Mock Fish (Buddhist)

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Mock Fish (Buddhist) Ingredients

1 lg Potato, cooked, peeled and	10 Wood ears, soaked to
2 tb Flour	1/2 ts Salt
Peanut oil for frying	1/2 ts Sugar
1 sm Onion, sliced	1/3 c Water
1/2 lb Snow peas

Instructions for Mock Fish (Buddhist)

Heres one for mock fish, using potatoes to replace the finny critter, that sounds like a pretty tasty vegetarian dish regardless of how much the potato resembles a fish. Sprinkle potatoes with flour and deep-fry until golden. Drain and set aside. Pour off all but 2 tablespoons of the oil, reheat an add onion. Stir-fry for 10 seconds and add snow peas and wood ears. Stir- fry for another 10 seconds and add salt, sugar and water. Bring to rapid boil, stirring constantly, and cook until peas are just tender crisp. Add reserved fried potato slices, heat through and serve. Wood ears are a type of mushroom or shelf fungus. When soaked it has a crunchy, gelatinous texture with little taste. If you cant find them, I imagine that you could use the dried mushrooms although they wouldnt give exactly the same effect. A closer substitute would be dried jellyfish, but if youre somewhere that sells dried jellyfish, Im sure that they have wood ears as well. From "The Regional Cooking of China" by Margaret Gin and Alfred E. Castle. 101 Productions, San Francisco, 1975. Posted by Stephen Ceideburg; December 20 1990. File ftp://ftp.idiscover.co.uk/pub/food/mealmaster/recipes/cberg2.zip

Main Ingredient: Seafood-OtherCuisine: Chinese

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