Chrysanthemum Bowl Recipe
Chrysanthemum Bowl is a Chinese delicacy. Chrysanthemum Bowl gets its taste from chicken and seafood cooked with vegetable and eggs. Chrysanthemum Bowl is inspired by many food chains around the world.
Ingredients
1 whole chicken breast (or 2; you may want to buy an extra whole breast)
1 to 2 pounds spinach
1/2 head Chinese cabbage
1 pound white firm-fleshed fish, such as halibut or swordfish
1 cup small oysters
1/2 pound peeled, deveined, jumbo shrimp or prawns
1/2 pound pork tenderloin
1/2 pound chicken livers or 2 pork kidneys (optional)
1/4 pound bean thread (optional)
Salad oil for frying (optional)
2 large white chrysanthemum blossoms
6 raw eggs
Directions
Slice the chicken breast very thin.
Remove tough stems from the spinach; stack each 5 or 6 leaves together, then cut in 3 or 4 diagonal slices.
Slice the cabbage diagonally about 1 1/2 inches wide.
Slice fish.
Leave oysters whole.
Cut each shrimp in several pieces.
Slice pork very thin.
Blanch the chicken livers or kidneys and slice thin.
If you include the bean thread, be sure to buy the right kind.
It is called saifun by the Chinese, harasume by the Japanese.
Another type, which looks the same, is called shirataki, but it turns into a sticky dough instead of puffing up when fried.
Fry the bean threads in deep fat heated to 390°; they will immediately puff up and turn white in a rather explosive fashion (try out a few strands first, so that you will be prepared); remove and drain.
Arrange each of the above ingredients attractively in bowls or trays.
Wash the blossoms well.
Leave eggs in shells
Remove tough stems from the spinach; stack each 5 or 6 leaves together, then cut in 3 or 4 diagonal slices.
Slice the cabbage diagonally about 1 1/2 inches wide.
Slice fish.
Leave oysters whole.
Cut each shrimp in several pieces.
Slice pork very thin.
Blanch the chicken livers or kidneys and slice thin.
If you include the bean thread, be sure to buy the right kind.
It is called saifun by the Chinese, harasume by the Japanese.
Another type, which looks the same, is called shirataki, but it turns into a sticky dough instead of puffing up when fried.
Fry the bean threads in deep fat heated to 390°; they will immediately puff up and turn white in a rather explosive fashion (try out a few strands first, so that you will be prepared); remove and drain.
Arrange each of the above ingredients attractively in bowls or trays.
Wash the blossoms well.
Leave eggs in shells
