Chinese Rice Recipes - Soupy Rice with Sole Recipe

Ingredients

• 2 tablespoons round rice, well washed

• 1 piece dried tangerine peel (1 inch in diameter)

• 1 slice fresh ginger

• 2 pints (U.S. 5 cups) boiling water

• peanut oil

• fillets 1 small sole

• 1 teaspoon corn-flour

• pinch each salt and Ve-Tsin (M.S.G.)

• 1 dessertspoon beaten egg

• 1/2 teaspoon ginger sherry

• 1 oz. rice noodles

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Method:

1. Turn rice into 3-pint saucepan. Add peel, ginger, water and 2 teaspoons peanut oil. Cook gently for 3 hours, stirring occasionally.

2. Cut sole diagonally into thin slices. Place in bowl with corn-flour, seasonings, beaten egg and sherry; work the mixture into them.

3. When cooked, remove peel and ginger from rice add sole; cook for 2 minutes. Put noodles into hot deep oil for 1/2 minute, keeping them submerged with a shallow ladle.

4. Divide the 'soupy' rice into 2-3 bowls. Sprinkle the lightly crushed rice noodles over soup and serve.