Buddhist Delight Recipe - Cooking Index
Buddhist Delight Recipe - Cooking Index
You can always find this dish on Chinese restaurant menus. It traditionally contains dried black moss, dried bean curd (tofu) stick and ginkgo nuts, but my simplified version is just as good and is easy to prepare.
Type: Vegetables| Sauce | ||
| 2/3 cup | 157ml | Vegetable broth |
| 2 tablespoons | 30ml | Soy sauce |
| 2 teaspoons | 10ml | Sesame oil |
| 1 1/2 teaspoons | 7.5ml | Sugar |
| 1/2 teaspoon | 2.5ml | Salt |
| 1/4 teaspoon | 1.3ml | Freshly-ground white pepper |
| Stir Fry | ||
| 1 tablespoon | 15ml | Canola oil - (to 2) |
| 1 teaspoon | 5ml | Minced garlic |
| 1 teaspoon | 5ml | Minced ginger |
| 3 | Green onions - cut 1" pieces | |
| 8 | Dried shiitake mushrooms - soaked until soft, | |
| And thinly sliced | ||
| 1 | Carrot - thinly sliced | |
| 1/4 cup | 59ml | Julienned bamboo shoots |
| 1/2 cup | 118ml | Sliced water chestnuts |
| 1 | Baby corn - (15 oz) - drained | |
| 1/2 lb | 227g / 8oz | Snow peas |
| 1/2 lb | 227g / 8oz | Napa cabbage - cut 1" by 2" pieces |
| 2 oz | 56g | Dried bean thread noodles - broken 4" pieces, |
| And soaked in warm water to cover | ||
| 1/2 lb | 227g / 8oz | Firm tofu - cut 1" cubes. |
Sauce: Combine all ingredients in a bowl; set aside.
Stir-Fry: Heat oil in work or large deep skillet over high heat. Add garlic, ginger, green onions and mushrooms; stir-fry 1 minute. Add carrot, bamboo shoots, water chestnuts, corn, peas and cabbage; cook about 2 minutes.
Add sauce, cover and cook 5 minutes. Drain noodles, and add to work with tofu. Reduce heat to low and cook until most of sauce is absorbed, about 15 minutes. Serve as is or over rice.
This recipe yields 6 servings.
Source:
Vegetarian Times, Feb 1995
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