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Chinese Lettuce Soup With Fish Balls Recipe


CHINESE LETTUCE SOUP WITH FISH BALLS Recipe
An easy really tasty filling soup with a Chinese influence, ginger gives it a clean crisp after taste

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Ingredients
  • 1 Chinese lettuce (wombok)
  • 500g fish fillets (no skin or bones & not fresh water fish – use sea fish)
  • ½ teaspoon sugar
  • salt & pepper
  • 1 teaspoon cornflour
  • 1 egg white
  • 2 shallots
  • ¼ inch piece fresh ginger finely sliced or grated
  • 1¼ litres (5 cups) water
  • 2 chicken stock cubes
  • 2 tablespoon oil
  • Sesame oil to taste
  • Dried Chinese mushrooms (optional)
  • Noodles (optional)

Directions
  1. If using dried mushrooms & noodles soak in boiling water until soft
  2. Remove skin and bones from fish fillets, chop roughly and blend in metal blade blender with salt, sugar, pepper, cornflour and egg white until well combined
  3. Stir in finely chopped shallots
  4. Make into small (heaped teaspoons full) balls
  5. Heat oil and ginger in pan, add stock cubes and water, bring to boil. Add fish balls and sesame oil and cook until ready
  6. Add drained mushrooms, noodles and Chinese lettuce (cut in squares or finely sliced) cook until the wombok is just tender yet still crispy and serve (with soy sauce or chilli to taste if desired)

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