Mantis Shrimp with Black Pepper Sauce Recipe (Resep Udang Ronggeng Saus Lada Hitam)

Mantis Shrimp with Black Pepper Sauce Recipe

Mantis shrimp or mantis prawn is exotic edible sea creatures that rarely seen on my daily menu. Mantis shrimp had several name around the world, it’s called Udang Ronggeng (It moves similiar to Ronggeng dancer) , Udang Sentadu or Udang Lipan (It looks like a centipede) in Indonesia. In Japan, mantis shrimp called shako (蝦蛄),in Italia, it’s called Canocchie, in Vietnamese it’s known as tôm tít or tôm tích, (攋尿蝦, Mandarin pinyin: lài niào xiā, modern Cantonese: laaih niu hā)”pissing shrimp” and in Philippines, the mantis shrimp is known as tatampal, hipong-dapa or alupihang-da ga.

Mantis Shrimp, Mantis Prawn

Udang Ronggeng, Udang Lipan, Udang Kertak, Alupihang Daga, Shako

Foraging over Jakarta’s Muara Angke fish market driven me to a mantis shrimp on a large icy batch that looks like a giant bugs for me. The seller convinced me that the mantis shrimp are as fresh as possible by picking one of the mantist shrimps arm, squeese out the meat and eat it like a sashimi. Well, the tricks works for me. Since my nephew told me to bargain it radically due to the sellers incorrect weight scale, i can take it home for about 5 USD a kilo (not true weight though) from the first 7 USD offer.

Udang Ronggeng at Muara Angke Fish Market

Resep Udang Ronggeng Saus Lada Hitam

How to cook mantis shrimp ??? thats’s what i thought right away when i purchased it in Muara Angke Seafood Market, Jakarta. Internet search calls for either boiled, roasted, deep fried, stir fried or even eaten raw as sashimi. I choose too stir fry the mantis shrimp with humbe black pepper sauce to let the sea bugs introduced to my taste buds. How does mantist shrimp taste like ??? i think it’s similiar to lobster and prawn, but the texture is more like a crab since it fleshy and  stick’in to the shell.

Mantis shrimp meat taste almost like a lobster ! Sweet, Firm and Succulent !

Tiny Mantis Shrimp Clawn Meat

You can deep fried the shrimp for about one minute or even two, before tossing is with the sauce, but i did’t since i like to simply stir fry it first with a little of oil and cooked it in the blackpepper sauce. This is the secret how to cook mantis shrimp to prevent it got overcooked.

Resep Udang Ronggeng Saus Lada Hitam (Recipe Mantis Shrimp in Black Pepper Sauce)

Mantis Shrimp in Black Pepper Sauce Recipe :

• 3 udang rongeng/mantis shrimp (about 1 kg),cut into 3 segment,  cleaned throughly, drizzle with a little of lime juice, drained
• 1/2 bell pepper, jullienned
• 1/3 tsp freshly grounded  black peppercorn
• 1/4 small onion, thinly sliced
• 2 tsp of oyster sauce, i use Lee Kum Kee Brand
• 3 cloves garlic , chopped
• 2 cm ginger, finelly chopped
• a pinch of salt and sugar to taste
• 2 tbs of premium light soy sauce
• 1 tsp of chinese cooking wine
• 1 tsp kecap manis/sweet soy sauce
• 1/2 tsp corn flour, dissolve with 1 tbsp water
• 1 tsp of sesame oil
• 2 tbsp vegetable oil for stir frying
• 1/2 cup water
• shaved spring onion for serving

Instruction How to Cook Mantis Shrimp on Black Pepper Sauce :

• Heat up the vegetable oil in a large wok pan, saute the garlic, ginger and the onion until slightly brown
• Add the grounded black peppercorn and mantis shrimp, stir fry another 2 minutes
• Add the oyster sauce, cooking wine, light soy sauce, sweet soy sauce and water to deglaze the bottom, stir well and close with glass lid and bring it to boil
• Nearly done, add the sesame oil and dissolved corn flour to thicken the sauce
• Serve black pepper sauce mantis shrimp with shaved spring onion

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I was  so lucky to found live blue crab at Grand Lucky Supermarket in Jakarta (nearby Pacific Place Mall) and it’s not tagged as silly expensive as a seafood restauran. The live blue crab cost me about 9.99 USD for a kilo and i brought home about one and a half kilos. No more pale canned crab meat that cost me about 2.85 USD for 125 gr drained crab meat weight. Foraging over a gourmet store in Jakarta driven me to Kem Chick Supermarket and i found a very small bundle of daun laksa or daun kesum or laksa leaves for about 0.5 USD. Daun laksa had a stong aromatic aromas and pleasant spicy and a little bit tangy after taste. but since i using live blue crab for this recipe, i use only a pinch. I think daun laksa is more suits with asam or sour laksa instead of curry laksa for my personal licking.

Live Blue Crab in Aquarium @ Grand Lucky Supermarket

Laksa Leaves,Daun Kesum, Vietnamese Corriander Leaves, Cambodian Mint from Kem Chick

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Crab Curry Laksa Recipe:

• 1 kg live or fresh blue crab,
  
• 2 pcs tamarind peel (asam keping/asam potong)
• 1/4 tsp tamarind paste
• 5 fresh shiitake mushrooms, thinly slice*optional
• 1500 ml chicken stock
• 1 cup coconut milk
• Cooking oil
• Rice vermicelly or rice noodle, boiled according to package instruction
• Salt, sugar and fish sauce to taste

Laksa Spice Paste Recipe:

• 20 fresh red chillies (cabe merah)
  
• 12 shallots (bawang merah)
  
• 8 cloves garlic (bawang putih)
  
• 3 cm turmeric (kunyit)
• 3 cm ginger (jahe)
• 1 tbsp shrimp paste (terasi/belacan)
• 3 candlenuts (kemiri)
• 2 lemongrass (sereh)
• 1 tsp coriander (ketumbar)
• 1/4 tsp pepper
• 30gr dried prawns, soak for 10 mins, drained
  

Garnish and Condiment:

• Corriander leaves
• Daun kesum or laksa leaves or vietnamese corriander leaves
• Bean sprout
• Chopped tomatoes
• Chopped chillies
• Deep fried shallots
• lemon wedges

Instruction:

• Clean the blue crab and remove the gills,steamed for about 15 minutes, carefully remove the meat from the shell, drain and set asida the crab meat, retain the liquid for the laksa broth
• Heat up the oil in a wokpan, saute the spice paste until fragrant and had more vivid color
• Pour the chicken stock, coconut milk and the liquid from steaming the blue crab
• Add the tamarind peel and the tamarind paste, bring to boil
• Put the shiitake mushrooms and season to your preference taste

How to serve the crab curry laksa:

• Put the rice vermicelli/rice noodle in the bottom of the serving bowl, add the crab meat and pout the laksa broth, serve with the garnishes and condiments

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Quick and Easy Pumpkin Risotto

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Butternut Pumpkin or Squash, Labu Butternut

Almond Mushrooms or Brazillian Mushrooms

Pumpkin Risotto Recipe

Ingredients:

• 1 1/2 cup short grain rice, soaked 15 minutes, drained
• 100 gr butternut pumpkin chunck
• 100 gr butternut pumpkin puree
• 50 gr bacon* i substitude with chinese sausage (Lap Cheung)
• 10 gr dried almond mushrooms or brazillian mushrooms or any mushrooms that u’ve got
• 1/2 cup black olives, cut into 1 cm thick ring
• 3 cups chicken stock
• 1/2 cup white wine, or you can substitude wuth rice wine
• a pinch of saffron threads
• 2 tbs olive oil
• 2 tbsp butter
• 1 bay leave
• 3 cm cinnamon
• 3 cardamon pod
• 1/2  onion, finely chopped
• 4 garlic cloves, crushed, finelly chopped
• 1 cup (250ml) dry white wine or rice wine
• 1/2 cup (40g) finely grated cheese, Parmiggiano-Regianno would be the best
• deep fried shalllots for garnish

Instructions:

• Heat up the stock in a heavy bottom sauce pan until small boil and add the saffron to the stock, stirring to infuse, turn off the heat and set aside.
• Heat the olive oil and butter over medium heat, add the onion and garlic cook until softened and translucent but not browned
• Add the cinnamon, bay leaves and cardamon pod
• Once the onions are translucent, add the pumpkin chunck, choppped mushrooms, and olives until fragrant
• Add the rice and stir with a wooden spoon until the rice toasted and opaque, 3 to 4 minutes.
• Add the wine to the toasting rice, and then add 1 cup of the saffron-infused stock and cook, stirring, until it is absorbed.
• Continue adding the stock one cup at a time, waiting until the liquid is absorbed before adding more. Cook until the rice is tender and creamy and yet still a little al dente or your preference doness, about 15 minutes.
• Stir in the 1 tbsp butter and cheese until well mixed. let it rest for 2 minutes
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