Chow Family Fot Choy Stir-Fry

(from Lucianolinda’s recipe box)

Fot Choy a type of hair like algae- look for it in Chinese markets

Source: Eat, Drink Mississippi

Categories: Casseroles- One Dish Meals- Stir Fry- Pot Pies

Ingredients

  • 1/2 cup dried Fot Choy
  • 1 cup rice vermicelli
  • 3 eggs
  • salt
  • 3/4 cup chicken broth
  • 1/2 cup dried black Chinese mushrooms, sliced
  • large piece of chicken fat
  • Water, enough to cover mushrooms in small saucepan
  • 3 fresh ginger roots, sliced
  • 1/4 tsp. sugar
  • 1 pkg. soft tofu
  • 2 cups roast pork
  • 3 cloves garlic
  • 1 (8 oz.) pkg. sugar snap or snow peas
  • 4 Tbsp. canola oil
  • 4 cups celery cabbage, in 1.5 inch strips
  • 2 Tbsp. water
  • 2 Tbsp. cornstarch
  • 2 cups chicken broth
  • 1 Tbsp. oyster sauce
  • 1 tsp. sesame oil
  • salt and pepper

Directions

  1. Soak Fot Choy for 2 hours; rinse and squeeze out water. Soak the rice vermicelli 30 minutes, then drain.

  2. Beat the eggs, add salt and mix with 3/4 cup chicken broth. Mix liquids and rice vermicelli with the Fot Choy; pour into a greased glass pie plate. Using a fork, separate vermicelli and Fot Choy. Steam for 30 minutes or until set.

  3. When cool, scoop out the Fot Choy with a spatula. Cut round Fat Choy cake into quarters, cut each quarter in 3 strips, and then slice each strip into 1/8 inch pieces for dish.

  4. Soak dried mushrooms 30 minutes, then cut off stems and rinse. Place mushrooms in a small saucepan with chicken fat, water, 4 thick slices of ginger, and 1/4 tsp. sugar. Simmer for 2 hours. Cool mushrooms, then slice thinly.

  5. Pan sear tofu with a little bit of oil in a nonstick pan. Slice roast pork, sear in wok with 1 clove minced garlic. Remove from wok and set aside. (If roast pork is fresh-out of the cooker, there is no need to sear meat in the wok).

  6. Pinch off tips of sugar peas, pull string down, and break off bottom tip. Blanch, cool in cold water.
  7. In a very hot wok, add 2 Tbsp. canola oil, half of remaining ginger, and then half of remaining garlic. Toss I’m celery, cabbage, and sugar peas. Stir-fry for about 4 minutes. Put ingredients in a bowl.

  8. Heat wok again, add 2 Tbsp. canola oil, add remaining water and cornstarch and stir until smooth. Add 2 cups chicken broth into wok, bring to boil, and stir in cornstarch. Broth should become fairly thick. If not, make more cornstarch to thicken again.

  9. Stir in mushrooms, celery, cabbage, sugar peas an roast pork. Gently add tofu and Fot Choy slices. Add oyster sauce and sesame oil. Add salt and pepper to taste.

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