recipe: Bird's Nest Soup, A Chinese Cuisine Options

[BeyondElite]

This is one of my favorite ...

成份 (Ingredients):
1-3/4 ounces cleaned bird's nest (See Note Below)
2 cups water
2 slices fresh ginger, each the size of a 25-cent piece
4 cups Chinese chicken Soup Stock (see recipe below)
2 tablespoons cornstarch mixed with 2 tablespoons water
salt
2 eggs, beaten
ham, cut julienne, very fine, for garnish

做法 (Procedure):
Soak the bird's nest overnight in fresh water. Using a fine mesh
strainer drain and rinse the nest. Place in a saucepan and add 2
cups of water and the ginger slices. Simmer for 5 minutes and
drain in the strainer, discarding the ginger. Pick out any impurities
and add to the soup stock and simmer for 1/2 hour.

Stir in the cornstarch mixed with water and cook to thicken. Add
salt to taste and pour the beaten eggs in a thin stream over the
top of the soup. Count to ten and gently stir the eggs into the
soup. The shredded-ham garnish will go nicely on the top of this
very delicately flavored soup.

筆記 (Note):
A good Chinese market should have nests available (or perhaps they
will order for you), but they are very expensive. The cost for
enough nest to make two batches of this soup will be somewhere
between $30 and $40.

Adapted From:
Recipe Cottage

[lilnatcat]

Oooooooo....................birds nest!! I love this stuff!!!!! It also makes ur skin prettier too~ *drools*

[demolished]

wow, you have a very intresting ingredients and instructions. i like that. very educational and internationl thing to read. i never ate those stuf before even tho i'm chinese, my mom never made these before.

[Skyline Drive]

I'd eat it if I could find someone to make it for me.. heh. I should find a restaurant that sells it

[sw33t_rouge]

i just ate one in a bottle! it was soo sweet ><

[sheepy]

yum yum they're so gooooood ::drools::

[*basick*]

oh man that stuff is good but the real ish is expensive as hell

[toodlepops.]

never really tried it..but i heard its supppose to be very healthy?

[MzShortieAlli]

omg i love it soo much my dad used to make it wen my grandma was sick and he would let me have the leftovers! it tastes goood

[royalfreshness]

Are you serious... Hmm.. That's interesting with the bird's nest. I don't like ginger so I guess I woudln't try it :P.

[sammehmyst]

Personally, I think it sounds pretty bad-tasting.

I guess I'm different though.

[*salcha*]

ooh this stuff is sooo good!! i only had it a couple times, and im chinese

[gladz612]

my mom makes that for me almost every week when i use to be in HK... cuz it's apparantly really good for u. now i just drink isntant ones from a little glass bottle.. it's very good for your skin cuz it's high in protein.