Alright, had a mini steamboat dinner over at Fadd's place. I met him at about close to 5 at 888 plaza and did some grocery shopping. Then after, proceed to prepare the food.
In a steamboat meal, what i feel that is mostly unhealthy is when people boils the broth using large amount of chicken stock. I understand if people dont know how to prepare broth thats why they resorted to using chicken stock. But they should try to learn the the proper way of preapring broth, for steamboat broth is really important, as it adds flavour to the food you throw into the pot.
In this post, I will try to teach how to prapare for a steamboat feast!
Broth Preparation
Ingredients needed:
Water
Corn
Carrots
Dried Squids / Ikan Bilis
Chicken Bones
Long White Cabbage
Soya Beans
First of all, fill the pot with desired amount of Water. Next, prepare the ingreidents by soaking the Dried Squid or Ikan Bilis and the Soya Beans in separate bowls of water. Then after, cut the Corns, Carrots and Chicken Bones into smaller pieces. By now, you should be boiling the pot of water and when water is boiling with popping bubbles, throw in the prepared ingredients and leave it to boil with small-medium fire.
Other Ingredients Preparation
Ingredients Bought
Fish Balls
Hot Dog
Chicken Thighs
Salmon
Prawns
Crab Sticks
Cauliflower
Asparagus
Spinach
Squid
Chicken Fillet
Wanton Skin
Crabs
Well, for Fish Balls, Hot Dog, Salmon, Crab Sticks, Cauliflower, Asparagus, Spinach and Squid, you just need to slice it into smaller pieces like how you would usually prepare it. Where as for the Chicken Fillet and Wanton Skin you would have to prepare it for yourself, it wouldnt form into wanton dumplings on its own definately. And for the Crab, it was cooked as chili crab. I will do a demo for that next time...
For the Chicken Thighs, its good if you can marinate it to give it the extra kick of taste when cooked. To marinate it, theres alot of ways to do so. But for that night, shallot oil with some shallots, pepper, a little light soy sauce, and cornflour. Rememeber to mix it well, so as to let the meat be well marinated and eat the sauces.So, for the Wanton Dumplings.
For the minced meat, you can marinate it with light soy sauce, pepper, sesame oil and also chopped spring onions (optional), chopped water chestnut (optional).
Lay piece of Wanton Skin on top of fingers
Scoop a teaspoon of marinated minced meat in the middle of skin
Take the bottom corner and fold upwards into a triangle
Bring the right corner diagonally upwards to the left of the tip of the triangle
And the remaining left corner, diagonally upwards to the right side of the tip of the triangle
The dumpling should be looking as decent as this (:
There you have it!Thats all for the steamboat entry, I hope this would help all of you to prepare better steamboat feast!!
