Chinese Dishes - Large Snakehead Soup with Candied Dates and Watereress

Ingredient 1 large snakehead (450g) 300g lean pork 600g watereress 1/4 dried tangerine peel 6 candied dates 1 slice ginger adequate amount of salt a dash of oil

Method

1. Scale the large snakehead, remove viscera from it, wash it clean it clean and wipe it dry; heating the wok and pouring a dash of oil in, put ginger and large snake head into shallow-fry until light yellow, discard ginger and put the fish into a fish bag to tie up for use.

2. Wash lean pork clean, scald it in boiling water for 5 minutes and rinse it clean.

3. Soak dried tangerine peel until soft and scrape pith away; wash the candied dates clean; wash the watercress clean and pluck it well.

4. Bringing water with dried tangerine peel to boil, put all the ingredients in to boil for 3 hours and salt them for serving.