Chi中 Eng英 Chinese Dishes - Crabmeat thick soup with vegetables and snow frog jelly
Ingredient - 2 crabs
- 6 tomatoes
- 60g broccoli
- 1 egg white
- 3 tbsps water chestnut flour (mixed well with water)
- 1/2 cup water
- sliced ginger
- 1 cherry tomato (for garnish)
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Seasoning- Salt, pepper, sesame oil as desired
Method- Wash and dress the crabs. Cut them into pieces. Steam 1 crab. Pick the crabmeat and save the shell for later use.
- Dice the broccoli. Cut 5 tomatoes into chunks. Seed the remaining tomato and dice it.
- Boil 6 cups of water. Put in the crab shell from step 1, with the remaining raw crab, tomato chunks and sliced ginger. Boil for 1 hour. Strain the soup. Cook until it reduces to 4 cups.
- Bring the soup to the boil and add diced tomato and broccoli. Bring to the boil again. Stir in water chestnut flour solution and cook until it thickens. Add seasoning.
- Finally put in the crabmeat (from step 1) and stir in the egg white. Garnish with a cherry tomato. Serve.