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Steamed Chicken Custard Soup
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Tang Deh
“This was a standard in our family,” say Gene Young, a true mensch and an adept editor. Her mother, Mrs. Juliana Koo, who is 89 as I write, still prepares this when the family comes to visit. “It is a Shanghai dish that we ate for comfort,” Gene Young says. The chopped clam is optional but lends a stylish zing to this soup, which is served in the bowl in which it was steamed. A Chinese rice or soup bowl with about ¾ cup capacity is the most suitable for this, but standard custard cups that hold about ½ cup are also fine; just use 2 for each serving.
Ingredients
For each serving:
- 1 or 2 shucked and chopped cherrystone clams, with juice (optional)
- 1 egg
- ¾ cup slightly warm Basic Asian Chicken Soup
- ½ to 1 teaspoon soy sauce
For the garnish:
- Green and white portions of 1 small scallion, finely minced
Directions
If you are using clams, put pieces and juice in the bottom of the soup bowl. In a small mixing bowl, beat egg with a fork until it is thin and frothy. Add chicken soup and soy sauce and beat again until frothy. Pour over clam in bowl, filling bowl to about ½ inch from the rim.
Place bowl, uncovered, in a Chinese bamboo steamer set over a wok half full of boiling water, or on a pierced metal vegetable steamer over boiling water. If you have neither, set bowl in a saucepan and add enough boiling water to come halfway up the sides of the bowl. Cover steamer or saucepan and steam for 6 to 8 minutes, or until egg sets in a creamy cap. (The steamer results in an airier custard.) Sprinkle with scallions and serve immediately.
If you prepare more than 1 bowl at a time, allow a little more time for steaming.
© 1995 by Mimi Sheraton
Note from Cookstr's Editors
Nutritional information is based on 1 serving, 1 cherrystone clam, 1/2 teaspoon of soy sauce, but does not include Basic Asian Chicken Soup. For nutritional information on Basic Asian Chicken Soup, please follow the link above.
Nutritional Information
Nutrients per serving
90 kcal
4 % daily value
6 % daily value
3 % daily value
150 mg
10 mg
9 g
1 g
0 g
1 g
218 mg
250 mg
2 g
5 g
21 % daily value
