CNY Recipes Made from Edible Birds Nest

CNY Recipes Made from Edible Birds Nest

Chinese New Year is not only about red envelope. It is more likely about spending time and gathering with family, which reunion dinner is one of the most important events in CNY tradition. After reading about Why Edible Birds Nest Turns to Be the Best Gift for CNY, it would be also a great idea to serve Edible Birds Nest as CNY dishes for reunion dinner. Here are some CNY recipes made from Edible Birds Nest.

Stewed Edible Birds Nest with Abalone and Chicken

Ingredients:
- 113 g superior Edible Birds Nest, soaked until soft and stewed
- 113 g abalone
- 1 spring chicken
- 113 g lean pork
- 6 cups stock
- 13 g ham, sliced
- 2 slices of ginger
- Salt
Instructions:
1. Cook abalone for 10 minutes in boiling water. Turn off the stove and cover it for 30 minutes.
2. Take out the abalone, wash and rub with warm water.
3. Cook ginger and spring onion in boiling water for a while. Add shaoxing wine and abalone, cook for 5 minutes. Take out the abalone
4. Put abalone with hot stock in a stewing pot, and stew over the low heat for 1 hour.
5. Wash the chicken and lean pork together. Parboil and rinse.
6. Transfer to the stewing pot where abalone and stocks inside. Add ham and ginger, then stew for 3 hours till abalone is soft.
7. Add Edible Birds Nest and stew for 10 minutes.
8. Taste it before adding salt, if needed.

Edible Birds Nest in Winter Melon

Ingredients:
- 150 g superior Edible Birds Nest, soaked until soft and stewed
- 3 kg winter melon
- 75 g dried lotus seeds
- 113 g chicken
- 113 g crab meat
- 38 g ham
- 4 cups of stock
- Salt
Marinate:
- ¼ tsp salt
- ½ tsp caltrop starch
- 1 tbsp water
Instructions:
1. Wash the surface of winter melon.
2. Scoop out the seeds, pith with metal spoon, and parboil in boiling water. Take out, rinse, and drain them.
3. Wash dried lotus seeds, soak it until soft.
4. Slice half of the ham, shred the rest.
5. Dice chicken, marinate it and parboil.
6. Put winter melon in a deep bowl. Add dried lotus seeds, ham slices, add stock to the winter melon, and stew for 1 hour.
7. Add chicken, Edible Birds Nest, and crab meat. Stew for another 20 minutes.
8. Season with salt, and sprinkle with ham shreds.
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