1,Chicken soup, and century eggs (also called lime-preserved eggs)
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have bold flavor and savory aroma, so this dish will be delicious without adding any MSG. (though If you are using water instead of chicken soup, then you can put some MSG to enhance flavor)
2, Century eggs can be added at the last stage of the cooking, this way century eggs natural delicate flavor will be stronger.
3, A word of caution, amaranth and turtle meat cannot be eaten together, and century eggs will create unhealthy combination of foods with the following items: turtle, plum, brown sugar. So do not put any turtle, plum, brown sugar in this dish.
4, Amaranth has high nutritional value and rich in vitamin C, so avoid long cooking time, and had better close the lid during cooking, to prevent nutrition from being destroyed.
Please follow the detailed steps below to cook amaranth soup with century eggs:
Ingredients: green amaranth 500 gram, century egg 1
Seasoning: oil, garlic (white) 2 cloves, a bowl of chicken soup (use water + MSG if you don’t have chicken soup), some Salt
Wash clean the amaranth, remove old roots, then halve the vegetable with your hands (keep roots and leaves separately);
Skin the garlic cloves and crush them;
Remove the shell from the century egg, and crush the egg into small chunks and pieces with the spine of the kitchen knife, or you may cut the egg into wedge-like shape pieces (think lemon wedge) for visual appeal (apply some vinegar in knife to avoid yolk stick to the blade of the knife);
Heat oil in a wok over medium-high heat until the oil shimmers;
Add garlic, stir fry it until it gives good aroma with medium heat;
Turn to high heat, and add amaranth roots and stir fry for a while, then add amaranth leaves and continue stir fry;
Add chicken soup, then century egg, close the lid, cook it with medium heat;
The dish is cooked and ready for serve when you see amaranth is well-done and soft, and you smell the aroma of tasty century egg.
莧菜皮蛋湯
莧菜皮蛋湯