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Vegetarian kungpao

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Clockwise from top : vegetarian kidney, ginger, spring onion, dried chillies, onion and capsicum

Over at the Flickr group, we share some recipes once in a while. It is rather fun because the members come from all over the world and we learn something new about each other foods.

Few days ago, we discussed about kungpao, which is a spicy Szechuan recipe. The above is a photo of the raw ingredients. This is a very versatile dish because you can substitute the main ingredients with anything you like. I made mine with vegetarian ‘kidney’ which is a mixture of yam powder and konyaku powder.

RECIPE FOR KUNGPAO VEGETARIAN

One onion - quartered
Thumb size ginger - sliced
Two stalks spring onion - Cut the white part and green, separate them
One small capsicum or any type of vege*
5-8 dried chillies (soak in hot water, remove seeds)
300gms of main ingredients ** (choices will be provided later)

Sauce
3 tablespoons thick soya sauce
1 tablespoons light soya sauce
1 tablespoon sugar

Optional (if you have them in your kitchen, use them. Otherwise, it doesn’t matter)

1 teaspoon Shao Hsiang rice wine
1 teaspoon oyster sauce
Few dashes fish sauce

3 tablespoon oil

Method :
Heat oil in wok until smoking hot. Put in onion, ginger, white part of the spring onion and dried chillies. Fry for a while until the whole house is sneezing and the onions begin to brown! Serious, that’s how kungpao stir fry is suppose to cause.

Add in the main ingredients, add the sauce and fry until cooked. Taste and add more sugar if it is to your liking. Just before dishing out, add in capsicum and green leaves of the spring onion. If you like, you can add in cashew nuts (I got mine but my kids finished eating them before cooking)

*Choice of vegetables - You can substitue capsicum with one stalk celery or some cauliflower or any type of vegetable. You may also omit this.

**Choice of main ingredients - Chicken meat cubed, squid rings, soaked brown squid, any type of vegetarian food like vege. prawn, gluten balls, shell fish like mussles or even shark’s meat or any type of firm flesh fish. If using seafood or meats, it is always good to sear them before adding to fry. This will remove all the water. Otherwise, the kungpao will turn ‘watery’ and will not taste as good. Just heat pan and drop the meat/seafood to fry for less than a minute.

fish fish, This is for you!
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Posted by on May 28th, 2005 under Recipe

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No Responses to “Vegetarian kungpao”

  1. fish fish Says:
    May 28th, 2005 at 9:57 pm

    Wah~ so yummy!! I want. I can exchange that with a cup of nissin noodle. :P

  2. p3 Says:
    May 29th, 2005 at 7:16 am

    Look yummy but the vegetarian kidney look like pig’s testicles.hehhe..sure the texture of the kidney will explode in the mouth when u chew on it and heavenly taste of creaminess and saltiness is simply devine…

  3. lilian Says:
    May 29th, 2005 at 8:40 pm

    Gosh P3, is pig’s testicle edible? Hmmm…I haven’t seen it nor heard about it.

    fish fish - Glad you did not miss this posting!

  4. yingci Says:
    May 30th, 2005 at 8:58 am

    Yummilicious! Kung pao - I haven’t had a proper one for ages! Kungpao here can make me cry - tastes almost the same as sweet n sour. And thanks for the recipe - can cook liaw *fist up in the air*

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