Cold Chayote

Chinese name: 凉拌佛手瓜 (liáng bàn fó shǒu guā)  Characteristics: Cold Chayote tastes fresh, crispy and tender with attractive color.  Cold Chayote is a home-style dish, made mostly from sweet pepper and chayote (vegetable pear). Chayote is a healthy food, containing high protein, calcium, vitamins and minerals but with low heat and sodium. It is said that eating chayote helps build up the body's resistance to diseases and can enhance one's brainpower.

Ingredients: 2 chayotes  1 sweet green pepper  3-4 fresh red chili peppers Preparation: A. Peel the chayote and remove its seeds. Clean and cut it into thin strips.  B. Clean and cut the sweet green pepper into thin strips.  C. Clean and cut the red chili peppers into thin strips.

Seasonings: chopped green onion  chopped ginger  prickly ash seeds  white sugar  chicken essence (chicken stock/bouillon) or monosodium glutamate  salt  white vinegar Note: the amount of the seasonings listed above can be appropriately used according to one's personal taste.

Methods:

Step 1: In a soup bowl or a small basin, mix the chayote, sweet green pepper and red chili pepper strips. Then add in the chopped ginger and green onion.

Step 2: Place a wok over high heat, and add some cooking oil. When the oil is hot, add some prickly ash seeds. Stir it for about 30 seconds until fragrant. Turn off the heat, and strain the prickly ash seeds from the oil through a colander. Pour the oil in the wok onto the vegetables.

Step 3: Add the salt, chicken essence and white sugar and white vinegar. Stir it well with chopsticks and serve.

Enjoy your Cold Chayote.

source:http://www.travelchinaguide.com/tour/food/chinese-cooking/cold-chayote.htm