Moo Shu Style Vegetable Pancakes With Watercress Salad And Mung Bean Sprouts Recipes

VEGETABLE MOO SHU

Steps:

• Stir together the light soy sauce, sesame oil, hoisin sauce, white pepper, and salt, and set aside.
• Heat your wok over high heat with ½ tablespoon oil. Stir-fry the julienned carrots for 90 seconds, remove, and set aside. Using the same method, with ½ tablespoon oil each--cook the spiced tofu, celery, red bell pepper, and shiitake mushrooms separately, and set those aside.
• Next, heat the wok over high heat with the remaining tablespoon of oil, and add the minced garlic and leeks.
• Stir fry the vegetables until the leeks are just wilted (about 2 minutes), and add the carrots, five-spiced tofu, celery, bell pepper, and mushrooms back to the wok.
• Spread the Shaoxing wine around the perimeter of the wok, and add the sauce mixture we prepared earlier. Stir-fry everything together for another minute.
• Serve immediately with steamed Mandarin pancakes and hoisin sauce on the side!

MOO SHU PORK POCKETS

Steps:

• Combine the pork, cabbage, cayenne pepper, garlic, gingersnap cookies, and soy sauce in a bowl. Form mixture into patties. Heat a large, nonstick skillet over medium high heat. Add wok or vegetable oil to the pan. Cook patties 7 minutes on each side.
• Heat tortillas on a nonstick surface over high heat for 30 seconds on each side. Paint the tortillas with hoisin sauce, leaving a 1-inch rim from edge. Pile shredded mixed veggies in center of tortilla and top with cooked pork patty. Fold the tortilla up on all four sides and wrap burger in a square package. Invert pork pocket and cut on diagonal. Serve pockets with jasmine rice sundaes and cucumber salad.
• Scoop prepared jasmine rice onto dinner plates using an ice cream scoop. Top with duck sauce and toasted sesame seed "sprinkles". This is a great use for those packets of leftover duck sauce that clutter up your junk drawers in the kitchen and kids love the look of the technique.
• Spread cucumber slices in a thin layer on double-ply paper towels. Roll paper towels up to squeeze water from sliced cucumbers. Transfer sliced cucumbers to a bowl and toss with sliced peppers.
• Combine remaining ingredients in a small plastic container and shake until sugar dissolves, about 1 minute. Pour the dressing over the cucumbers, toss, and serve.

MUNG BEAN THREAD SALAD

Steps:

• Place the cilantro, garlic and chile in a mortar and grind to a paste, or use a blender. Transfer this mixture to a saucepan, and add the vinegar, sugar and salt. Heat to a boil, remove from the heat and cool. Set aside.
• Cut the soaked noodles into 3-inch lengths. Mix the noodles, prawns, onions and celery together in a bowl. Pour the dressing over the top and toss gently to coat. Add the tomato, and shrimps and gently toss again.
• Serve on lettuce leaves with cilantro leaves garnishing the top.

BEAN SPROUT SALAD WITH WARM SHIITAKES, CHINESE CHIVES AND CHINESE HAM VINAIGRETTE

Steps:

• In a hot saute pan, coat with a little olive oil, and saute the shiitakes and shallots until soft, about 3 minutes. Add the chives, and ham and stir. Deglaze with both vinegars and season. Whisk in the oil, add mustard, check for seasoning and bring back to temperature. Drizzle on top of the bean sprouts to wilt. Mix well and verify seasoning.
• PLATING Mold the salad in o-rings and drizzle with leftover vinaigrette.
• Wine Recommendation: Cloudy Bay, Sauvignon Blanc, Marlborough New Zealand, 1998

MOO SHU STYLE VEGETABLE PANCAKES WITH WATERCRESS SALAD AND MUNG BEAN SPROUTS

Steps:

• Beat the eggs and add the milk, water and oil. Whisk in flour and strain through a fine mesh sieve. Add remaining ingredients and refrigerate for at least 1/2 hour.
• Separate the broccoli into florets. Heat both oils together over a high heat and char the broccoli for approximately 4 to 5 minutes. Add remaining ingredients, ensuring that the hoisin sauce is the last, and stir fry for 30 seconds. Remove from heat and set aside.
• Coat a nonstick 12 inch skillet with vegetable oil and put over a low flame. Ladle 1 ounce of crepe batter into skillet and tilt to spread to the edges of the pan. When surface is dry, remove the crepe and repeat this process to make 8 crepes.
• Fill the crepes and roll them. Brown the crepes in a nonstick skillet, on all sides, adding a few drops of canola oil as necessary.
• Toss salad ingredients together. Arrange 2 crepes on each plate and top with salad.

MOO SHU PANCAKES

Steps:

• Mix the salt into the flour with a fork. Pile the flour onto a clean counter and make a well in it with your fingers. Pour the oil into the well, followed by about half of the hot water. Mix the flour into the water and make into a dough, adding a little water at a time until you have a damp dough. Knead the dough for a bout 10 minutes or until smooth.
• Divide the dough into 18- 20 balls of about equal size. Flatten and roll them out into discs about 2-3 inches in diameter. Brush the tops of half of these with a little oil and place the other half of these on top. Dust with a little flour and roll out into thin pizza like circles about 6-8 inches across. Stack with waxed paper in between the pancakes.
• Heat a griddle or large ungreased skillet over medium-low heat. cook one at a time turning often until bubbles begin to form in the dough. Do not brown! With the tip of a knife seperate the pancake into two and place on a warm plate covered with a clean dampened towel mositened with hot water. Continue doing this until all the pancakes are done. Enjoy with Toni's Moo Shu Vegetables!

MOO SHU VEGETABLES WITH CHINESE PANCAKES

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 325 F degrees.
• Wrap pancakes in foil and place in oven to warm, about 8 minutes.
• Heat sesame oil in a wok or large skillet until very hot.
• Add green onions, bok choy, red bell pepper, carrots and mushrooms.
• Stir-fry vegetables 3 to 4 minutes until crisp tender.
• Add sprouts, tofu, ginger and garlic and continue cooking 2 to 3 minutes until sprouts are soft.
• Stir in tamari and extra hoisin sauce.
• To eat, drizzle a spoonful of hoisin sauce across center of pancake.
• Top with generous helping of vegetables and roll up burrito style.