Main Ingredients:
Sea Cucumber: 6; Lean Meat: 1 piece; Shrimp: 16.
Auxiliary Materials:
Carrots: 2; Water Chestnuts: appropriate amount; Scallions: appropriate amount; Garlic: appropriate amount; Ginger: appropriate amount; Starch: appropriate amount.
Seasonings:
Sesame Oil: appropriate amount; Cooking Wine: appropriate amount; Salt: appropriate amount; White Pepper Powder: appropriate amount; Abalone Sauce: appropriate amount; Monosodium Glutamate: appropriate amount.
Taste: Salty and Fresh; Cooking Method: Steaming; Time: 20 minutes; Difficulty: Simple.
Detailed Steps for Cooking Smooth Sailing – Fresh Shrimp and Abalone Sauce Sea Cucumber
Prepare the required ingredients: sea cucumber, fresh shrimp, water chestnuts, lean meat, and carrots.
Chop the carrots and water chestnuts into small pieces and set aside.
Chop the shrimp into a paste and the lean meat into a meat paste and set aside.
Cut the carrots into cone shapes and trim them into the shape of a sailboat.
Mix the shrimp paste, lean meat paste, chopped carrots, chopped water chestnuts, garlic, ginger, salt, white pepper powder, sesame oil, monosodium glutamate, and starch together and set aside.
Clean the sea cucumber and set aside.
Put ginger slices, scallions, and cooking wine in a pot and bring to a boil.
Blanch the cleaned sea cucumber in the pot for a moment.
After blanching, remove the sea cucumber and drain the water, then add the previously mixed filling to the sea cucumber.
Steam for 10 minutes.
Place the steamed sea cucumber on a plate with lettuce leaves.
Heat oil in a pan and stir-fry garlic, ginger, and the soup and abalone sauce from the steamed sea cucumber together. Add salt and white pepper powder to taste.
Add half a bowl of water starch and mix well.
Pour the cooked sauce evenly over the sea cucumber.
Insert a carrot sailboat into one end of the sea cucumber.
