Steps to Prepare Quick 15 Minute Meal: 'Happosai' Eight Treasure Stir-fry & Chinese Rice Bowl

15 Minute Meal: 'Happosai' Eight Treasure Stir-fry & Chinese Rice Bowl. Stir-fry the pork, then add the rest of the ingredients. Add less water than the volume of the vegetables, and bring it to a boil. Add the Chinese soup stock, season with salt (or soy sauce), and thicken the sauce with the katakuriko slurry.

Add the Chinese soup stock, season with salt (or soy sauce), and thicken the sauce with the katakuriko slurry. A very popular Chinese dish, Happosai (Combination Stir Fry) is not modified very much from the original Chinese version. It is made with lots of vegetables, meat and seafood coated with a thick flavoursome sauce. You can have 15 Minute Meal: 'Happosai' Eight Treasure Stir-fry & Chinese Rice Bowl using 13 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of 15 Minute Meal: 'Happosai' Eight Treasure Stir-fry & Chinese Rice Bowl

1. You need 3 of leaves Chinese cabbage.
2. You need 30 grams of Carrot.
3. Prepare 80 grams of Thinly sliced pork.
4. Prepare 1 of Prawns, squid.
5. It's 1 of Bamboo shoots, Japanese leek, shiitake mushrooms, wood ear mushrooms.
6. It's 1 of Green vegetables (snow peas, etc.).
7. Prepare 1 of Quail eggs, naruto, etc..
8. You need 1 of Ginger (julienned).
9. You need 2 tbsp of dissolved in 2 tablespoons of water Katakuriko.
10. It's 200 ml of Water (adjust it depending on the vegetables).
11. You need 1 1/2 tbsp of Chinese soup stock.
12. You need 1 dash of Salt (or soy sauce).
13. It's 2 tbsp of Oil for stir-frying (sesame oil is the best).

By parboiling the hard, white stems of the Chinese cabbage and carrot, you can shorten the cooking time, and stir-fried vegetables turn out nice and crispy. My favorite dish with quail egg is "Happosai", literally meaning eight treasure stir fry. It is stir fry with lots of lots of different kinds of vegetables. Basically, you can add any vegetables, meat or shell fish and add the sauce at the end.

15 Minute Meal: 'Happosai' Eight Treasure Stir-fry & Chinese Rice Bowl step by step

1. Lightly parboil the hard, white stems of the Chinese cabbage, and carrot (or microwave them). Dissolve the katakuriko in water to make katakuriko slurry, and set aside..
2. The photo shows the parboiled Chinese cabbage and carrot, and Chinese cabbage leaves..
3. These are the rest of the vegetables, and other ingredients. (The prawns and squid are not shown in this photo, but I added them later.).
4. Stir-fry the ginger in 2 tablespoons of sesame oil..
5. Stir-fry the pork, then add the rest of the ingredients. You have parboiled the vegetables that take longer to cook in Step 1, so don't overcook them..
6. Add less water than the volume of the vegetables, and bring it to a boil. Add the Chinese soup stock, season with salt (or soy sauce), and thicken the sauce with the katakuriko slurry. And it's done..
7. Addendum 1: Rehydrate dried wakame seaweed. Combine it with sesame oil, soy sauce, Japanese leek, and sesame seeds. Make a bowl of soup with Chinese soup stock, and add the wakame mixture to make wakame soup..
8. Addendum 2: Divide julienned ginger and thinly sliced ginger into small portions, cover with cling film, and keep them in the freezer. They will come in handy since you can use the thinly sliced ginger to make simmered fish, and you can use the julienned ginger to make this dish..

I am sure each family has their own recipe. This Spicy Eight Treasures Stir fry is another everyday home cooking dish from the old days in Shanghai. Stir in cilantro and sesame oil. Add the soaked black mushrooms, bean sprouts and sauté for another minute. Add the parboiled vegetables and salt and stir fry over a high flame for a few minutes.