870-4. Downloaded
from Glen's MM Recipe Archive,

See also:
Previous recipe Fish's Maw Soup #1
Next recipe Fish, California Style

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