Elevate your Chinese New Year gatherings with this Seafood Tower! 🦀 Filled with delicious seafood like Crabs and Prawns, hop into the Rabbit year with abundance!✨
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Here is the recipe for the Seafood Tower:
INGREDIENTS
700 g crabs (approximately 1-2 pcs), cleaned
300 g prawns, deveined, with shell
300 g lala clams, cleaned
50 g fresh ginger, thinly sliced
1 tsp salt, adjust to taste
30 g Chinese rice wine (Shaoxing Hua Tiao) (optional)
1500 g water
50 g concentrated scallop stock
1 tsp sugar, adjust to taste
½ tsp white pepper powder
200 g spinach, leaves only
15 g wolfberries (goji), soaked, to garnish (optional)
Preparation
1. Place a large bowl on mixing bowl lid, weigh in crabs, prawns, lala clams, 25 g ginger slices, ½ tsp salt and rice wine. Mix well and set aside.
2. Place water in mixing bowl, insert simmering basket, add dried anchovies, 25 g ginger slices, ½ tsp salt, sugar, white pepper powder to it, cook 15 min/100°C/speed 1.
3. Arrange seasoned crabs and prawns in Varoma dish. Arrange seasoned lala clams in Varoma tray. Set Varoma into position, steam 17 min/Varoma/speed 1.
4. Carefully remove Varoma and set aside, remove simmering basket with spatula and discard dried anchovies. Add spinach into mixing bowl, cook 2 min/100°C/reverse/speed 1.5.
5. To serve, arrange seafoods onto a plate. Transfer spinach soup into a bowl, garnish with goji berries. Serve immediately.
Tip 💡
• Seafood variation can be adjusted according to personal preference. For example, replace clams with fish or squids.
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