Hubei Dishes

Mandarin Fish in Tomato Juice

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Preparations:

Clean the fish and cut into long slices, score the two sides, steep in scallion and ginger sauce and cooking wine for 30 minutes.
Then coat the fish slices with dried cornstarch, deep-fry in 8-fold hot oil till golden brown and look like grapes, transfer to a plate.
Scald green cabbage leaves, cut into grape-leaf-like patterns and place beside the fish "grapes".
Pour tomato ketchup into hot oil, stir well, pour over the fish.

Fish Wedges

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Preparations:

Mash the fish, add seasonings, minced water chest-nuts, and egg white, stir in one direction adding water at the same time to make a paste.
Pour water into a saucepan and put over a low heat.
Make the mashed fish into orange-like wedges, and drop one by one into the saucepan, move to a high heat and stew till 80% done, pour in cold water, stew for one minute and remove.
Add mushroom slices and seasoning to chichen soup, bring to the boil, drop in the fish wedges, stew until done, transfer to a bowl, sprinkle with chopped scallion and white pepper.

Eight-Treasure Sea Cucumbers

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Preparations:

Rinse and slice into strips the sea cucumbers and tendons.
Slice into pieces the bamboo shoots, ham and chicken.
Dice the water chestnuts.
Remove the bitter hearts of the lotus seedpods.
Season oil with scallion and ginger, drop in the sea cucumber slices and slightly stir-fry, pour in chicken soup, transfer to a bowl.
Stew the mushrooms and ham in chicken soup till done, pour over the sea cucumbers and steam for an hour, keep the soup, transfer the sea cucumbers to a plate.
Add seasonings to the soup, bring to the boil, thicken, pour over the sea cucumbers.

Eight Delicacies Orange Cups

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Preparations:

Wash the oranges, cut off the tops in a zig-zag pattern, take out the orange pulp to make an orange cup.
Finely dice the mushrooms, bamboo shoots, water chestnuts, ham and chicken breast.
Depistil the lotus seeds and steam cook.
Peel and finely dice the shelled walnuts.
Boil the green soybeans till flavored in soup stock.
Season the chicken dices and stir cook in 6 fold hot oil.
Mix together the ingredients and spoon into the orange cups, steam cook.

Jade-Belt Fish Rolls

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Preparations:

Cut the fish into 30 slices.
Shred the ham, dried mushrooms, and bamboo shoots.
Sprinkle salt onto the fish slices and coat with flour on both sides, cover with shredded ham, dried mushrooms, bamboo shoots, ginger and scallion, roll into fish rolls, steam for 5 minutes, place on palm leaves on a plate.
Season oil with chopped scallion and minced ginger, pour in chicken soup and seasonings, bring to the boil, thicken, pour over the fish rolls, sprinkle with pepper.

Chicken Slices with Golden-needle Mushrooms

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Preparations:

Cut the ckicken meat into pieces, add egg white, salt and cornstarch, stir evenly.
Cut the mushrooms into short lengths, scald in clear soup, and let to dry.
Scald the chicken pieces and mushrooms, quickly saute, add dondiments and thicken with cornstarch solution.

Scallop Balls

Materials:

Preparations:

Finely chop the squids, add condiments, stir evenly.
Cut the mushrooms, shrimps and water chestnuts into shreds, add to the squid mash and squeeze into balls.
Soak the scallops for 30 minutes, remove to a soup plate, add cooking wine, scallion and ginger, steam for 30 minutes, let cool, cut into strips.
Roll the squid balls in the scallop strips, steam for 10 minutes.
Boil chicken stock with MSG and salt, chicken with cornstarch and pour over the scallop balls.