FOOD RECIPES - DRIED SCALLOP Rice Porridge or Conpoy Congee Recipe

Dried scallop porridge or conpoy congee is one of the most earthy and comforting chinese dry seafood delicacy. Just like JEONBOKJUK or Korean Abalone Porridge, this scallop porridge or conpoy congee is considered as a immune system booster for elderly people, newly giving birth mother and also post sickness patients. In chinese descent culinary, dried scallop is one of luxury items. Luxurious ingredients deserved to be paired with my Homemade Superior Stock/Broth that made of  beef bone marrow, malay/kampung chicken, and mushrooms and conpoy soaking liquid. Actually, i used to made a superior stock with crumbled dried scallop/conpoy, but fot this recipe i let the scallop whole .

Conpoy is actually dried scallop that made of the adductor muscle of scallops or shell clams that preboiled and then dried with under the sun ray or electric oven. Once the liquid content reduced, the flavour is contentrated, that’s what made the smell of dried scallop or conpoy is pungent, oceanic and reminiscent of certain salt-cured meats. Dried scallop got a concentrated rich and umami  taste due to its high content of  amino acids, such as glycine, alanine, and glutamic acid that easily blown your taste buds.

FOOD RECIPES - Stewed FISH MAW MANYUNG With Oyster Sauce and Enoki & Wood Ear Mushroon

 

Stuffed Fish Maw/ Hipio/Hipiaw Recipe :

• 50 gr pre-deep fried fish maw
• 50 gr fresh enoki mushroom
• 50 gr fresh woodear mushroom
• 1 tbsp oil
• 1/2 onion, slice thinly
• 3 cloves garlic, finely chopped
• 1 tbsp oyster sauce
• 1 tsp sesame oil
• 1 tsp mushroom sauce
• 3 cups beef stock
• 1/2 tsp maizena, dissolved with 1 tsp water

FOOD RECIPES - SHARKFIN - FISH MAW MALONG

Shark fin is one of the most luxurious ancient chinese culture delicacy, even the shark fins itself had a bland taste. Properly cooked whole shark fin had a nice texture, a combination of slippery, crunchy and smooth. Shark fin cooked in double boiler; the shark fin and another soup ingredients placed in a porcelaine jar and thighly closed to seal the moisture, alumunium foil will help for this purpose. T presciouse parcell then either steamed or boiled for several hours. The indirect heat make sure the gelatin and another protein slowly releares and intens the nice umami flavour. Living in indonesia is kinda hillarious, Contrary to the fact that Indonesia is one of the biggest exporting country of shark fin, finding a fine quality of dried whole prepared shark fin is not that easy .

shark fin recipe braised soup fish maw oyster sauce
Braised Whole Shark Fin and Fish Maw Malong Soup in Superior Stock

FOOD RECIPES - FISH MAW - MALONG

Josh Chen - Food Recipes

As the opening of the later variety of food offerings for the celebration of Chinese New Year, I pioneered with simple dishes, tasty and full of these nutrients. Hipio / Fish Maw soup is often encountered in the marriage ceremony, in restaurants and hotels, and usually expensive, when in fact it is made easy and economical for the whole family.

The main ingredient :

Hipio / Yu bao, Fsh Maw Malong
This material is in the form of two kinds, which as in this recipe or shaped into slabs, fried and packaged in plastic. Usually in the form of a slab found in most supermarkets or traditional markets.

The Material :