Lo Han Jai

Chinese New Year dish.

• Ready In: 40 mins
• Serves: 8

Ingredients

• 3  cups water
• 1  piece sugar, Chinese brown slab
• 3  tablespoons dark soy sauce
• 1  cup  dried black fungus, soak and sliced
• 8  small  black mushrooms, soaked
• 1  dried white fungus, soak and cubes
• 12  dried lily buds, soak
• 6  fried tofu, cubes
• 8  stalks napa cabbage, sliced lengthwise
• 1⁄2 cup carrot, sliced
• 1⁄2 cup water chestnut, slice in halves
• 1⁄2 cup  straw mushroom
• 3  cups okra, Chinese, chucks
• 1  fresh lotus root, peel and sliced
•  cornstarch  roux
•  salt
• 1  teaspoon  sesame oil

Directions

1. In a hot wok with water, Chinese brown slab sugar and dark sauce and bring to a boil. Add in black tree-ear fungus, black mushroom, white fugues and fried tofu cubes and return back to a boil and reduce to a simmer for 5 minutes. Add in cabbage, carrot, straw mushroom, okra and lotus root and simmer for 3 minutes longer and thicken with some roux and adjust to taste with sesame oil and salt pour the mixture into a large serving bowl.