Description
About this product
Monika Sotanghon Bean Thread is glass vermicelli from the Philippines. In Asian cooking, glass vermicelli is often used as a filling for snacks such as spring rolls and dumplings.
Usage and preparation
Use the glass vermicelli in soups and stir-fries, or as a garnish. One example is sotanghon soup.
Sotanghon soup
You need: 6-7 cups chicken broth, 2 tbsp oil, ½ chopped garlic bulb, ½ sliced onion, 1 cup cooked chicken, 1 tbsp fish sauce (patis), 4 dried shiitake mushrooms, 200 g glass vermicelli and sliced spring onions.
- Soak the dried shiitake mushrooms in hot water for about 15 minutes. Squeeze out excess water, remove the stems and cut the caps into quarters.
- Heat the oil and sauté the garlic and onion over medium heat. Do not let the garlic burn.
- Add the chicken, shiitake mushrooms and fish sauce. Cover and simmer for 3 minutes.
- Add the broth and bring to the boil.
- Add the glass vermicelli and cook for 3 minutes or until the vermicelli is done.
- Garnish with spring onion and serve with lemon juice mixed with fish sauce.
Ingredients
Nutritional values
| Nutritional value | per 100 g |
| Energy | 1460 kJ |
| Fat | 0 g |
| of which saturates | 0 g |
| Carbohydrate | 86 g |
| of which sugars | 28 g |
| Protein | 0 g |
| Salt | 0.07 g |
