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Easy Chinese Clay Pot Recipes! Hairy Gourd and Vermicelli
By Justina Lee
If you're into Chinese cooking, you might want to consider getting a Chinese clay
pot. Clay pot cooking is one of the easiest cooking methods to prepare a one-
Take clay pot rice for example, all you need is to fry the meats (clay pot rice tastes heavenly with Chinese sausage and salted fish) and vegetables of your choice in the clay pot, add rice grains, enough water, cover and cook, and you're just about 20 minutes away from a piping hot meal.
However, you have to be very careful when cooking with clay pot to allow it to heat
up and cool down very slowly to prevent cracking. So, be fore-
Today, let's do something different, let's make hairy gourd and vermicelli in clay pot.
Vermicelli, also known as glass noodles or cellophane noodles are thin, slippery, translucent noodles made from mung beans and since they've little or no taste, they'll absorb flavors of the ingredients that are cooked with, in this case, the natural sweetness of dried shrimps and hairy gourd.
Vermicelli is an excellent alternative to rice – great on days when you want something not so heavy but yet filling.
Hairy Gourd and Vermicelli Clay Pot Recipe
(serves 2)
Ingredients:
1 medium hairy gourd, about 300 grams
50 grams dried shrimps
60 grams mung bean vermicelli
½ cup cooking oil
1 tablespoon chopped garlic
salt to taste
1 tablespoon light soy sauce
1 cup chicken stock
How to cook:
Soak dried prawns in water until softened, about 10 minutes and drain.
Soften vermicelli in water for 10 minutes and cut into halves. Drain well.
Remove skin of the hairy gourd and slant cut into ½ cm slices. Then cut the slices into ½ cm strips.
Heat clay pot with oil, add garlic and fry until light brown.
Add dried shrimps and stir fry until fragrant. Add in hairy gourd, salt, light soy sauce and chicken stock.
Cover clay pot and let ingredients cook over high flame for 3 minutes. Serve hot in clay pot.
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