Century Egg with Ham and Ginger
The century egg (a.k.a. preserved egg, thousand-year egg, hundred-year egg, hundred-year-old egg, thousand-year-old egg; Chinese: 皮蛋; pinyin: pídàn or Chinese: 松花蛋; pinyin: sōnghūadàn) is a Chinese…
Ingredients
- 4 century eggs
- 80 g Jinhua ham
- 80 g pickled stem ginger
- 1 small bowl of dark vinegar (use for dipping)
Steps
- Wash century eggs clean.
- Shell the eggs, and cut each into 4 slices. Cut the pickled stem ginger into thin slices.
- Cut the Jinhua ham into thin slices. Soak in water for a while.
- Sandwich a slice of ginger with one of ham and a sliced century egg.
- Serve with vinegar.
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Adapted from “Century Egg with Ham and Ginger” in the Wikibooks Cookbook by its contributors, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Reformatted for this site; this page's recipe text is shared under the same license.