Imitation Chicken Rolls

Vegetables, also Vegetarian Foods

Imitation Chicken Rolls
Ingredients:
1 large sheet dried bean curd, cut into five-inch squares
5 soaked then shredded Chinese black mushrooms, water squeezed out
5 thin white needle mushrooms, minced
3 Tablespoons shredded bamboo shoots
½ cup all-purpose flour
½ teaspoon baking powder
1 Tablespoon cornstarch
1 Tablespoon each shredded green bell pepper and canned pineapple
½ cup vegetable oil
Seasoning mixtures can include one of the following:
a) 1 Tablespoon each, white vinegar and soy sauce
b) ½ teaspoon each, sugar and salt;
c) ½ teaspoon each, ground white pepper and sesame oil

Preparation:
1. Dry-fry shredded mushrooms mixed with the needle mushrooms, shredded bamboo shoots and shredded pineapple, then roll some of this mixture into one bean curd sheet.
2. Seal it with a little flour paste made mixing the flour, baking powder, cornstarch and two tablespoon of water; and mix spices into this mixture.
3. Mix a) b) or c) with shredded items and roll into the bean curd sheets.
4. Heat the oil in a small pot and deep fry these rolls until almost crisp, drain them on paper towels, and cut each into four pieces, some on an angle.
5. Stand those cut on an angle and put others flat on a small platter, the angle-cut ones in its center, and serve.

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