– Total time: 30 minutes, excluding the time needed to soak the clam (preparing: 15 minutes, cooking: 15 minutes).
– Servings: 4-5 people.
– Total calories: 1514 kcal
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Ingredients
– 1 kg of clams
– 1/2 pineapple
– 2 – 3 tomatoes
– 3 dracontomelon fruits
– 1 bowl of bean sprouts
– Dried onions, laksa leaves, green onions
– Seasoning: Fish sauce, salt, sugar, fresh chili
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Cooking instruction
– Soak all the clams in rice water or salt water. Put a few slices of fresh chili into the water to remove mud inside the clams. Then rub the clams’ shells and rinse them with clean water.
– Put the clams and cold water in a pot, bring it to a boil. When the clams have just opened their shells, stir well, then turn off the heat. Take the pot out.
– Filter the clam broth to leave out the sand.
– Remove clams’ meat from their shells, then wash the meat. Marinate it with a little fish sauce and seasoning.
– Peel the pineapple, cut it into bite-sized pieces.
– Wash and cut the tomatoes.
– Wash the bean sprouts and let them drain.
– Wash the lettuce, laksa leaves and chop them finely.
– Stir fry dried onion with 1 tablespoon pork lard or cooking oil. Add tomatoes and a little fish sauce into the pot and cook until the tomatoes get soft. Then add pineapple, dracontomelon.
– Pour the clam broth in, bring it to a boil.
– Seasoning with fish sauce, salt, sugar according to your own taste.
– When the dracontomelon is well cooked, take it out and crush it to get the meat, and remove the shell.
– Put the clam meat in the pot, bring it to a boil. Put some green onions, laksa leaves in and turn off the heat.
Note
– Do not stir-fry the clams because it will make the meat chewy and dry.
– Only use one-half of the clam broth and one-half of drinking water to avoid the bitter taste from the clam broth.
– To create a sour taste, you can either use dracontomelon fruits, star-fruits and vinegar.
