Sweet and sour lobster with pineapple ~ Tong Cho Loong Har
Recipe Categories : | Chinese | Lobster
| Seafood |
Serves : 4 Preparation
time : 5 minutes + 20 mins standing Cooking
time : 8 minutes
Ingredients :
- 500g lobster meat
- salt
- 2 tbsp sugar
- 2 tspn soya sauce
- oil for deep frying
- 2-3 tbsp plain flour
- 2 eggs, lightly beaten
- 250g can pineapple cubes, drained
- 2 tspn peanut oil
- water
- 2 tbsp vinegar
- 2 tspn cornflour
Preparation and Cooking Instructions
- Cut lobster into bite-sized pieces. Sprinkle with 1 tspn salt, 1 tspn
sugar and the soya sauce and leave to marinate for 20 minutes
- Heat the oil and while it is heating, roll the lobster pieces lightly
in flour, then dip into beaten egg and drop them one by one into the
hot oil. Deep-fry until golden and drain on greaseproof paper.
- While the lobster pieces are cooking, cut pineapple cubes in half
and prepare the sauce.
- Mix together in a pan the peanut oil, 2 tbsp water, vinegar, the rest
of the sugar and 1 tspn salt. Bring to the boil, add pineapple pieces,
and cornflour blended with enough water to make a thin paste. Remove
from heat, put in the lobster pieces; make sure they are well immersed
in the sauce, and serve immediately with boiled rice or prawn crackers.
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