Black Bean & Eel soup

Ingredients:

- 1 big piece of eel (washed with salt, boiled in hot water for abt 3-4 minutes and rinse off slimy white stuff, cut to smaller pieces, panfry for a few minutes in abit of oil. Finally, add in abit of shao hsing wine)

- 1 packet of black beans, washed and soaked for abt 2 hours

- 1 thumb size ginger, cut to big slices

- 4-5 black dates

- 1.5-2tbsp salt

Steps:

- Prepare eel as steps above.

- Put in all ingredients to stainless steel pot

- add water til 3/4 full

- chicken mode for 40mins

- release pressure, all salt to taste.

- serve hot 

(Soup will have lots of bones fr eel. Be careful if serving children or old folks)