Chap Choy (Stewed Vegetables)

Hmmm... this is usually served on the 1st day of CNY in my family... But we do have this quite often.










Ingredients:
10 dried flower mushrooms (Hua ku), soaked overnight
A handful of Dried Lily buds, soaked and knotted
A handful of Dried black fungus, soaked and cleaned
3 sticks of dried bean curb sticks
8 Tau Pok
A handful of Fatt Choy (I prefer tang hoon)
1 can straw mushrooms
1 can button mushrooms
Tim Chok (A flat type of dried bean curd)
Cabbage, cut into 2 inch squares

Pounded ingredients:
6 shallots
4 garlic
Tau Cheo (Bean Paste)

Method:

1. Lightly fry tim chok. Remove and set aside.
2. Add onion and garlic. Fry until fragrant.
3. Add Mushroom. Fry for 10 minutes. Add pounded ingredients.
4. Add water and simmer for 3 hours. Or if using a pressure cooker.... pressure cook for 20 minutes.
5. Add lily buds, tim chok, tau pok and mushrooms.
6. Lastly add black fungus, fatt choy/tang hoon and cabbage.
7. Simmer until cabbage is cooked.