Saturday, February 17, 2007

Dinner Friday 16 February - Asian Soup with Noodles & Fish Cake



This started off as a Japanese soup, then veered off towards Chinese.

The wakame is just simmered to add flavour to the dashi - as dashi is flavoured with wakame to begin with, you could omit this step, but I like quite a strong wakame flavour.

Asian Soup with Noodles & Fish Cake
1 pint dashi
3 tablespoons mirin
3 tablespoons soy sauce
1 piece of wakame seaweed
pinch of sliced arame seaweed
75g enoki mushrooms
100g Shanghai style fresh noodles
1 Chinese fish cake, sliced
handful coriander leaves
3 spring onions, sliced (about 40g)
10 Chinese flowering chives
1 tablespoon 7 Spice Pepper

Place the dashi and wakame in a pot and simmer, covered, for about 30 minutes. Add the soy, mirin, enoki and arame and simmer for a further 10 minutes.

Remove the wakame and discard. Add the noodles & sliced fish cake and simmer for 1 or 2 minutes. Place the sliced flowering chives in a steamer over the broth/noodles so they can steam for a couple minutes while the noodles cook.

When noodles are cooked, add the coriander and spring onions. Pour into a bowl & garnish with the chives and 7 Spice pepper.


Nutrition Data
Calories (kcal) 514.0
Carbohydrate (g) 77.5
Protein (g) 27.1
Fat (g) 6.8
Fibre (g) 7.3
Wakame Seaweed
Arame Seaweed
I just noticed that the fish cake I bought is made in London by Tak Kee Trading Co. Ltd. Great name.

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