Colorful Scallops
Hunan-style seafood stir-fry: fresh scallops are stir-fried with carrot balls, cucumber balls, straw mushrooms, and shiitake mushrooms, yielding a dish with bright, appealing color and rich, fresh flavor.
Ingredients
Scallops (coated with starch)
300 g
Carrot balls (blanched in boiling water)
20 g
Cucumber balls (blanched in boiling water)
20 g
Straw mushrooms (blanched in boiling water)
20 g
Soaked shiitake mushrooms (blanched in boiling water)
5 g
Salt
2 g
MSG
3 g
Cooking wine
5 g
Black pepper
2 g
Starch (for coating and sauce thickening)
to taste
Cooking oil (for stir-frying)
to taste
Instructions
1
Blanching and Coating
Blanch carrot balls, cucumber balls, straw mushrooms, and shiitake mushrooms in boiling water; coat the scallops with starch and set aside.
2
Stir-frying Scallops
Heat cooking oil in a wok until hot, stir-fry the coated scallops until just cooked through, then set aside.
3
Stir-frying and Thickening
Leave a small amount of base oil in the wok, add all main ingredients and seasonings (salt, MSG, cooking wine, black pepper), stir-fry evenly, drizzle with a small amount of water starch to thicken the sauce, add a splash of clear oil, then serve.