Buddha's delight
Ingredients
- 3 slices fresh ginger
- 3 tbsp red fermented bean curd
- 6 cloves garlic
- 1 medium leek
- 8 dried shiitake mushrooms
- ¼ cup dried wood ears
- ¼ cup dried lily flowers
- 2 tbsp shaoxing wine
- 3 cups napa cabbage, chopped
- 1 carrot, sliced
- 4 heads baby pak choi
- 1 cup shiitake mushrooms
- 1 cup fried tofu puffs
- 1 tin bamboo shoots
- 2 sticks dried bean curd
- 1 tsp sesame oil
- 2 tbsp soy sauce
- 1 tsp dark soy sauce
- 2 tsp sugar
- ½ cup vegetable stock
- 1 small bundle mung bean noodles
- Rice
Steps
- Rinse lily flowers. Place in a bowl and cover in boiling water for at least 30 mins. Cut off the ends.
- Soak dried shiitake mushrooms, bean curd and wood ears in separate bowls of hot water for 30 mins.
- Clean and cook the rice.
- Soak the mung bean noodles in warm water, drain and cut into shorter pieces.
- Heat oil in the wok and add the ginger and carrot.
- Add the red fermented bean curd and break it up with your spatula.
- Add the garlic, the white portions of the leeks, wood ears, and lily flowers.
- Next add the cabbage, tofu, and bean threads and turn up the heat.
- Add the rest of the leeks, sesame oil, soy sauce, sugar, shiitake mushrooms, stock and ½ cup mushroom stock.
- Cook until the vegetables are cooked through. Adding the pak choi halfway.
- Add the mung bean noodles and keep stirring until most of the liquid has evaporated.
