This recipe introduces classic Chinese cuisine known for its heavy use in seafood cooking. Seafood with fried melon is an original and original dish that will appeal to those who like everything unusual and new.
Ingredients:
- 100 g frozen shrimp;
- 1 carcass of peeled squid;
- 5 Chinese cabbage leaves;
- 100 g melon;
- 3 tablespoons of soy sauce
- 1 garlic clove;
- 1 cm of ginger root;
- ¼ nori leaf;
- 1 pod of fresh hot pepper.
Preparation:
- Boil the shrimps in salted water, cool and peel.
- Cut the squid carcass into two equal parts. With a wide knife, or better with a kitchen cleaver, make cuts in each half at an angle of 45 ° with respect to the flat surface of the board (table), while cutting the carcass to the end is not necessary. Then cut these halves across - thin long triangles.
- Place the chopped squid in a small deep container, pour soy sauce to it, add salt to taste and add a little ground black pepper. Mix all ingredients and set aside for now.
- Fold the Chinese cabbage leaves in a pile and cut in half, separating the hard part from the soft part. We do not need the upper part of the leaves yet, but cut the hard lower part into thin strips.
- Cut a piece of melon into regular slices, cut off the hard crust with a thin layer and cut the flesh into thin slices.
- Put squid "triangles" in a frying pan heated with oil, fry a little, and then put in a separate plate.
- In the same oil, lightly fry a chopped piece of ginger and a finely chopped clove of garlic. Add melon slices to the ginger and garlic in the pan, fry a little too, sweet juice should stand out from them.
- Throw in cabbage straws, fry for about 5 minutes, stirring constantly.
- Add the shrimp and squid last, mix all the ingredients and cover the mixture in a skillet with the soft part of the cabbage leaves that were recently cut off.
- Darken in this state for literally 3-4 minutes over low heat and can be served.
- Put on a plate in this way - first the soft cabbage leaves, and then a portion of the mixture. Put chopped strips of nori leaf and chopped hot pepper on top (its dosage is optional, you can do without it at all).
