Plum Appetizer Plate Recipe
Cold Dishes Recipes

Ingredients:

1/3 lb
1/3 lb
1/3 lb
1/4
12
3 c
1/4 t
1
1/2
1
12
1/3
6
1
2
1
1
 

roast chicken
stewed duck breasts
broiled pork
ham
shrimps
oil
salt
dried black mushroom
tomato
boiled egg (duck)
pieces asparagus (can)
stewed pig tripe
cherries
chemical egg
green peas
spring parsley
carved flower radish

Directions:

1. Cut roast chicken and stewed duck.

2. Slice broiled pork, and most of ham. Carve the remaining part of ham into the shape of a butterfly.

3. Remove the legs and whiskers of shrimps. Fry in hot oil. Remove and add 1/4 t salt.

4. Soak a mushroom in warm water, steam then cut it into shape of crab.

5. Carve tomato into lotus-flower shape.

6. Carve the boiled egg and chemical egg into shape of chrysanthemum flower.

Setting and Garnish:

1. Arrange the asparagus into a six-pointed star figure in the plate.

2. Put roast chicken, stewed duck, broiled pork, ham, shrimps, stewed pig tripe within the star figure. Place the cherries in the centre.

3. Garnish with tomato, ham (butterfly-shaped piece), chemical egg, boiled egg, mushroom and put two green peas as the eyes of the crab.