Fish Maw Soup

Fishy...yum

Happy Funday everyone!

Newton has been sick the last few days so I haven't been able to post much. Last night he asked me to pick up some fish maw soup from a local Chinese restaurant on my way home. After realizing how much I paid for so little soup I got I decided to try to make this for him this morning. I searched high and low for a yummy looking recipe online but results came up short so I just winged it. The results is pretty tasty and with a little experimenting, it's was great. So lets get right into it:

Chopped Shrimp:


Boiling fish maw


Added 'shrooms:


Added egg:


Enjoy:


RECIPE:

4 cans of chicken broth2 cans of water (empty chicken broth can)2 large pieces of fish maw (re-hydrated in warm water for 15 min)2 eggs1/2 lbs. shrimp peeled and chopped1 jar of crab meat1 can of straw mushrooms or whatever kind you like.

INSTRUCTIONS:

Soak dried fish maw in a bowl with warm water for 20 minutes or until softened then rinse and wring out water and re-soak with clean water. Do this until you like the texture and taste of fish maw then chop into small pieces. NOTE: the more you wring out the water the less fishy it will taste. In a pot, combine chicken broth and water and bring to a boil then add fish maw and reduce to medium heat. In a smaller pot fill with enough water to boil chopped shrimp. Add shrimp and boil until 90% cooked and drain. Add the shrimp to large pot with fish maw. Open and drain the can of crab meat as well as mushrooms and add them to the large pot as well. Season with salt and pepper to taste and then add mushrooms. Leave it at a high simmer while in a small bowl combine 1 tbsp of cornstarch with two 2 tbsp of COOL - COLD water. NO HOT WATER! It will gelatize the starch! Slowly add this mixture to the large pot. Repeat cornstarch mix until soup is at the consistency you like. Lastly beat the eggs and while slowing stirring soup in a circular motion add in egg to create ribbons. Be careful of over seasoning the soup because the fish maw is loaded with tons of flavor so no need to use the shrimp water or crab juice, it can get very seafoody.

THATS it! Simple right? Just bowl it and enjoy with some ground white pepper on top.