short-neck clams & green onion ginger soup

ingredients:

• 4 ounces short-neck clams
• 3 ounces long green onion
• or leek
• 1 teaspoon grated ginger
• 1 2/3 cups Chinese soup stock or chicken broth
• 1 teaspoon soy sauce
• a little salt

step 1:

Soak the short-neck clams in salted water (1 tablespoon / cup concentration) in a bowl, and let stand for 3 hours to allow them to expel sand and dirt. Drain them in a colander. Rinse them for about 30 seconds under running hot water.

step 2:

Slice the green onion (or leek) diagonally into 2 in. pieces.

step 3:

Put the soup stock or chicken broth, short-neck clams and green onion in a pan and boil on medium heat. After the shells open, skim off the surface scum.

step 4:

Add the soy sauce, ginger and salt. Mix a couple of times. Remove from the heat.