Fondues
Welcome your guests with a hot fondue
Slim and Trim Fondue
Ingredients:
5 cups chicken stock
1 tablespoon soy sauce
1/2 teaspoon tabasco sauce
2 cloves garlic, sliced
2 green onions, sliced
10 slices ginger root
1/2 lb sea scallops
1/2 lb large or medium size shrimp
1 cup snow peas
2 small sweet red peppers
1 cup cooked rice
Directions:
1. In medium pot over medium heat bring chicken stock to boil.
2. Add ginger root, garlic, soy sauce, and half of green onions. Bring to boil, reduce heat and simmer for 5 to 6 minutes.
3. Arrange shrimp and scallops on platters.
4. Remove stem end from snow peas.
5. Cut sweet red pepper into large chunks.
6. Arrange vegetables on separate platter.
7. Transfer chicken stock to fondue pot (or to individual fondue pots) over high flame.
8. Using fondue forks or chopsticks, immerse seafood and vegetables in broth for about 1 minute each or until cooked through.
9. Dip into sauce of choice.
Makes 4 servings.
Sauce suggestions: hot mustard sauce, spicy barbecue, teriyaki, plum sauce etc.
Tips:
Use fondue forks with different shaped handles or colors so guests can determine whose forks are whose.
You can use also small fondues to serve 1 or 2 people.
To serve variety of sauces use small bowls.
When seafood and vegetables have been eaten, place rice in soup bowls; pour cooking broth over top, sprinkle with reserved green onions and serve as a soup course.
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