Chinese: Cold Shredded Vegetables with Chicken

Title:
Chinese: Cold Shredded Vegetables with Chicken

Yield:
6 Servings

Categories:
Main
Dishes,
Chicken,
Leeks,
Onions,
Chinese




Ingredients:





     2 lg Leeks


     3    Green onions


     2 sm Zucchini


     2 sm Carrots


     2    Long "seedless type"


          -cucumbers


     1    Long white radish


     2    Wood ear black fungus


     1    Egg


     1 tb Peanut oil


   1/2 c  Cooked chicken meat


     2 md Tomatoes


          SAUCE:


     1 ts Juice of ginger root


     1 ts Dry mustard


     2 ts Sugar


 1 1/2 tb Thin soy sauce


 1 1/2 tb Sesame oil


 1 1/2 ts Chinkiang vinegar


     1 tb Freshly squeezed tomato


          -juice






 Prepare Dressing:  In mixing bowl, mix mustard & sugar; gradually add thin


 soy sauce, blend to avoid lumping.  Squeeze some peeled ginger root through


 a garlic press to extract juice.  Squeeze juice from tomato.  Add other


 sauce ingredients; stir well and set aside.


 


 Prepare salad:  Wash, then soak, wood ear fungus in 3 cups warm water for
1


 hour.  Beat egg; fry very thin omelet in large skillet greased with peanut


 oil.  Fry both sides gently.  Set aside to cool.


 


 Trim leeks, green onions, zucchini, carrots & white radish.  Cut ends off


 cucumber, but don`t peel.  Peel carrots & radish.  Shred vegetables with


 shredder or cleaver.  Wash tomatoes & cut each into eighths.  Shred chicken


 with fingers.  Thinly slice omelet into strips.  Pour boiling water over


 fungus & drain.  Cut out hard center & cut floppy ears into thin strips.


 


 Finish:  Layer shredded vegetables in center of serving plate, mounding


 slightly as you build layers of cucumber, carrot, chicken, fungus,


 zucchini, egg, leeks, radish, green onion & so on, ending with cucumber.


 Arrange tomatoe wedge around outer edge.  Working from center of vegetable


 mound, arrange egg strips like spokes of a wheel.  Add dressing and serve.


 


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