Thursday, July 26, 2012

Chinese Wine with Ginger Crab Noodle

When i was working in as a kitchen helper in one of the chinese take out in upstate New York, i learnt quite a lot from the chef and the lady boss there even though i rarely cook but there was one dish i learnt from my lady body. It was Chinese Wine with Ginger Crab Noodle. At first she cooked that for her family own consumption. When towards end of the night, she specially make that again for me and my husband. My husband loved it so much so the next day, i asked if she can teach me how to make that. So here is the recipe. I hope you enjoy it.




Serving: 2
Ingredients
2 crabs (cleaned and cut into halves)
2 bundle of bean noodle ( you can use Yellow Noodle for sweeter taste)
1 stalk of spring onion / scallion (cut)
1/2 onion (sliced)
4 tsp garlic (minced)
4 tsp ginger (shreded)
4 tbsp chinese cooking wine (Shao Hsing Cooking Wine)
2 tbsp oyster sauce
2 tbsp soy sauce
2 tsp oil
4 cups of water
Pinch of salt
Pinch of pepper

Method

  1. Heat up oil in a pot and stir fry garlic, ginger and onion until you get the aroma ( about 1 to 2 mins)
  2. Add in the crabs and stir fry for another 3 mins.
  3. Pour in 4 cups of water and let it simmer in medium heat for another 15 minutes
  4. On a different pot, cook the bean noodle / yellow noodle. (Follow the instruction on the packet)
  5. Once the noodle is cooked, drained and set aside.
  6. Back to the stock, now add in the oyster sauce, soy sauce and chinese wine (shao hsing cooking wine) for another 3 more minutes.
  7. Add in pinch of salt and pepper for taste.
  8. To serve, place noodle in the bowl and pour in generous amount of the stock and the rest of the ingredients.
  9. Garnish with some spring onion / scallion
Ready to serve.




4 comments:

  1. Hopefully you will like it. Yellow Noodle actually compliment the dish better but my husband prefer bean noodle as he dont really like sweet stuff. You can also increase the amount of Shao Hsing Wine to have stronger aroma and sweeter taste in the soup :)

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  2. My gosh! It looks so delicious.
    Btw, If i don't want to use wine, what is a good substitute?

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  3. @Tara Ooi, you can totally eliminate the wine. Add Sesame oil instead to get the aroma (a tbsp at a time until you reach the taste and saltiness that you like). Without the wine is still delicious. If you dont want it to be too oily, replace the oil with sesame oil to stir fry your ingredients. I added the wine because it can keep my body warm during winter.

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