Title: MOCK FISH BUDDHIST
Categories: Vegetarian, Chinese
Yield: 1 servings
1 lg Potato; cooked, peeled
-and sliced 1/4 inch thick
2 tb Flour
Peanut oil; for frying
1 sm Onion; sliced
1/2 lb Snow peas
10 Wood ears; soaked to soften,
- tough ends removed,
- cut in slivers
1/2 ts Salt
1/2 ts Sugar
1/3 c Water
Sprinkle potatoes with flour and deep-fry until
golden.
Drain and set aside. Pour off all but 2 tablespoons
of the oil, reheat an add onion. Stir-fry 10 seconds
and add snow peas and wood ears. Stir-fry another 10
seconds and add salt, sugar and water. Bring to rapid
boil, stirring constantly, and cook until peas are
just tender crisp. Add reserved fried potato slices,
heat through and serve.
Wood ears are a type of mushroom or shelf fungus.
When soaked it has a crunchy, gelatinous texture with
little taste. If you can't find them, I imagine that
you could use the dried mushrooms although they
wouldn't give exactly the same effect. A closer
substitute would be dried jellyfish, but if you're
some- where that sells dried jellyfish, I'm sure that
they have wood ears as well...
