Every dish that is served during Chinese New Year has an auspicious meaning behind it! Our friends at ShareFood.sg bring you this recipe prepared by Jessie Koey, who is a stay home mum and a recipe blogger. In her home town back in Malaysia, this is a family classic dish – Sweet and Sour Sea Cucumber with Fish Maw. The recipe is below, and you can read their full post here.
Sweet and Sour Sea Cucumber with Fish Maw
Ingredients
100 g dehydrated fish maw
2 large fresh sea cucumber
250 g bamboo shoot
150 g chicken breast meat minced
100 g small prawns minced
½ carrot skinned and sliced
2 tbsp frozen crab meat
3 dried shiitake mushrooms soaked overnight till soft and sliced
2 eggs lightly beaten
corn flour mixture 2 tbsp corn flour + 3 tbsp water
1 stalk leek sliced
For boiling sea cucumber
4 slices ginger
½ tbsp chinese cooking wine
Spices
4 cloves garlic
2 large red chillies remove seed
4 chilli padi
2 inch ginger skinned and cut into slices
Sauce ingredients
3 tbsp white vinegar add more as desired to increase the tanginess
2 tbsp sugar
1 tbsp oyster sauce
1 tbsp abalone sauce
4 tbsp tomato sauce
4 tbsp chilli sauce
2 tbsp light soy sauce
1 tsp fish sauce
300 ml chicken broth
Instructions
Prepare the ingredients
1
Sea cucumber:
Cut into 3cm width. In a saucepan, boil water. Add in sea cucumber, ginger and chinese cooking wine. Boil for 5 mins, drain and set aside. #Tips: Chinese cooking wine will get rid of the fishy smell from the sea cucumber.
2
Fish maw:
Soak in water for 2 hrs depending on the hardness of the fish maw, rinsed and squeezed out the water and cut into 2 inch width.
3
Mince the spices:
Add all the ingredients into the Kenwood multichopper. Pulse to chop the ingredients finely.
Fry the ingredients and serve
4
In a wok, heat 2 tbsp oil. Add in minced spices and mushroom. Sauté till fragrant.
5
Add in minced chicken and prawn. Sauté till ¾ cooked.
6
Add in all the sauce ingredients, fish maw, carrots, bamboo shoots and crab meat. Stir to mix well and let it simmer for 5 minutes.
7
Add in sea cucumber and stir to mix well, let it simmer for 8 mins.
8
Add in leek, stir to mix evenly. Adjust the taste with the sauce ingredients as desired.
9
Stir in corn starch mixture and drizzle in the beaten egg.
10
Sprinkled coriander leaves and serve immediately.
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