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Abalone Quail

Korean-style braised abalone and quail, vibrant with red and green accents, richly aromatic with tender meat.

30 min
Easy
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Abalone Quail

Ingredients

Fresh abalone (washed, drained, cut into 3 wide slices) 200 g
Quail (stunned, plucked clean, gutted, washed, boned, meat cut into 3cm cubes) 2
Mushrooms (rehydrated, stems trimmed, washed) 25 g
Cucumber (washed, cut into shreds) 200 g
Peanut oil (for frying) 750 g (75 g consumed)
Cooking wine 10 g
Soy sauce 5 g
Fine salt 4 g
Chicken bone broth 250 ml
Egg white 1
Scallion (peeled, washed, cut into 3cm-long segments) 3 g
White pepper 2 g
Ginger (peeled, washed, minced) 2 g
Sesame oil (added at the end) 5 g
Garlic (peeled, washed, minced) 1 g
Starch (for coating quail meat and thickening sauce) 10 g

Instructions

1

Prepare ingredients

Wash the abalone, drain, cut into 3 wide slices; rehydrate the mushrooms, trim stems, wash; stun the quail, pluck all feathers, gut, wash, bone, cut the meat into 3cm cubes, place in a bowl, add 1.5g salt, egg white, 5g starch, mix well; peel the scallion, wash, cut into 3cm-long segments; peel the ginger and garlic, wash, mince; wash the cucumber, cut into shreds

2

Fry the quail meat

Heat the wok, add peanut oil, heat to 70% temperature, add the quail meat, stir to separate pieces, deep-fry for 2 minutes, remove, drain oil, pour remaining oil into an oil jar

3

Braise the finished dish

Leave 25g of soybean oil in the wok, heat, add scallion segments and green peas, stir-fry a few times, add the pre-fried quail, add soy sauce, sugar, cooking wine and 200ml water, cover, braise over medium heat for 3 minutes, add MSG, thicken with starch, drizzle with sesame oil, sprinkle with toasted sesame, serve