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Chargrilled lobster with spicy sate sauce recipe (tom hum nuong sate)

Created by Luke Nguyen

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Cuisine: Vietnamese

Ingredients

2 live lobsters, 700 g each
200g crab meat
100g dried shrimp. Soaked in 1 cup water for 20 minutes & drained
25g dried chilli flakes
100ml chilli oil
10 spring onions, sliced (white part only)
½ bulb garlic, minced
½ tablespoon sugar
1 tablespoon oyster sauce
1 teaspoon salt
½ tablespoon fish sauce
500ml vegetable oil
1 lemon

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Preparation

To kill the lobsters humanely, place them in the freezer for one hour. Remove the lobsters from the freezer and bring to room temperature.

Pour vegetable oil in a wok and bring to medium heat, fry the garlic and spring onion until fragrant. Now add crab meat, shrimps, sugar, oyster sauce, salt and fish sauce. Stir then reduce heat to a low simmer for 30 minutes stirring every 5 minutes. Lastly add chilli oil, stir and simmer for a further 5 minutes.

You can use this sate sauce as a dipping sauce for noodle soups or add to
stir fry’s.

Turn the lobsters upside down on a chopping board, and slice them in half lengthways from the tail to the top of the head. Use a sharp knife to split the claws only on the side that will be turned up on the grill.

Place each half lobster, meat side down, on a grill that has been pre-heated to a medium temperature.

Grill for 7 minutes then turn the lobster halves over and baste the lobster meat with the sate sauce and grill for a further 7 minutes.

Serve grilled lobster with a wedge of lemon.

Refrigerate left over sauce in an airtight container for later use.

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Comments (2)

27 Nov 2009 10:32 AEST

Tracy

I was really impressed by the sate sauce for the lobster but I noticed that the recipe on the web doesn't contain shredded dry squid. Just want to confirm that this is an omission?

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26 Nov 2009 10:19 AEST

Dean Evans

I was just channel surfin came across your show, its good stuff and you talk better aussie than me a 5th generation irsh catholic, I love your locations in NAM checked things out Jet star have 8 day return flights $213 each me and the missus in goin April, maybe see you there thanks mate, esp 6 awrsome talk soon, cheers

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