Clam Soup
Clams are always a delicious food to be cooked for lunch, dinner or as and addition into soups. It has a unique umami flavor and tastes a bit fatty. It is also versatile, it can be grilled, saute, boiled, cooked into a sup, curry, deep fry and many more. Adding clams into tom yum soup will add flavor to it.
In this recipe I cooked a type of clam which people here call la-la or retak seribu (thousand cracks). Maybe it got its name from the pattern of its shell which looks like it has many cracks on it. I cooked it into an almost clear soup, consisting of some herbs. It is then eaten with rice. Fried salted fish is a good partner to this dish.
Ready in 30 minutes
Ingredients
- 500 gram clams
- 1 onion (cut into 6 wedges)
- 7 cloves of garlic (crushed)
- 5 stalks of lemongrass (bruised)
- 5 dried chilies (pounded until become paste or cut in 1 inch length)
- Water
- Salt
- 5 tablespoon cooking oil
- 1 teaspoon fish sauce
Methods
- Heat the cooking oil in a large pan.
- Add in garlic and fry until golden.
- Add in chili and onion.
- When onion is tender add in lemongrass and clams.
- Add in water and a teaspoon of salt.
- Cook until the clams are cooked (usually the become opened) and taste test the soup.
- Add in fish sauce, sugar and salt if necessary.
- Turn off the heat. Eat with steamy rice. Enjoy.
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