Snake soup— Chinese food recipe

Snake soup

The snake soup (Cantonese: 蛇羹, Pinyin: she geng) is a popular Chinese food delicacy and health supplement in China, which contains the meats of at least two types of snakes as the main ingredients.

To warm winter (13 ° C min ..) in China, the locals eat a soup that is not found among most of western people.

Maybe you’d feel like a local chicken soup or a bowl of pasta to warm your stomach, though in Hong Kong, you can not miss the traditional soup of snakes seen by many as a dish refined.

In many Hong Kong stores you can find a snake soup made of snakes imported directly from China already chopped and frozen. This is not ideal and if you need a little in the city, you can have it fresh! There are even some restaurants where you choose your snake behind glass and then enjoy the animal.

Healthy soup in China

Snake meat, once stripped of its skin, is as of the fish meat with a pale pink color. Then lightly cooked in boiling water, the skin becomes pale white and can be likened to chicken.

Those who have tested this traditional soup also often agree to say that it tastes similar to chicken!

The Chinese have many beliefs about snakes and especially that it is an animal that has many healing properties and is therefore good for you to eat a good snake soup. The snake would help eliminate muscle pains for example … TBC;)

Did you ever try this healthy soup in China? Other exotic foods?

Ingredients

– 150 g of snake meat

– 1 egg

– 50 g of dried mushrooms

– 30 g white mushrooms

– 100 g dried pasta

– 1 tablespoon soy sauce

– 1 tablespoon rice wine

– 1 tablespoon sesame oil coffee

– Dried orange peel

– salt

– sugar

– pepper

– ginger

– chives

Preparation

1 / Clean killed snake.

2 / Put it in boiling water, then add the chives, ginger and rice wine and heat for half an hour to tenderize meat.

2 / Make snake meat and tear it to shreds. Cook only with steam for 2 hours.

3 / Put the snake meat scraps, seasonings already used, mushrooms and dried pasta in a pot. Heat to boiling, then remove the foam.

4 / Add the orange peel, salt and pepper and spoons sesame oil and soy sauce and serve hot.

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