Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Cheng Tau, Hu Chi (Chicken Liver and Green Pea Soup)

Four Persons

3 chicken livers.
1 tin green peas.
1 tablespoon chopped mushrooms.
1 teaspoon ginger.
1 small tin bamboo shoots.
3 giblets.
1 tablespoon soya sauce.
1 piece of lean pork and a few bones.

Method: Make a strong stock by boiling any bones and a piece of lean pork. Chop up chicken livers, giblets, mushrooms, ginger, and bamboo shoots. Put in a deep pan, pour in stock through a strainer, strain peas and add, with soya sauce, pepper and salt, and bring to boil. Serve in soup-bowls.

Source: Azhar Ilias Abbas Recipes of the Orient Selected From Easily Obtainable Ingredients (Adelaide: Rigby, 1962), p.41.
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