Tom Chien A Delicious Seafood Recipe

Vietnam is a country where you can find a myriad of saltwater fish dishes. Here, electricity supply is pretty much irregular and ordinary people rarely have refrigerators. Thus, people catch the fish and dry them under sunlight. This is a great way to preserve the fish for a longer period. A sauce prepared from tiny and fermented fish is a common and ever-present dish in every Vietnamese family. Here, we are going to discuss about ‘Tom Chien’, a delicious and highly nutritious seafood recipe prepared from shrimp and garlic sauce.

Ingredients
 

• 450 g or 1 lb of peeled and deveined large shrimp

• 12 cloves of peeled and chopped garlic

• 1 tablespoon of fish sauce

• ½ teaspoon of salt

• 3 tablespoons of edible oil

• 2 chopped red or green chilies

• 1 tablespoon of oyster sauce

• 2 springs of coarsely chopped fresh coriander (cilantro)

Preparation (including 4 serves)

Step-1: Prepare the shrimp

First, you need to wash the shrimp thoroughly so as to clean the dirt. Take it in a large mixing bowl and marinate with 1 teaspoon chopped garlic, 1 tablespoon fish sauce and ½ teaspoon salt. Allow it to sit for 30 minutes.

Step-2: Cook the shrimp

Put a frying pan over the stove. Switch on the regulator and adjust it to supply high heat to the pan. Add oil to it. As soon as the oil heats up, add the marinated shrimp and fry it for about 5 minutes until the shrimp turn pink. Take the fried shrimp in a serving platter.

Step-3: Add the remaining ingredients

Now, it is time to add the other ingredients to the fried shrimp. Add the chilies, fish sauce, garlic and the oyster sauce to the bowl and stir the mixture thoroughly. After it’s been stirred cook it again for about 1 minute over high heat.

Step-4: Serve and garnish the dish

Garnish the shrimp with fresh coriander leaves for a nice fragrance and beautiful look. Now your delicious shrimp recipe is ready. Serve and enjoy the meal. You can also take rice with it.

How to Cook Frozen Shrimp Without Losing The Taste

Fresh shrimps are the best. They are believed to contain much protein when they are fresh so fresh shrimps are higher in cost compared to frozen shrimps. When you go to the market or fish stall, you have got to pay some extra bucks for that fresh shrimp; but make sure that’s actually fresh shrimp before buying it.

The shrimps which are mostly available on the market are frozen. So it’s good to buy frozen shrimp in comparatively lesser rate, defrost them and cook carefully to retain its taste, flavor and protein & fat contents. Read on the entire post to know how to cook frosted shrimp so as to keep its taste and flavor intact.

Things you need:
 

To cook shrimp recipes you obviously need some utensils like a cooking pot, tongs and a sharp knife, the shrimp, cooking oil, water, ingredients, spices, salt and lemon juice depending on the dish’s requirement.

Preparation:
 

First off you need to defrost the shrimp. To do this take some water in a pot and put the shrimp in it for about 15 to 20 minutes and allow it to defrost.

After the shrimp gets defrosted, start peeling it. Start peeling the shell, skin and legs from the ventral side up to the ends. Take the tail of the shrimp off too. Put all the removed shell in a separate container and dispose it, unless it may spread the bad smell throughout your kitchen.

Now about the cooking – If your intention is to retain its taste and flavor, you’ve got to add lemon juice to it. Cut 2 to 3 fresh lemons to get 4-5 spoons of juice, and add the juice to the peeled shrimp. Aside from that, add some salt and turmeric powder, and mix the shrimp well to bring in the attractive yellowish color.

In majority of Asian shrimp dishes, you would find the dried and properly fried shrimp, unless you order shrimp sauce or salad items. Frozen shrimp is believed to be most delicious when it is fried with spices. So the onion, garlic and ginger pastes serve as the main ingredients for shrimp dishes, however, milk and curd are also used for more flavor.

If you desire to prepare the spicy shrimp or shrimp curry, take some oil in a pan and put it on the flame. As the oil is heated put the shrimp in the pan and fry it for about 10 minutes till it turns to reddish-brown. You can add the spices to it directly or can prepare the spices separately in another pan. While preparing the spices on the heat you could smell an attractive aroma out of it. Then add the fried shrimp to it and serve it in a plate. Well, this concludes the delicious Asian shrimp curry dish. Some curd and coriander leaves can also be added to the dish for some extra flavor. For more update information like our Face book Fan Page: Siam Canadian Group Limited