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Chinese Cookery
Monthly Recipe   V1-3   August 1999
Steamed Fish

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Ingredients:

1 perch about 1.5 lb., or other fish with few bones and tender meat
1.5 oz ham
1.5 oz bamboo shoot
1oz black mushrooms, soaked in water
4 sections scallions, about 1" long
1 teaspoon ginger slices
3 Chinese cabbage (or other green vegetable) hearts
15 peppercorns (optional)
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon sherry
6 fl oz chicken broth
1 teaspoon  vegetable oil

Procedure:

   Scale, gill, gut and wash the fish.   Make diagonal cuts to the bones at 0.5" intervals on both sides of the fish.   Dunk fish in boiling water for a moment, wash fish cavity thoroughly again in cold water.  Sprinkle salt on fish and place it in a dish.  Add sherry.

   Cut ham, bamboo shoots, black mushrooms into 1.5"x1"x1/4" slices.  Blanch them in boiling water.   Cut vegetable hearts vertically into halves and dip in boiling water for one minute.  Remove and cut horizontally into 2"-long sections.  Place ham, bamboo shoots, mushrooms, alternatively on top of fish.  Add scallions, ginger and peppercorns, then broth.  Place dish in a steamer and steam over high heat for 20 minutes.  Remove, discard scallions, ginger and peppercorns.  Arrange cabbage sections around fish.  Sprinkle in 1 teaspoon hot vegetable oil and serve.   

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