Eight Treasures Stir-fry

Name: How to cook Eight Treasures Stir-fry - cookcic.com
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 30 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Us

Introduce

Chef :

Hiroko Liston

Eight Treasures Stir-fry

This is a very popular stir-fry dish in Japan. It’s a dish consisting of vegetables, pork, prawns, squid, etc. stir-fried and thickened with potato starch. The dish is called ‘Happō-sai’ in Japanese and that means ‘Eight Treasure Ingredients’ as the number eight is the lucky number in our culture. This is my family’s recipe which I always determine to use eight main ingredients.

Ingredient

Food ration :

4 servings

1/4

Wombok

Carrot

10 cm

Daikon Radish

Shiitake

100 g

Bamboo Shoots

250-300 g

Pork Belly *thinly sliced

1/2

Squid

Prawns

2 tablespoons

Potato Starch

2 tablespoons

Water

1 tablespoon

Sesame Oil

1 tablespoon

Rice Vinegar

1 cup

Chicken Stock *OR 1 cup Water & 1 teaspoon Asian Chicken Bouillon Powder

small piece Ginger *grated

1/2-1 teaspoon

Salt

1 tablespoon

Mirin

1/2 tablespoon

Soy Sauce

Cooking instructions

* Step 1

Place the Soup ingredients in a bowl and mix well. Check the flavour and adjust it to suit your taste.

* Step 2

Place Potato Starch and Water in a small bowl or cup and mix well.

* Step 3

All main ingredients should be cut or sliced to small pieces if large, so that it would be easy to eat.

* Step 4

Heat Sesame Oil in a large frying pan or wok over high heat, cook Pork and Vegetables for a few minutes, then add Squid, Prawns and Shiitake (or other mushrooms).

* Step 5

Add the soup and cook a few more minutes until vegetables are cooked.

* Step 6

Stir the Potato Starch mixture once again, then add it to the stir-fry a small amount at a time, stirring well, until the soup is thickened. *Note: You probably don’t need to use all the starch mixture.