WaterLily Platter Recipe
I live by this quote - If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world - and have to say that this recipe for Chinese Waterlily Platter is the one that I value the most. A delicious Side Dish, the Waterlily Platter completes your meal. Made with Vegetable, Waterlily Platter is a mouth-watering dish. It is a Chinese kitchen invention. Don't rob yourself of the pleasure of having Waterlily Platter. Go and prepare it immediately.
Ingredients
Canned bamboo shoots
Unpeeled cucumber
'Water-lily' radishes
4-6 wafer thin slices cooked duck
4-5 wafer thin slices lean ham
4-6 wafer thin slices white chicken meat
4-6 wafer thin slices canned awabi
6 mushrooms
Canned green asparagus
Directions
Slice the bamboo shoots and the unpeeled cucumber to your liking.
Prepare the 'water-lily' radishes.
Fold the slices of cooked duck, ham, chicken meat and awabi and arrange the various ingredients to make an attractive pattern.
This arrangement also enables the guests to help themselves to what they like, without disturbing the arrangement too much.
Group each ingredient for colour contrast.
For instance, the green asparagus separating the white chicken meat; the green cucumber accenting the bamboo shoots and so on.
The centre-piece is awabi cut into petal shapes to form a flower.
TO MAKE RADISH 'WATER-LILIES' Choose radishes of good shape.
See that they are not too long and not too squat.
Starting at the pointed end of each radish, cut petal shapes almost to the base with a small sharp knife.
Drop the radishes into very cold, preferably iced, water and the 'petals' will spring out.
Prepare the 'water-lily' radishes.
Fold the slices of cooked duck, ham, chicken meat and awabi and arrange the various ingredients to make an attractive pattern.
This arrangement also enables the guests to help themselves to what they like, without disturbing the arrangement too much.
Group each ingredient for colour contrast.
For instance, the green asparagus separating the white chicken meat; the green cucumber accenting the bamboo shoots and so on.
The centre-piece is awabi cut into petal shapes to form a flower.
TO MAKE RADISH 'WATER-LILIES' Choose radishes of good shape.
See that they are not too long and not too squat.
Starting at the pointed end of each radish, cut petal shapes almost to the base with a small sharp knife.
Drop the radishes into very cold, preferably iced, water and the 'petals' will spring out.
