Soup with Stuffed Cucumbers Recipe

cooking time : 30-35 minutes

 

Ingredients

  • 1-2 cucumbers

  • 170 grams raw pork, minced

  • 1 egg, beaten

  • salt

  • 1 tablespoon Chinese wine (or sherry)

  • 1 tablespoon corn flour

  • 113 grams  mushrooms, with small flat caps

  • 1.14 litter light stock (or water with a bouillon cube)

  • pinch Ve-Tsin

Method

 

1. Peel cucumbers, cut into 1 1/2 -inch chunks and with a small ball scoop carefully hollow out, to make

    little cups', i.e. without digging right through.
2. Put pork in a bowl, add egg, pinch salt, wine and corn flour. Blend well and use the mixture for stuffing

    the cucumber `cups'. Pack the stuffed cucumbers, standing upright, into a pan, cover each with a

    mushroom cap.
3. Carefully add 280 ml lightly salted stock, cover the pan and simmer for 2 hour.
4. Bring remainder of 'stock to the boil, add Ve-Tsin. Pour into the pan containing cucumbers, cook for

   1 minute and serve.

 

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