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Chinese Money Bags

Chinese Money Bags
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Makes 8 individual money bags

Ingredients

  • 2shiitake mushrooms
  • Approximately 12 Swiss brown mushrooms
  • 2-3 garlic cloves
  • 4baby corn
  • 4 slicesbamboo shoots
  • Red chilli to taste
  • Light soy sauce to taste
  • Lemon to taste
  • Salt and pepper
  • 1 tbspeanut oil
  • Extra oil for deep frying
  • Rice paper roll wrappers
  • Stems of bunch of coriander, blanched
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Method

  • Soak shitake mushrooms in water for at least 30 minutes.
  • Finely dice Swiss brown mushrooms.
  • Finely chop garlic.
  • Heat oil and fry garlic and mushrooms until soft and golden.
  • Finely dice drained shitake mushrooms, baby corn and bamboo shoots. Add the garlic and mushrooms to mixture.
  • Season with salt and pepper, soy sauce, squeeze of lemon and mix together - taste for seasoning.
  • Place a teaspoon of mushroom mixture in centre of rice paper roll wrapper that has been pre-softened in hot water.
  • Use blanched coriander stems to tie up wrapper around mushroom filling to form a pouch.
  • . Snip off excess wrapper and stems to create money bag.
  • Heat oil in saucepan until hot. Drop bags into hot oil and flash fry until wrapper puffs up and turns golden, making sure that bags do not stick together.
  • Drain moneybags on absorbent paper. Garnish with slithers of red chilli for colour.
Dipping sauce
  • Mix lemon, light soy and chilli to taste. This recipe has been written by an amateur chef and has not been tested by the MasterChef food department.
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