New Year's Eve meal recipe recommendation: Home-style Steamed Abalone with Garlic and Fans

Guangdong restaurant garlic chili Tofu skinSteamed Abalone in steamed rice vermicelli with garlic chives is particularly popular, try making this rich and fragrant dish at home during the Spring Festival! Only by cooking it yourself will you realize that this dish can outshine restaurant versions.

The preparation is simple, but cleaning the abalones is a bit troublesome. The meat is easy to clean, but the edge ( ) needs careful attention as it contains many impurities, especially small black spots that are difficult to remove; these need to be scraped with your fingers.

Main ingredients: abalone, rice vermicelli

Seasonings: garlic, green onion, red chili pepper

Seasoning: salt,Steamed fishSoy sauce

Preparation method for steamed abalone in garlic chives and rice vermicelli

Soak the rice vermicelli until soft.

Clean the abalones initially, ask the seller to clean them when buying. Afterward, remove the mud sacs, especially clean around the edge ( ), which often contains small black spots that need to be scraped out with your fingers.

Compare the cleaned and uncleaned abalones for a difference in appearance.

Use a knife to take out the meat from the abalone, also remove the foot threads.

Clean the shells thoroughly.

Squeeze excess water from the cleaned abalones.

Marinate each abalone with a little white wine for 10 minutes.

Finely chop the garlic.

Use two-thirds of the chopped garlic to fry in oil over low heat.

Fry until golden and crispy, then remove from heat.

Combine the fried garlic with the remaining one-third of finely chopped garlic, adding salt.

Lay down rice vermicelli at the bottom of the steamer basket.

Place abalone meat on top.

Spread the mixed garlic over the abalones.

Steam for about 4 to 5 minutes once the water boils.

Arrange in a plate, sprinkle with green onion and red chili pepper. Drizzle with heated oil and soy sauce before serving.

Cooking tip:

The texture of rice vermicelli varies by brand; some soften quickly while others need boiling. Abalone meat cooks easily; overcooking can cause it to become tough. Adjust pre-processing based on the type of rice vermicelli used.