Stewed Bird's nest with American Ginseng
Ingredients :75 g soaked bird's nest pieces
8 g sliced American ginseng
1 tbsp rock sugar
2 cups boiling water
Method :
Wash American ginseng. Put into a steaming pot. Add crushed water. Stew over boiling water for 50 minutes. Add bird's nest pieces and stew for 10 minutes. Serve. Refrigerate before serving in summer. It can nourish and revitalize your strength.
Stewed Bird's nest with Rock Sugar
Ingredients :
113 g soaked superior bird's nest113 g rock sugar3 1/2 cups water
Method :
1. Wash rock sugar. Bring 3 1/2 cups of water to the boil. Add rock sugar. Cook over low heat until the sugar has melted. Strain.
2. Pour syrup until steaming pot. Stew for 20 minutes. Add bird's nest. Then stew for 10 minutes. Serve.
Bird's nest & Gingkoes Syrup
Ingredients :
113 g soaked superior bird's nest
75 g gingkoes2 red dates
94 g rock sugar4 cups water
Method :
1. Remove shells from gingkues. Soak in boiling water for s while. Remove membrane and stalks. Wash red dates and remove pits. Then put red dates and gingkues into a pot. Add 4 cups of water. Cook for 30 minutes.
2. Rinse rock sugar. Add into red dates and gingkoes water. Cook until rock sugar has dissloved. Put in bird's nest. Then cook over low heat for 5 to 10 minutes. Serve. (stir while cooking so that the ingredients will not stick to the bottom of the pot.)
Bird's nest soup
Ingredients :
15 g Superior bird's nest
2 dried black mushroomssuitable amount of egg yolk shredssuitable amount of ham shreds
3 cup stock
Method :
1. Wash bird's nest. Soak until tender. Tear and wash. Drain. Put into a large bowl.
2. Soak mushrooms until tender. Wash. Cut into shreds. Arrange mushroom top of the bird's nest. Pour into stock. Cover with lid. stewed over boiling water for 40 minutes. Serve hot.
Bird's nest,Crab Meat & Winter Melon Soup
113 g Superior bird's nest
450 g winter melon
38 crab meat
2 cups stock
1 egg white
1 slice ginger
Seasoning :
1/3 tsp salt
1 tsp caltrop starch
2 tbsp stock
Method :
1. Drain bird's nest. Remove pell from winter melon. Then remove pith and cut into pieces.
2. Bring stock to the boil. Add ginger slice and winter melon. Cook for 10 minutes. Then cover for 10 more minutes. Discard ginger slice. Add winter melon into the blender. Process into winter melon puree.
3. Add bird's nest into winter melon puree and bring to the boil. Stir in crab meat, seasoning and egg white. Serve.
Stewed bird’s nest with chicken
Ingredients:
15g of natural, pure bird's nest,
half a chicken,
12g of longan pulp and
2 slices of ginger
Method:
1. Other than the bird's nest, all ingredients should be added to a suitable amount of filtered water with some salt and stewed for 3 hours.
2. Add in the natural, pure bird's nest after 45 minutes and it is ready to be served. Ideal for nourishment and strengthening physique.
Bird’s nest stewed with pear
Ingredients:
Use 2 to 3 pieces of natural, pure bird’s nest (approximately 25g)
1 pear with skin and core removed
Rock sugar to taste
Method:
1. Place the ingredients into a stew pot and add suitable amount of filtered water before stewing for approximately 45 minutes. It is most suitable to use house bird's nest which only requires 45 minutes to stew.
2. Add rock sugar to taste. The pear turns sour if it is stewed for too long while the bird’s nest has to be stewed for 2-4 hours. This will ensure the pear does not turn sour.
3. It is effective in relieving cough and nourishing the lungs. Coughs can be stopped after three to four servings
