Chinese Style Stir-Fry Slipper Lobster (Crayfish) Recipe

😋Recipe for Super Tasty Stir-fry Fermented Black Bean Slipper Lobster (Crayfish or crawfish or ecrevisse, or rock lobster or spiny lobster or crawdad) 炒虾婆 😋
How to cook crayfish or slipper lobster? This delicious crayfish (slipper lobster or crawfish or ecrevisse, or rock lobster or spiny lobster or crawdad) recipe uses a combination of pan-fry, deglaze and stir-fry method to create a thick finger licking sauce which coats the succulent slipper lobster meat perfectly.
The sauce has just the right level of flavors to complement the natural sweetness of the meat without overwhelming it.
Neutral tasting and nutritious arrowroot flour/ starch (can be substitute 1:1 with potato flour) is used to
1. “glue” the sauce to the meat
2. thicken the sauce
3. give the sauce a shimmering, translucent sheen
4. give a silky mouth feel
Slipper Lobster / crayfish is a clawless and smaller species of the lobster with a flattened head. This crustacean is a more affordable compared to its clawed cousins but has similar flesh quality. (succulent, sweet, white and firm). Crabs can be used for this recipe as well.
Note: Do not use a non-stick pan in this recipe as the lobster shells will scratch the pan. This method of cooking will involve deglazing which works best with iron cast wok or stainless steel pan.
Ingredients
Suitable to 3 to 4 pax
1 kg of fresh slipper lobsters
3 stalks of spring onions/ scallion (cut into 1 to 1 ½ inch)
25g old ginger (thinly shredded, cut some into thin slices if you want more gingerly taste but not eat it)
4 cloves of garlic (minced)
3 shallots (chopped)
Handful of coriander stalks
1 TSP fermented black bean
½ TSP light black soya bean sauce
1 cup of homemade unsalted chicken stock (or water)
Arrowroot starch/ flour for coating
Dash of white pepper
Lard oil for frying (or other preferred oil)
Steps:
1. Peel and cut ginger into silken threads.
2. Peel and mince the garlic.
3. Peel and cut shallots into thin slices.
4. Shave off the tiny root hairs of coriander root and keep the white part. Cut and separate the lower part of the stem from top leafy parts of the coriander stalk as they are to be added at different times during cooking.
5. Cut and discard the roots of spring onions. Cut the top darker green parts into lengths of about 2 inches. Cut the bottom parts into shorter lengths. Separate them.
6. To clean the slipper lobster, remove external unfertilized eggs on the shell. Give the shell a good scrub with a brush. Pull off the legs and scrub the shell underneath.
7. Remove the chest of the slipper lobster with a knife. Use fingers to dig out and pull out all the innards and hard bits. Keep any golden coloured tomalley.
8. Use a sharp knife to cut the lobster into halves.
9. Coat the exposed lobster meat with flour.
10. Pour enough oil for pan-frying the lobster pieces. Place the pieces with meat side faced down into the pan.
11. Fry for about 3 min maximum. Remove the pieces and set aside.
12. Add some oil. Add ginger, garlic, shallot, coriander roots, bottom parts of the spring onion into the pan. Start the deglazing process by scraping the caramelized bits on the pan.
13. When the aromatics start smelling fantastic, add in the lobsters.
14. Add in chicken stock. This step will further loosen the caramelized bits on the pan. Stir and toss.
15. Add in the fermented black bean sauce.
16. Add light black bean soya sauce and white pepper.
17. Add in the remaining spring onions and coriander leaves when the sauce has thicken/
18. Keep tossing. It is ready when the sauce has fully thicken and coats each pieces nicely.
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[@knk3849]

Thank you for showing us how to clean the lobster👍😊. That was sthg I didn't know what to do

[@essenwellhomecooking]

You are most welcomed ☺️

[@DishingDelights]

This looks absolutely delicious! Thanks for sharing the recipe!!

[@essenwellhomecooking]

You are most welcome. 😃

[@jaded9641]

Thank you for the receipe.. my family love it!

[@essenwellhomecooking]

Thank you. You made my day😁

[@jaded9641]

I just made it today.. my family said my cooking skill improve ☺️ credit is all yours!!

[@essenwellhomecooking]

@@jaded9641 time to restart posting. Have been a while since I posted anything new.

[@jaded9641]

@@essenwellhomecooking please do!!!!!

[@SURYZCOOKINGFARMING]

This recipe is superb!

[@essenwellhomecooking]

Thanks 😊

[@Haya-nl2sw]

Yumilicious 😋😋

[@essenwellhomecooking]

Thanks 😊

[@cokaling7244]

What is the fermented black bean sauce ? In Chinese what do we call it?

[@essenwellhomecooking]

Its called 豆豉。😁

[@cokaling7244]

The gravy ooks delicious! But the crayfish looks abit creepy too~😂

[@essenwellhomecooking]

Much easier than handling live 🦀 😁

[@benoniwatt]

Do you understand you should not keep female slipper lobster and just put a hundred baby in the drain? You need to get your slipper lobster from SMART fisherman who do not keep female with Eggs!

[@essenwellhomecooking]

Thanks for sharing about substainable fishing. However, the country where I live, such seafood is not widely available. We are lucky to even get fresh seafood from neighbouring countries.