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CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Meats	Chinese	Soup	4	Servings

INGREDIENTS

4		Dried black mushrooms
1	c	White meat chicken
1	tb	Soy sauce
1/4	ts	Sugar
1/4	ts	Salt
1	ds	Pepper
1/2	c	Bamboo shoots
1/2	lb	Spinach
2	sl	Smoked ham
2	tb	Oil
1/4	ts	Salt
2	ts	Soy sauce

INSTRUCTIONS

1. Soak dried mushrooms.
2. Slice chicken. Combine soy sauce, sugar, salt and pepper. Add to chicken
and toss to coat.
3. Slice bamboo shoots and soaked mushrooms. Shred spinach and mince ham.
4. Heat oil. Add remaining salt, then chicken and stir-fry until it loses
its pinkness (about 2 minutes).
5. Add bamboo shoots, mushrooms and spinach; stir-fry 2 minutes more.
Sprinkle with remaining soy sauce.
6. Arrange mixture as a topping over noodles in soup. Garnish with minced
ham and serve. VARIATIONS:
1. For the chicken, substitute shelled and deveined shrimp.
2. For the spinach, substitute 2 tablespoons cloud ear mushrooms (soaked5.
sliced; and 1/4 cup lily buds (soaked), cut in two.
From <The Thousand Recipe Chinese Cookbook>, ISBN 0-517-65870-4. Downloaded
from Glen's MM Recipe Archive, http://www.erols.com/hosey.

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