Chinese Meats Recipes - Frog's Leg Recipe

Ingredients

• 3 teaspoons dry white wine

• 10 frog's legs

• 3 tablespoons peanut oil

• 1 Chinese mushroom soaked 1 hour, thinly diced

• 1 tablespoon green sweet pepper, diced

• 1 tablespoon canned bamboo shoots, diced

• 1 tablespoon spring onion, cut in strips

• 1 clove garlic finely chopped

• 1 small teaspoon fresh ginger, finely chopped

• 1 tablespoon chicken stock

• good pinch Ve-Tsin (M.S.G.)

• tiny pinch salt

• 1 teaspoon corn-flour

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Method:

1. Work 1 teaspoon wine into the frog's legs and then the corn-flour and leave aside. Have ready the remaining ingredients and arrange in little heaps on a longish plate.

2. Heat till very hot the peanut oil in the frying-pan. Add the frog's legs, toss and shake over high heat for 2-3 minutes, then add the mushroom, sweet green pepper and bamboo shoots tossing and shaking them. Drain on a sieve.

3. Add the onion, garlic and ginger to the pan without adding any more oil. Then the chicken stock, Ve-Tsin, the salt, the rest of the dry white wine and cook for 1/2 minute.

4. Return the frog's legs and vegetables to the pan. Heat through 1/2 minute and serve.