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can someone out there please give me a receipe for shark fin soup? george advised me to come here....thanks lynne

Shark fin soup is first of all an exelent double boiled stock made from chicken (old) and pork and Hunan dry ham.
Ingredients for 8
One old chicken
One Kg of pork bones
80 g of Hunan ham
One onion
200 g carottsmn
100 g chinese celery
Blanch first chicken and bone rince and put back in the cooking pot with 4 liters of cold water.
Simmer for 6 to 8 hours.
At this stage you have the choice to use the stock as it is or strain it and reboil with an other chicken and pork bone for 4 more hours.
To finish the shark fin soup you need:
350 g of dried shark fin or
400 g of ready to use shark fin
100 g of chinese dry mushrooms
3 to 5 eggs
Dark soy sauce (color and taste)
Eventualy 200 g chicken breast julienne
80 g Hunan ham julienne
60 to 80 g corn starch
Chinese red vinegar to be served separatly

For dried shark fin: wash and rince boil in water an hour clean and rince again separate the fin and cook in the stock for 3 hours
For chinese mushroom soak in hot water 20 minutes braised for 3 to 4 hour until cooked and cut into julienne.
Finish soup:
Add mushroom julienne, Hunan ham julienne and chicken breast julienne into the soup.
Simmer for 10 minutes.
Att this moment you may add 5 cl of a good chinese wine.
Ajust color and seasoning with dark soy sauce salt and white pepper.
Drop in eggs while boiling (as a stratacheli)
Thicken with corn starch mixed with water up to your taste but to thick is not recomended.
Decorate with chinese parsley leaves and served with chinese vinegar a side
Bon appetit!
Chefluc http://chefsansfrontiere.com

i thought that shark's fin soup wasn't really politically correct these days?