Chinese Style Steamed Live Lobster with Garlic, Ginger, Scallion and Soy Sauce

Chinese Style Steamed Lobster with Superior Soy Sauce

Steamed live lobster in Chinese Style with Garlic, Ginger, Scallion and Superior Soy Sauce Recipe. Cantonese style steamed lobster is less popular compare to the stir fried, but i assured you this simple steaming version is delicious too. Live or very fresh lobster steamed and then served with it’s very own natural sweetness and a hint of garlic, scallion and ginger infused in a superior soy sauce mixture. Steamed lobster is a very easy,  simple and yet elegant dish that would impressed everybody.

Chinese Style Steamed Lobster with Garlic, Ginger, Scallion and Soy Sauce

The chinese style steamed lobster recipe is an alternative quicky dish. Beside the fact that steaming is one of the healtiest way of cooking, the result is surprisingly superb. Lobster is lobster right, it must be succulent and delicious even if you simply eat the raw lobster straight away after you freshly killed and shuck the meat of the live lobster. I’ve try lobster in very different way but none of steaming method before,  so you should give it a try sometimes. Here’s the list of of lobster recipes;

• Stir Fried Lobster with Singapore Style Sweet and Sour Chili Sauce
• Butter Poached Lobster with Fennel and Herbs
• Grilled lobster with Chilies Sauce
• Cheese Baked Lobster Thermidor
• Oven Roasted Lobster with Brown Butter
• Japanese Lobster Miso Soup
• Raw Lobster Ceviche with Limes and Tomatoes
• Spicy Lobster Pasta

Cantonese Style Steamed Lobster with Garlic, Ginger, Scallion and Soy Sauce

Cantonese style steamed lobster recipe is a very easy and quick to prepare. The live lobster killed and cleaned first, since I love the lobster tomaley and all the goodness in the head so i let it steamed whole. If you didn’t want that part you can halved the shell then removed the tomaley under running water first. The cleaned lobster then laid in a heatproof glass bowl, meanwhile the chopped  garlic, ginger and white part of the scallion stir fried until charred and caramelized in a smoking hot wok pan with a little ammount of lard or oil first. The garlic mixture then boiled slowly with superior soy sauce for about 10 minutes until the garlic, ginger and scallion flavour infused to the soy sauce. After the soy sauce coolled down a little bit, i sieved the soy sauce with cheese cloth first before used for unecessary good looking presentation.

The Lobster Anthena Sneaking Out from the Steamed

How to steamed the whole lobster is one the hell of hillarious steps, once again for unnecessary presentation i insist to kept the spiny lobster long anthena, it’s even sneaking out from the steamer. The cleaned lobster dredged with the garlic, scallion and ginger infused soy sauce then the entire bowl wrapped goodly with aluminium foil to lock the moisture while the steaming process. No need to discard the steamed lobster drippping liquid first before put the soy sauce, simply mix it all the way. Steamed lobster dripping is sweet without fishy odor at all unlike the Cantonese Style Steamed Live Grouper Fish dripping that really smells muddy and fishy. Hot sesame oil poured to the steamed lobster and then garnished with chopped cilantro and julienned ginger just before serving.

Live Bamboo Lobster

I purchased the live bamboo lobster from Iane Fish Market that located on Jl. Kebagusan dalam I no.42, Pasar Minggu, South Jakarta. The live bamboo lobster in this recipe weighed about 350 grams and cost me about 14 $ (40 USD/kg). Iane fish market is a trusted live seafood distributor that provide many kinds of farmed live seafood, including many kinds of groupers; mouse grouper, coral trout, mud grouper. Beside, they provide several variant of lobster, including slipper lobster, bamboo lobster, and sand lobster. One thing for sure, they provide it with much more afforable price tag rather than fancy live seafood restaurant all over Jakarta. Handling live lobster is really pissing me off,  the lobster can’t stand still and kept cracling all over once i tried to photograph it, so i sedated the lobster by put in in ice bath first.

Chinese Style Steamed Live Lobster

Spinny lobster is the only lobster available here in Indonesia, it’s easily noticed for it’s spiny head, clawless body with a very long anthenas. Tropical ocean didn’t suits any clawned lobster like Maine lobster. I’m using live bamboo lobster for this recipe, the shell isn’t as hard as the clawned lobster and it’s made easier to crack open. The meat and shell weight ratio of spiny lobster is less compare to the clawned lobster once it cooked, but it much more succulent and sweeeter than the clawned lobster. So made your own choices, you can use the Maine lobster or even prawn instead of spiny lobster for this recipe.

Chinese Style Steamed Whole Bamboo Lobster

Steaming whole lobster is tricky, timing is the key of any steaming seafood. DO NOT OVERCOOKED lobster because the lobster meat  gonna be tough and rubberry. Trust me, you won’t ever wanted to overcooked your pricey steamed live lobster. You should steamed the lobster until nearly done, the remaining heat will throughly cooked the lobster meat. When you throughly cooked  the lobster, it will be overcooked once you serving it in the dinner table. 7 to 10 minutes is what needed to steamed whole lobster in  medium size (about 300-500 grams).

Steamed Live Lobster with Superior Soy Sauce

The steamed lobster served with a dip of black vinegar, ginger and chopped bird eye chillies. Sounds boring, but trust me, your taste buds will apreciate the sweetness and the soft texture of the steamed live lobster. The steamed lobster with garlic, ginger, scallion and soy sauce is already delicious without any dipping actually, but it’s too obvious that anything taste better with chilies for my Indonesian licking.

Recipe Chinese Style Steamed Live Lobster (Cantonese Style Steamed Lobster with Superior Soy Sauce, Garlic, Ginger, Scallion and Cilantro)

Recipe Chinese Style Steamed Live Lobster (Cantonese Style Steamed Lobster with Superior Soy Sauce, Garlic, Ginger, Scallion and Cilantro)

Ingredients

• 1 medium size live bamboo lobster (you can replace with any kind of lobster or prawn)
  
• 1 tbsp lemon juice 
• 1 tbsp of brown sugar (or rock sugar)
  
• 2 tbsp of premium light soy sauce
• 1 tsp premium mushroom sauce
• 1/2 cup water
• 1/2 tsp of sesame oil
• 1 tbsp olive oil for stir frying
• 2 tbsp  of  angciu /chinese cooking wine
• 1/2 tbsp oyster sauce
• 3 cloves garlic, finely chopped
• 3 cm knob of ginger, finely chopped
• 1 scallion (white part only), finely chopped

How to Make Chinese Style Steamed Lobster:

• Mix all liquid ingredients and dissolved the rock sugar on it prior to steaming the lobster, set aside
• Rub the lobster lighly with salt and lemon juice, set aside
• Heat the olive oil in a wok until smoking hot, then stir fry the garlic, ginger and scallion until fragrant, charred and completely caramelized
  
• Pour the soy sauce mixture and bring it to boil, simmer for about 10 minutes, turn off the heat then set aside (i sieved it with cheese cloth before use),
• Put the lobster in heatproof steaming pyrex bowl, cover the bowl with alumunium foil
  
• Steam the lobster about 5- 7  minutes until done depending of the lobster size
• DO NOT OVERCOOKED, so check the steamed lobster in the  couple of last minutes
• Put the fish in a serving plate, garnish with chopped cilantro then pour the sesame oil

Garnish: Chopped cilantro

Dipping sauce *optional : Chinese Black Vinegar, Soy Sauce, Jullienned Ginger, Chopped Bird Eye Chillies

You May Also Like (Click!)

Recipe Homemade Chinese Sausage Lap Cheong or Dry Cured Pork Sausage

Homemade Lap Cheong or Waxed Chinese Sausage

Homemade Lap Cheong or Lap Chong Dried Chinese Sausage Recipe. Chinese sausage referring to many different types of dried and cured sausages originally in China.In Cantonese chinese sausage called Lap Cheong or Lap Chong, while in Mandarin it’s called  Là Cháng. In Indonesia, we used to called chinese sausage as sosis cina, lap chong, or sosis merah (red sausage). Chinese sausage  commonly made of fatty pork, either the fat is chuncky or well blended. Chinese sausage usually smoked, sweetened, and seasoned with chinese five spice powder ot ngo hiang seasoning, , rice wine and soy sauce. Premium quality chinese sausage got it’s distinct umami smells, just like a good old ham.

Homemade Lap Cheong or La Chang or Lap Chong or Sosis Cina or Sosis Merah

Chinese sausage is usually added to enhanced the umami flavour into a dish. Chinese sausage can be used for soup, stir fried and almost all rice dishes. Chinese sausage usually stir fried until charred and then added to Chinese style nasi goreng/fried rice and Lo Mai Gai or Steamed Sticky Rice with chicken, Abalone, Salted Egg Yolk and Mushrooms Stuffing in Lotus Leaves Wrap(/nuòmǐ jī), trust me that addition of chinese sausage made simple fried noodle or vermicelli into the next level of deliciousness. Well, actually i useed to replace any chorizo recipe with my homemade chinese sausage, infact i added chinese sausage as topping for Broccoli Crust Pizza Recipe, stuffing for my Nasi Bakar (Grilled Banana Leaf Wrapped Spiced Rice), Peanut Crusted Roasted and Stuffed Whole Beef Tenderloin, Steamed Glutinous/ Sticky Rice Roll and Claypot of Chicken, Tofu, Sea Cucumber and Mushrooms Recipe

Homemade Lap Cheong or Dried Chinese Sausage

Chinese sausage or lap cheong or la chang usually traditionally hung unpackaged in the  street market or wet markets in China town market anywhere nearby your place. Chinese sausage available in many forms of fat content, color and prices. Chinese sausage usually looks like a hard and waxy in the surface, although no wax added into it. I like chinese sausage with chuncky fat so it’s fat will renderred right after stir fried in a smoking hot wok pan and release it’s goodness and flavoured your entire rice or noodle cooked within it. Real thinsg isn’t cheap, that’s for damn sure, so i insist you to choose the expensive chinese sausage ones when you visit your chinese groceries.

Dried Waxed Chinese Sausage

Nice and Fatty Lap Cheong or Chinese Sausage

Before you considering to made your homemade chinese sausage or any other air dry cured meat, you should know about the savety about curing  first. Improper dry curing sausage can be derived to botulism, a serious, potentially fatal and lethaly disease. Botulism is an intoxication usually caused by ingestion of potent neurotoxins in contaminated foods. You should know first that the neurotoxin excrete by Clostridium botulinum bacteria. The  neurotoxin  destroyed by heating  more than 85 °C (185 °F) for more than 5 minutes, but the bacteria spores that are heat-resistant. The bacteria usually in a spores (inactive form) and usually germinate, grow and then excrete toxins in the low or absence of oxygen. So in my opinion the additional of nitrate (pink salt, salpetre etc) is absolutely  important because it’s an effective agent agains Clostridium botulinum.  Maybe you heard that nitrate are toxic, infact nitrosamines did. Nitrosamine formed when nitrate transform into nitrite then react with amino acids or very high heat. Nitrosamines are known to be powerful DNA damaging chemicals and resulting cell mutation and cancer. But don’t really bother about it, infact a single portion of spinach or celery contain more nitrosamines than you can imagine.How to made sausage without fancy  sausage maker is another question, eversince i din’t really want to investing pretty much $$$ for it, which mean i have to do is manually. Using my chopper or food processor is not a good option, because it’s too powerfull and can easily overdo the sausage stuffing grinding, beside the heat possibly melt the fat even i freeze it out priorly. So then i using my old school meat mincer knive and properly clean wood cutting board to diced the pork meat and a regular knive to diced the back fat.

My Own Dried Chinese Sausage or Lap Cheong Made Out of My Very Own Kitchen

Making my own chinese sausage or lap cheong  in my very humble amateur kitchen is one of my obsession. Eversince i start making charcuterie or dry aging meat, i was curious about homemade air dry curing sausage. Store brought chinese sausage  may contain tons of preservatives, color dying agent, and msg (monosodium glutamat) or other flavour enhanced agents. I didn’t added any msg on my homemade lap chong, instead i’m using palm sugar to enhance umami balance flavour with the salt, simply magic as what happen to salted caramel.

Homemade Chinese Sausage Stuffing

Before making homemade chinese sausage, you should know that the ammount of all the ingredients for making air dry cured sausages is properly measured, especially the amount of the nitrate preservatives. The recommendation maximum ammout of saltpetre (potassium nitrate) for dry curing is 500 ppm or 500 mg per kg sausage mixture. The salt ammount for dry ured sausage is about 3 % of the weight, you really take a close attention on it. The meat and fat ration is commonly 80% meat to 20% fat. The spice and flavour enhancement is another optional too. Eversince i like a fattyand chunky  chinese sausage or lap cheong, i’m using 40% fat on it. The best fat for dry curing is solid back fat because the soft fat like in the soft tissues is really easily rancid and turn into off smells and flavour. I’m using 500 grams of pork loin and 200 grams of pork back fat for this recipe, 3% salt means  21 grams and the amout of salpetre is about 350 mg. I also added 21 grams of palm sugar and 2 tablespoons of  Here’s the fun part, my digital weight scale can only measure 1 gram, so i need to put the 1 gram of saltpetre in a piece of paper and divided it into three part equally with my atm card and it made me thinking of myself “heck what i’m doing, my mom ganna be going crazy and beat the hell of my head because i obviously seems like a crack addict ” lol

Homemade Chinese Sausage

Most chinese sausage wrapped in an edible artificial casings, such as collagen and cellulose, but i really want the original version with natural pig intestine casing. Is it possible to making a dry cured sausage using natural pig intestine ? luckily the answer is YES. The pig small intestine is needed to be cured before the sausage hung to dry cured. The pig intestine cleaned inside out, you can read about How To Clean and Preparing Pig Intestine, then  salted to enhanced the self life. Simply ask your butcher for pig small intestine, he or she probably give it for free for you.

How to Stuffed Homemade Sausage Using Plastic Funnel

I’m using plasting funnel to stuffed the chinese sausage stuffing into the pork intestine. For unnecessary photography, i’m using spoon to plug the stuffing. Clean hand fingers or even chopstick is much more effective and fungtional for plug the sausage stuffing, just made sure you’re wearing a sterile gloves and sterilized chopstick otherwise it’s gonna be a mess. The end of the the pig intestine tie out after you finished stuffing to let the air released, slightly different with commonly people did because my plasting funnel tube didn’t long enought to be slipped with the intestine.

Homemade Fresh Chinese Sausage with Lots of Air Bubbles

After you stuffed your homemade chinese sausage stuffing into your pork intestine, the stuffing a little bit slippery on the instenstine because so many air bubble on it. The stuffing can be plugged better with your hand too, just squeese the stuffing out with the intestine tube to the end, then divide the sausage link by twisting and then tiding  it to made individual homemade fresh sausage

Prick The Sausage Using Sterilized Metal Pin to Removed the Air Bubbles

After peeling the remaining fat on the pig intestine, the fresh sausage looks more translucent. The air bublles then removed by pricking it with sterilized metal pin. Remember that this process also enhanced the sausage drying process too. Pricking the fresh pig intestine sausage also iniciate free oxigen entering the sausage stuffing and prevent Clostridium botulinum to grow.

Fresh Homemade Chinese Sausage: Ready to Hung to Air Dry Cured

The fresh pig intestine chinese sausage or lap cheong the hung to dry in a cold, good-ventilated and dark place, then left until dry and loosen 30 percent of it’s original weight.Make sure you notes the weight of the fresh sausage before you hung it and calculate the 30 percent loss from the original weight.  In my case, the fresh lap cheong sausage weight is 736 grams and the 30% loss is 216 grams, which means my chinese sausage is ready to be eaten (cooked first) when it’s weighted 52o grams.  Unfortunately, my homemade lap chong or chinese sausage a little bit forgotten in the fridge and the drying  goes a little bit too far until the  weight reach 393 grams in 30 days (24 october-22 november 2014).

The Chinese Sausage Hung Dry In the Fridge Alongside my Homemade Lamb Pancetta

If you living in  a tropical country like indonesia, i guess it’s possible to left the fresh sausage hung to dry curing in room temperature because it’s too hot and too humid. You can use your refrigerator for dry it, just made sure you cleaned out your fridge. Simply left it hung undisturbed in the fridge doorin the ideal fridge temperature (about 1– 4°C or 33 – 39°F) and the fridge humidity in “dry mode”. Do not open the fridge door too often since the temperature will fluctuated and made the lap cheong taste funny.

The Finished Product of My Homemade Chinese Sausage or Lap Cheong

Homemade Lap Cheong or Waxed Chinese Sausage

This is my homemade lap cheong or chinese waxed  sausage lool a like after air dry cured in the fridge after 30 days. The sausage looked great dark plum in colour with chunky bits of fat meat showing inthe surface. Nice umami with distict anise smells comes out of it and the taste just perfect for my licking; fatty, savoury and sweet. Totally better than the store brought. The lean loin meat has shrunk a lot, but i guess the fat didn’t. Because i didn’t use any artificial filler, the weight losen out in a greatlyI think the fat meat is a little on the high side. Next time I will reduce it to around 28 – 30% : lean meat. To keep the homemade lap cheong in fridge or freezer. If you want to keep them for longer than 2 – 3 weeks, best in freezer. I don’t really know if it will go mouldy or turn racid if you leave it in the fridge for too long, but i guaranteed that i won’t be last than longer before ended out in my tummy.

Recipe Homemade Lap Cheong or Dried Chinese Sausage

Recipe Homemade Chinese Sausage or Lap Cheong:

Ingredients: (i’m using half of the recipe)

• 1 kg pork loin
• 400 grams pork back fat
• 2-3  pig intestine, cleaned (2-3 m sausage casing)
• 1 cup salt to salted the pig intestine
• 42 grams salt
• 42 grams palm sugar
• 700 milligrams saltpetre (0,7 grams)
• 4 tablespoons chinese five spice powder
• 2 tablespoons soy sauce
• 2 tablespoons chinese rice wine

How to Make Homemade Chinese Sausage or Lap Cheong:

• Measure the weight of each ingredients properly
• Clean out and sterilize all of the utensils
• Mix and rub the salt to the pig intestine, let is marinated about 24 hours in the fridge, washed it properly under running water and drain in properly, set aside
• Meanwhile, dice the meat and fat with a knife into half cm cubes.
• Combine all the seasoning in a large mixing bowl.
• Add the meat and fat and mix well and let soak overnight in the fridge.
• Stuffed the chinese sausage stuffing to the pig intestine using the plastic funnel and chopsticks or finger.
• Tie off one end of chinese sausage casing and then plugged out the stuffing to the tie
• Tie the casing into 15cm links.
• Prick the links and the sausage all over with a sterilized metal pin to allow the  air bubbles to escape from the sausage.
• Hang them to dry in a well ventilated place until dehyrated and losen it’s 30 percent of it’s original weight.

You May Also Like:

Recipe Turkey Leg Confit with Mashed Celeriac Celery Root

Turkey Leg Confit with Mashed Celeriac/Celery Root

Recipe Turkey Confit in Herbs and Duck Fat, served with Mashed Celeriac or Celery Root.  Confit (French) pronounced as  “con-fee” is slow cooking method in French culinary.  Confit contains various kinds of food that submerged in oil and then heated  for a long period. Confit is one of the oldest ancient meat preserving method. The confit then  sealed and stored in a cool place last and last for several months.Confit is whe best way to preserved a game birds, Duck Confit Recipe (confit de canard) and Goose Confit Recipe (confit d’oie) are usually used the leg part, the breast isn’t taste that good to be confit because it’s too stringy and had less fat and connective tissues to renderred. The turkey is salted and seasoned with herbs, and slowly cooked submerged in  rendered fat, in which it is then preserved by allowing it to cool and storing it in the fat. Meat confits are a specialty of the southwest of France. I guess confit is one of the most popular French dish throughly worldwide.

Turkey Confit with Crispy Skin and Tender Meat

Making turkey leg confit recipe with crispy skin, while the meat is still tender and succulent is actually quite tricky. You need to follow several steps, first the turkey leg is rubbed with salt, garlic, and sometimes herbs such as thyme, rosemarry and bayleaf then covered and refrigerated for up to 36 hours. Salt-curing the turkey meat acts as a preservative. Prior to cooking, the spices are rinsed from the meat, which is then patted dry. The meat is placed in a cooking dish deep enough to contain the meat and the rendered fat, and placed in an oven at a low temperature (76 – 135 C /170 – 275 ).  The fat or oil should not be boiling into a large bubble, but gently little bubbles one at a time would be break the surface. The meat is slowly poached  until cooked, or until meltingly tender, generally four to ten hours. The turkey confit  then put into 220C oven and then roasted until charred and the fat dripping out from the turkey meat. You can simply seared the turkey leg confit as the commonly restaurant chef did too actually.

Delicious Turkey Leg Confit

Turkey Leg fot Confit

I found this turkey leg for making turkey confit in Ranch Market Supermarket Jakarta. Cost me about IDR999.000 (USD10) fer kg of it. I purchased 2 whole leg of turkey and it weighed about 1 kg. Turkey isn’t a common source of protein here in Indonesia, so i pretty damn lucky to spot those gigantic turkey leg. This is the second turkey recipe in my blog and i can’t wait to had another since i love turkey. I made Wine Braised Turkey Leg Recipe with Roasted Summer Vegetables before, then i think i should try to confit the turkey because i still saving the duck fat dripping from making Homemade Roasted Peking Duck with Chinese Pancake Recipe.

Tender and Fallen Off the Bone Turkey Confit

Succulent and Tender Turkey Confit Meat

How does the turkeys meat taste like, well it almost like chicken but slighly gamey. properly cooked turkey like this turkey leg confit is delicious, i guess you pretty much as you appreciate chicken. Turkey leg is of course lots more bigger than chicken le, so i had to cut the whole turkey leg in three for individual portion. Turkey meat is more stringy than chicken and it’s totally tender and melt in the mouth once it cooked properly.

Turkey Confit Served with Mashed Celeriac, Sauteed Vegetables and Enoki Mushrooms Tempura

Celeriac or Celery Root

I prefer to served my turkey confit with mashed celeriac. Celeriac (Apium graveolens var. rapaceum), also called turnip celery,knob celery or simply celery root is a gourmet imported vegetables here in Indonesia. I found celery root in Kem Chick Supermarket for IDR177.000 (18USD) per kg, the price tag is definitely such a pain in the arse but i guess my adventurous culinary instinct win. Mashed celeriac is one of my favourite carbs now, definitely worth to try. If you like celery stalk, i guess you’ll diggin mashed celeriac too. To add some crunch, i served the turkey confit with Deep Fried Enoki Mushrooms Tempura.

Recipe Turkey Confit in Herbs and Duck Fat

Recipe Turkey Confit in Herbs and Duck Fat:

Ingredient :

• 2 turkey legs, cut into pieces
• 4-6 cups duck fat ( I use 1 cup duck fat and 3 cups vegetable oil)
• 1/4 cup  salt
• 2 tsp dried thyme
• 1 tsp dried rosemarry
• 1 tsp freshly ground pepper (plus 1 tbsp extra)
• 1/4  tsp freshly grated nutmeg
• 1o garlic cloves, bruised (plus 2 tbsp)

How to Make Herbs Turkey Leg Confit :

• Pat dry the turkey leg  then rub all ingredient  to the turkey t=leg (except the oil), refrigerate for about 24  hours
• Discard any liquid that derived from the turkey meat and gently washed the salt mixture with warm water and don’t over do this steps of you’ll gonna get tasteless confit, pat dry
• Rub the turkey leg with another 1 tsp ground black pepper and 2 tbsp chopped garlic
• Put the turkey leg on the heavy bottom crock pot and pour the duck fat and vegetable oil until the turkey leg is totally submerged about 1 inch, then add the bruised garlic.
• Cook the mixture in a very low flame until a very gentle little bubble comes out, cook about 4-12 hour until the turkey leg meat is fallen off the bone
• Drain well, and you can save this in a fridge for up to 6 month with the meat totally submerge in the oil.
• Just before serving, pan fry or simply roasted the duck confit until crisp up.
• Serve the turkey leg confit with mashed celeriac or celery.

Mashed Celeriac or Celery Root

Mashed Celeriac Recipe:

• 1 medium size (about 500g) celeriac, trimmed, peeled, coarsely chopped
• 3 large  potatoes (about 500 gr), peeled, coarsely chopped
• 1/4 tsp Homemade Garam Masala powder
• 2 tbsp chopped fresh basil leaves
• 1/3 cup cooking cream
• 2 tbsp  butter
  
• water to boil the potato and celeriac

How to Make Mashed Celeriac:

•  Place the potato, celeriac and garlic in a large saucepan and cover with cold water.
• Bring it to the boil over medium-high heat then reduce heat to medium-low
• Simmer for 15-20 minutes or until the celeriac and potato fork tender, drain and return to the pan
• Use a potato masher to mash until smooth. Add the cream, butter and garam masala, and mash until combined
• Taste and season with salt and white pepper and garnished with basil leaves

You May Also Like(Click!)

 

Coffee & Chili Crusted Dry Aged Beef Ribeye Steak with Savoury Chocolate Sauce

Coffee Chili Crusted Steak with Savoury Chocolate Sauce

Recipe Coffee and Chili Rubbed Steak with Savoury Chocolate Sauce.  Can you imagine coffee and chocolate flavour paired with beef steak ? sounds odd, but i guess you should try it first then made your own verdict. This post is the answer for the challenge from one of my fellow colleagues. She ask me to made a delicious steak with a US choice a.k.a cheap steak eversince she only know that most of my beef steak recipe made of US Prime Beef or Japanese Wagyu Beef. Well, actually i already made dry aging tenderloin from a local beef and cook it into Dry Aged Tenderloin Steak with Spicy Blue Cheese, Chili, Basil and Caramelized Onion Butter. Eversince she’s favourite cut of beef is ribeye, i made this recipe with it.

Recipe Chili and Coffee Rubbed Ribeye Steak with Savoury Chocolate Sauce

Medium Rare Perfectly Seared Coffee and Chili Rubbed Dry Aged Ribeye Steak

The coffee rubbed steak didn’t taste bitter at all, that’s for damn sure ! Since it was my first hesitation once i read my fellow friend post Coffee Crusted Steak Recipe, i guess i’ll probably regret if i didn’t gi it a shoots then. The acid content on the coffee works as a natural tenderizer for the steak, it also infused a pleasant coffee aromas and tangy flavour into it.  To accompany my chili and coffee rubbed ribeye steak, i paired it with savoury chocolate sauce.

Coffee & Chili Crusted Dry Aged Beef Steak with Savoury Chocolate Sauce

Recipe Perfectly Seared Coffee and Chili Crusted Fridge Dry Aged Beef Ribeye, No One Recognize It’s From Cheap Piece of Steak!

The perfect ribeye steak must be fullfilled my check list. The texture of perfect steak must be tender and bounchy with slighy chewy once you had your first bite. The meat must be moist  and juicy on the inside while the outside of the beef charred and seared to lock out the beef juice. The perfect medium rare steak got a deep red color and the grey area is less than 3 mm from the edge.  Perfecly medium rare steak just cooked until the marbled fat within the flesh renderred and melted in the mouth. The perfect beef steak must have intense and deep beefy flavour too, can i had this all perfect steak requirements from the supermarket cheap individual  steak ?

Perfect Coffee and Chili Rubbed Ribeye Steak with Savoury Dark Chocolate Sauce

The real question is can i made the perfect ribeye steak with a regular or cheap US choice cut of steak. Now the pressure point, my friend is quite a cheap lady, but she wanted something taste fancy on her plate without paying quite an effort and cost for it. Well, i guess my refrigerator dry aging is the answer to had a delicious steak from a cheap ribeye steak. Unfortunately, my previously Dry Aging Beef Tenderloin in The Home Refrigerator recipe takes 14 days to change a relatively cheap local beef tenderloin into a prime steak house quality tenderloin steak taste a like. Commercially dry beef aging is the whole cut of beef placed in a controlling enviroment in 1– 4°C (33 – 39°F) temperature, and 80–85% relative humidity and some air velocity. It works with my cheap whole tenderloin beef, but would it works with individual steak cut regular ribeye? Can i dry aging individual steak cut in my fridge ? Seriouseats say No, but i said YES!!! i tried it myself. The princip of this home refrigerator dry aging individual steak is to let some moistures evaporated from the steak for consentrate the flavour without completely drying it off and let the microbial organism and natural enzyms works jut enought to break down the meat collagen and tenderize the beef  without further rotten it.

How to Dry Aging Individual Beef Steak in The Fridge

How to dry aging the individual steak (about 1-2 inches thickness with 300-500 grams weight beef steak) in the fridge is done by placing the unwrapped sliced steak above metal wire rack and left it undisturbed for commonly 2 days in the ideal fridge temperature (about 1– 4°C or 33 – 39°F) and the fridge humidity in “dry mode”. Unfortunately this procedure didn”t change much of the beef flavour and the texture instead slighly drying and consentrate the beef flavour. Simply by adjusting the refrigerator temperature from ideal to 6-10°C (42 – 50°F) by rotate the temperature console in the refrigerator until without changing the humidity setting.

This temperature allow the decomposition microbial bacteria and fungi and also the natural enzymes works better. To make sure the air circulating well surround the beef,  i let it sit in the middle fridge rack for itself. To observed your refrigerator temperature is ight, put digital thermometer and abandoned it 50 minutes inside the fridge (just where you place your beef) then adjust the console until your ideal 8°C termperature is reached. Never set higher temperature than 10°C because the beef will be spoilage due to excessive microbial growth. The beef  collagen break down process by the friendly microbial organism ideally take only 2-3 day , at this period some of the steak cut beef ribeye moisture evaporated and made the flavour consentrated while the collagen is break down but not yet spoilaged.

Dry Aged Beef Ribeye Individual Steak in 8°C Refrigerator and Relative Dry Humidity for 3 Days

This is how individual ribeye steak look a like after dry aged 3 days in the home refrigerator in about 6-10°C (42 – 50°F) temperature with a relatively dry humidity.  The fridge dry aged ribeye steak outer layer turn into waxy and firmer texture when you touch it. The dry aged beef got a dark red color. Strong beefy aromas comes from the dry aged beef  once you smells it. No need to trimmed off the  waxy outer layer layer, because it’s quite thin and yet still edible without any slime, mold or bizzare smells on it’s surface, so i can tell you this steak is still good to eat.

I even try to prolonged dry aged another individual steak in the 6-10°C (42 – 50°F) fridge for 4 and 5 days and it turn into a bizzare and unpleasing smells once it cooked even there’s no trace of mold on it. Prolonged periode (more than 5 days) of dry aging using individual steak cut beef  made the steak outer layer unedible thought and dry, unless the microbial organisms rotten and molded the steak, the remaining edible meat is too thin after the unedible layer trimmed off.

Coffee and Chili Rubs For Beef Steak Ingredients

The coffee and chili crusted seasoning for the beef steak made of ground coffee, smoked paprika powder, dry chili flakes, freshly ground black peppercorn and Homemade Garam Masala Powder. I also add some brown sugar and salt on the coffee rub mixture to season and marinade the beef steak for at least 45 minutes prior to cooking. I’m using  genuine Indonesian civet cofee for this steak recipe, it has very pleasant tangy fruity body and it goes well to seasoned my Grilled Pork Belly with Coffee Glaze Recipe. The chili flakes, garam masala, black peppercorn and smoked paprika made complex flavour of spicy, coffee, peppery, hot and smokey for the beef steak.

Coffee and Chili Marinated Beef Ribeye Steak

The ribeye steak rubbed goodly with the civet coffee powder, chili flakes, smoked paprika powder, brown sugar and salt mixture and then drizzled with olive oil. The dry aged ribeye steak then left in the room temperature for at least 45 minutes prior to cooking. The salt driven out the moisture from the beef and made the salt dissolved and infused the dripping with the coffee crust mixture. The dripping  then penetrated again into the meat after 1 hours marinated. The osmosis process infused the tangy civet coffee flavour, spicy chili, garam masala and black peppercorn alongside with smokey paprika powder, just perfect to seasoned my dry aged ribeye steak.

Perfectly Seared Coffee and Chili Crusted Beef Ribeye with Savoury Dark Chocolate Sauce

How to perfectly seared the ribeye steak util the steak outer layer charred and middle cooked it into medium rare. I like to  use Heston Blumenthal method, but i guess the  the coffee and chilli rubs gonna be burned in seconds, so i wipe out the marinade a little bit. After i heat the cast iron frypan until sizzling hot, i mean very-very hot until it freakingly mad smoking. Never forget to turn off your smoke alarm before you cooking the steak and luckily i don’t have one. You can use your stopwatch for countdown, but i’m using my mind as i used to be countdown the time for composite dental filling light cure. I put the steak on the pan and allow it to cook for 15 seconds then turn it over every 15 seconds until the middle temperature reach 130 to 135 F. (55 to 57  C.)

Savoury Chocolate Sauce with Bacon, Chili Flakes, Caramelized Onion and Shallots

Savoury Chocolate Sauce with Dry Aged Beef Ribeye Steak

The recipe of savoury chocolate sauce for beef steak is quite simple too. First you should know that dark chocolate is more preferred because milk chocolate or over-swetened chocolate turn into funny taste sauce. I’m using 70 percent cocoa dark chocolate block (Gourmet chocolate, yes this is pricey! just don’t let my friend know about it). To add the savoury taste to the bitter sweet dark chocolate, i add salted butter and finely chopped bacon for it. Beside,  some caramelized onion, shallots and garlic add to complexion of sweet  flavour and the last ingredients is too obvious for my Indonesian licking, chili flakes!  Hot and spicy made everything taste even better.

Recipe Coffee and Chili Crusted Steak with Dry Aged Ribeye Beef

Recipe Coffee and Chili Crusted Steak with Dry Aged Ribeye Beef:

Ingredients:

• 2 @300 gr ribeye steak with 1.5 inches thickness (dry aged in relatively dry 8°C refrigerator for 3 days)
• 2 tbsp melted butter
• 2 tbsp olive oil

Recipe Coffee and Chili Rubs for Marinating  Beef Steak:

• 2 tablespoons ground civet coffee
• 1 tablespoon chili flakes
• 1 tablespoon smoked paprika powder
• 1 tablespoon ground black peppercorn
• 1/2 teaspoon Homemade Garam Masala powder
• 1/2 teaspoon dark brown sugar
• Salt to taste
• olive oil for drizzling

How to Make Coffee and Chili Rubbed Dry Aged Beef Ribeye Steak Recipe:

• Unwrap your ribeye steak and pat dry, put it above wire rack in the middle of your fridge rack
• Set  the refrigeraor in a “dry mode” and adjust the temperature console until the refrigerator temperature between 6-10°C (42 – 50°F)
• Let the steak dry aging  and sit undisturbed for 2 days (prevent to open the door since the temperature will fluctuated)
  
• Take the steaks out of the fridge for a couple of hours and reach the room temperature prior to cooking
  
• Rub all the dry aged ribeye steak with the coffee and chilli rub mixture
• let the cofee and chili rub marinade the steak for about 1 hour
  
• Heat up your skillet until as hot as possible
• Set your stopwatch to countdown the time
• Scrap off some of the coffee and chili rubs mixture from the beef steak surface just before cooking
• Just before searing, pour the  olive oil and melted butter to the pan
• Put the coffee and chili marinated ribeye steak to the pan and cook it for 15 seconds.
• Flip the steak over and over again every 15 seconds until it’s got a nice charred and crusted surface for about totally 2 minutes
• Check the dry aged wagyu beef steak doneness (medium rare is preferred) with meat thermometer until reached about 55°C and let it rest for at least 5 minutes
• Served the Coffee and Chili Crusted Ribeye Steak with Savoury Chocolate Sauce
  

Recipe Savoury Chocolate Sauce:

Ingredients:

• 100 grams 70% Cocoa Dark Chocolate Block
• 50 gr Bacon or prosciutto, finely chopped
• 1/2 cup Worchestershire Sauce
• 1/2 cup Superior Beef Stock or Broth
• 1 medium size Onion, finely chopped
• 3 cloves Garlic, finely chopped
• 1 Shallots finely chopped
• 1 tbsp Chili Flakes
• 2 tbsp Salted butter
• Salt and Pepepr to taste
• 1 tbsp Olive Oil

Hor to Make Savoury Chocolate Sauce Recipe:

• Heat the olive oi and butter in the sauce pan
• Add the onion, shallots and garlic, saute until browned and caramelized
• Add the bacon and saute until the fat renderred then add the chili flakes
• Pour the broth and worchested sauce, then put the dark chocolate sauce
• Bring to boil and simmer until thicken
• Served the Savoury Chocolate Sauce with Coffee and ChiliCrusted Dry Aged Beef Ribeye Steak

You May Also Like (Click!)

Recipe Tonkotsu Ramen (Japanese Pork Bone Noodle Soup) with Chashu Pork Belly & Shoyu Tamago Soy Sauce Marinated Soft Boiled Egg

Homemade Tontkotsu Ramen Recipe

Japanese Tonkotsu Ramen Soup Recipe. Tonkotsu ramen soup is made from stock based on pork bone, combined with a variety of seasoning  such as garlic, onion, shiitake mushrooms stalk and sometimes kombu (kelp/seaweed) and then flavored with salt, miso, or soy sauce. Ramen itself is the Japanese pronunciation of the Chinese noodle called lamian. Tonkotsu ramen was probably the most earthy and well known Japanese pork noodle soup around the world.

Japanese Tonkotsu Ramen with Sliced Chashu Pork Belly and Shoyu Tamago

Tonkotsu is (豚骨, “pork bones) while ramen is a thin wheat flour and egg noodle.  Tonkotsu ramen noodle soup usually has a cloudy white colored with a thick gooey broth consistency. The taste of many many hours of boiled pork bones it’s too obviously taste slurping delicious. The tonkotsu soup made of colagenous and cartilageous pork parts that boiled slowly and gently until it’s transform it’s colagen into gelatin. Gelatin is the thickening agent for the tonkotsu broth while the bone marrow, caltilageous bone, soft tissue and meat is the flavour sources. Most people adore gelatinous hearthy soup, especially asian. The gooey gelatin texture is what high end and expensive Chinese Budha Jump Over The Wall, Braised Shark Fin Soup Recipe, Braised Fish Maw Recipe and Braised Sea Cucumber Recipe all about

Perfect Bowl of Tonkotsu Ramen with Chashu, Char Siew and Shoyu Tamago and Sweet Corn

I want to share how i made my perfect bowl of tonkotsu ramen. The basic recipe for making a delicious Japanese tonkotsu ramen soup is PATIENCE, lots and lots of it, not to mention you should be a generous with your gas or electric bills too. I can asure you all the effort for making this homemade tonkotsu ramen will be paid off  when you slurrping the ramen noodle within the broth. You can called me a cheap person,  but i kinda tricked my pregnant oldest sister to made this in her kitchen. She just a lil bit a shocker once i said i want to made a tonkotsu ramen or Japanese style pork bone noodle soup, “i thought you’ll gonna made something fancy recipe like Peanut Crusted Roasted Whole Beef Tenderloin with Gorgonzola and Spinach Stuffing“she replied. “Well,  what made it’s special then ?” she asked me again, it’s gonna take 16 hours all the way to break the pork colagen into gelatin and it’s for real damn 16 hours i replied. “You better be made the tonkotsu pork bone soup right “” she made her final statement.

Homemade Tonkotsu Ramen Recipe From Scratch

Homemade tonkotsu ramen recipe is a foolproof recipe, no need to fancy all the professional ramen kitchen steps if you didn’t bother about how your tonkotsu broth look a like. Tonkotsu ramen gonna be taste SLURRPING DELICIOUS, by throw all the ingredients into the pot and add lots of water, boil and let’s the time do the magic. If you gor a little bit more patience and passionate about making a perfect and authentic tonkotsu soup with it’s all  thick, whitish creamy, slurrpy, and flavoursome distinct characteristics, you should following my of easy tips and tricks for making tonkotsu ramen soup. This are the three basic component of tonkotsu Ramen:

Part 1: The Tonkotsu Ramen Broth or Pork Bone Soup

Pork Bone (Ham/Leg Bone and Back Bone), Wild Boar Meaty Ribs for Delicious Tonkotsu Ramen

First you should choose the best quality of pork bone for making your homemade tonkotsu ramen broth. I’m using a combination of a very meaty wild boar ribs and backbone and also farmed raised pig leg bone for this recipe. Wild boar or wild pork leg bone is more preferred for tonkotsu broth because it’s got more rich and complex flavour and also less fat than the regular pork. But my batch of pork leg is made me happy thou, simply because the butcher is too generous to let a lot of meat attached to the bone. I replace the pig trotter with chicken feet because the butcher already run out of it even i’m stopping by at 10 a.m. Beside, you can use other  collagenous and cartilageous parts of the pig like skin and any pork bones including the compact and the flat bone. The bone marrow would be dissolved and released it’s natural umami glutamic flavour. Authentic japanese style pork broth using pork back fat, but  i think this “lean” version is sinsfully delicious enought, instead  i reduce the floated rendered fat on the tonkotsu ramen broth later on.

Boiled Pork Bone for Tonkotsu Ramen Broth

Once you had the pork pone, now you ready to making tonkotsu ramen broth. Plenty of cold water poured into a large pot, and bring  to boiled.  All the bone (pork bone, wild boar ribs, and chicken feet) throwed into the hot boiling water then cook for 1 minute. The heat was turned off and  the pork bone and chicken feet drained. The water discarded and the pot was cleaned.  Any bloody stain and black vein in the pork bone trimmed off then rinsed under cold running water. The  pork bone, chicken feet, few bulbs of garlic, white part of spring onion quartered onions and sliced ginger into the pot then plenty of clean water  poured and the mixture  boiled with high heat.

Skimmed Off Tonkotsu Ramen Broth Soup from Scum and Foam

The tonkotsu ramen broth needed to simmer into a low heat once it boiled. All the floating scum and foam gently skimmed off from the both surface with a soup ladle. If you skipped this step the final tonkotsu broth gonna be dirty. Just look at the photograph, the scum looks really gross eventhough it didn’t much effect the taste of the broth. The best way to observed that you boiled your tonkotsu broth correctly is to only few bubble comes out once in a time from the broth. The boiled pork bone broth stop bubbled gas out after you open the lid for about 1 minutes.

Tonkotsu Ramen Soup Broth: 2 hours boiled (thin and translucent)

After 2 hours boiled in a very low heat, the tonkotsu ramen broth already look like a broth. The texture and the consistency  didn’t changed much and there’s a noticeable floated fat on it. The 2 hours wild boar tonkotsu ramen broth color is still translucent and very pale whitish creamy.

Tonkotsu Ramen Soup Broth: 4 hours boiled (slighly thick and opaque)

The tonkotsu ramen broth with wild boar ribs, regular pork bone and chicken feet got a slighly thicker consistency and a little bit opaque right after boiled for about 4 hours. Almost all the surface of the tonkotsu ramen broth covered with rendered fat.

Tonkotsu Ramen Soup Broth: 6 hours boiled ( thicker and opaque)

After 6 hours boiled, the homemade tonkotsu ramen broth from scratch now looks much more opaque and the gelatine was partially released from the pork bone and chicken feet. I you want to continue to boil the tonkotsu broth, you definitely need to add more water to replace the evaporated water. The smells of pork bone the broth is  now really heavenly and the texture of the dissolved gelatin made the consistency even thicker. I stop boiling the tonkotsu ramen broth because it’s already 1 a.m and then 1 put the broth in the fridge.

Chilled Tonkotsu Ramen Broth, Remove the Solid fat!

The 6 hours of boiled tonkotsu ramen broth taken out from fridge firstly in the morning. The chilled broth looks like a firm jelly and covered with white fat.  The fat is really easy to be removed from the pork bone broth because it’s still very firm solid.

Clear 6 Hours Gently Boiled or Simmered Tonkotsu Ramen Broth

This is what you got from 6 hours boiled tonkotsu pork bone soup. The  tonkotsu broth jelly looks really clear because i boiled it gently, istead it’s gonna be more opaque. I was very careful to maintain the tonkotsu broth heat simmer so low that only a few bubbles at a time would break the surface.

Crack Open Pork Leg Bone to Expose the Bone Marrow for Rich and Creamy Tonkotsu Ramen

I craked open the pork bone leg to expose the bone marrow to make sure all the goodness flavour of the pork infused into the tonkotsu ramen broth. I think i’m glad that i previously removed the fat from the broth because it already got more delicious fat once the bone marrow fat rendered. i using a stone pestle to crack open the compact pork leg bone and i guess you should really put your back into it, thinking about my ex-girlfriend really helped too! lol

Tonkotsu Ramen Soup Broth: 10 hours boiled (thick and opaque, the meat still attached to the bone)

This is 10 hours boiled tonkotsu ramen pork bone stock look a like. The texture and the consistency  is very thick and there’s a renderred bone marrow fat on top of it. The chicken feet was very tender and few of the meat still attached in the pork bone. Please Be carefull when you handle the boiling tonkotsu ramen broth because it’s really freaking hot.  The dissoved gelatin is non-volatile substance that made fewer water molecules at the broth surface which made fewer amount of water can escape.  This effect is called reducing the vapor pressure and increasing the boiling point of the broth,  you know actually i can’t even believe that i still remember the high schools chemistry class lesson.

Tonkotsu Ramen Soup Broth: 12 hours boiled (thick and opaque, the meat is compeletely fallen off the bone)

The 12 hours tonkotsu ramen broth even more opaque  and very-verythick. All the meat is fall off fhom the pork bone and i can even recognize the garlic, onion and chicken feet. I also add about one  and half of water and bring it to boil and simmer for another 4 hours.

Done Tonkotsu Ramen Soup Broth: 16 hours boiled (rich, creamy and slurrping delicious)

The final 16 hours  tonkotsu broth  is done now. It’s really a devine and superb whitish tonkotsu stock got rich, creamy, and all the savoury goodness on it. I drained and sived the broth from the solid ingredients and literrary cross my finger above my head. Two things i really happy about my tonkotsu broth, first i done it right and the second fact that  i didn’t paid for the gas bill, lol

The Remaining Bone and Meat from Making Tonkotsu Ramen Broth: Soft Enough to Crushed with finger

After 16 hour boiled gently the pork bone is literrary soft and crushable with fingers. All the meat was falen off the bone and i can barely seen any chicken feet on it. The tonkotsu broth was sieved with cheese cloth and then i enjoyed the remaining solid ingredients. The remaining meat can be added to flavoured savoury fritter  or pancake like my Homemade Zuchinni Pancake Recipe istead of thrown out into the garbage can.

Thick and Perfect Tonkotsu Ramen with Distict Gelatin Film on the Surface of the Broth

The perfect consistency of tonkotsu ramen is thick and slighly gooey. The boiling hot tonkotsu ramen soup form a very thin gelatin once you poured it into a serving bowl. This thin film is dissolved right away once i stirred it and it’s the guaranty of slurrping delicious tonkotsu ramen Japanese pork bone noodle soup.

Tonkotsu Ramen Topping Chashu Pork Belly, Barbequed Char Siew Pork, Soy Marinated Soft Boiled Egg, Pork Intestine, Sweet Corn, Mayu Oil, and Spring Onion

Part 2: Tonkotsu Ramen Topping

The tonkotsu pork topping is the generally chashu pork belly, shoyu tamago or soy sauce soft boiled egg, Chinese Style Char Siew Barbequed Pork, mayu oil or blackened garlic infused sesame oil, chopped spring onion and sweet corn.. Beside that i also add some thousand layer pork intestine because i had leftover pork intestine from making Homemade Chinese Sausage or lap Cheung. If you interesting to made your own chinese thousand layer braised pork intestine, you can prepare it with Annielicious Pork Intestine Recipe. The shoyu tamago made the soft boiled egg by boilling egg in 5-6 minutes and then put it into ice water to stop the cooking process. The soft boiled egg then soaked in dark soy sauce until used as tonkotsu ramen topping.

Chashu Japanese Braised Pork Belly Roll

The recipe of chashu pork for tonkotsu ramen broth is really simple. The pork belly is rolled into a cylindrical tube and then tide up with sewing twines. Choose the same thickness of pork belly to make a really fine rolled chashu pork. The rolled chashu pork belly than braised slowly in a shoyu or Japanese soy sauce broth, mirin and sake. I also seasone the chashu pork with chili, five spice powder, ginger and garlic. I also braised my thousant layered pork intestine on it too

Part 3: The Tonkotsu Ramen Noodle

Tonkotsu Ramen with Less Calories Egg Noodle

Any kind of ramen noodle is suits for this tonkotsu ramen recipe. Ramen comes in various shapes and lengths. It may be thick, thin, or even ribbon-like, as well as straight or wrinkled, so be creative! I using a think less calories fresh organic egg noodle in the supermarket, this made me feeling less guiil for slurring this fatty tonkotsu ramen.

Tonkotsu Ramen Recipe

Tonkotsu Ramen Recipe:

A. Recipe  Homemade 16 Hours Tonkotsu Ramen Broth:

• 1.5 kg pork leg bone
• 1.5 kg wild boar or pork ribs (choose the meaty one)
• 500 gr chicken feet
• about 8 L water (and extra)
• 50 gr dried  shiitake mushrooms stalk, sliced *optional
• 1 onion, quartered
• 2 whole bulbs garlic
• thumb size ginger, bruised
• Salt and pepper to taste

How to Make 16 Hours Tonkotsu Ramen Broth :

•  Clean the pork bones and chicken feet thoroughly to get rid of the extra blood.
• Put plenty of water, just enough to cover the pork bones and bring it to boil for about 2 minutes.
• Throw this water completely and clean all the cooked bones under running water once again, remove any bloody stain and blackish vein from the bone.
• Add the cleaned pork bones, chicken feet, onions, bulbs of garlic and ginger and add  to 8 L of water and boil under high heat, turn the heat into simmer once it boiled.
• Skim off the foam scum from the surface with soup ladle.
• Simmer and boil the tonkotsu broth for about 6 hours with lid cover, stirring once every 30 minutes.
• After 6 hours, transfer the tonkotsu broth to chilled in the fridge until firm, removed the fat from the broth.
• Cracked open the pork leg bone with stone pestle to expose the bone marrow.
• Boiled the tonkotsu broth with low heat for another 10 hours
• Adjust the amount of water until the finish soup volume is about 5 Litre
• Strained the tonkotsu soup with cheese cloth to separate the tonkotsu broth from the solid ingredients.

B. Recipe Chashu (Japanese Style Rolled Braised Pork Belly):

• 1 kg skin-on pork belly (choose the same thickness)
• ½ cup shoyu/Japanese Soy sauce
• ½ cup sake
• ½ cup mirin
• 2 tbsp brown Sugar
• Spring onion greens (white part only)
• 5 cm ginger, thinly sliced
• 6 cloves of garlic, bruised
• 1/2 tbsp chinese five spice
• 6 chillies, roughly choppped
• about 2 cup of water
• salt and pepper to taste

How to Make Chashu Japanese Style Braised Pork Belly:

• Roll the pork belly and tie it properly with sewing twines, so that the roll doesn’t open up.
• Put all the chashu pork belly ingredients in a pot.
• Bring it to boil and braised it until tender for Bout 45 minutes.
• Remove the chashu from the pot and let it cool at room temperature.
• Remove the twines and cut the roll into circles of desired thickness.

C. Shoyu Tamago Recipe (Japanese Soy Sauce Marinated Soft Boiled Egg)

• 10 eggs, room temperature
• water
• ice water
• 1 cup light soy sauce
• 1/4 cup dark soy sauce

How to make Shoyu Tamago Japanese Soy Sauce Marinated Soft Boiled Egg:

• Bring the water to boil with high heat
• Turn the heat into low and then put the egg
• Boil the egg for about 5-6 minutes for gooey soft boiled egg and more for firmer boiled egg< turn the egg around every minutes to make sure the egg cooked evenly
• Put the soft boiled egg in ice water to stop the cooking process
• Peel the egg then put it in a shoyu soy sauce mixture
• Incase the egg didn’t compeletely submerged, add some cloth to cover the egg to made the shoyu absorbed to the cloth and all the unsubmerged  egg surface.

You May Also Like (Click!)

Resep Sate Buntel Kambing Solo (Spicy Lamb Kebab Wrapped in Caul Fat Recipe)

Sate Buntel Khas Solo

Resep Sate Buntel khas Solo dan Surakarta. Sate buntel derived from the Indonesian word sate (pronounced: satay); a grilled skewered meat dish, while buntel means  wrapped bump or parcel. Sate Buntel or caul fat wrapped kebab is originally from Solo or Surakarta, Central Java, but it also commonly found in Yogyakarta.  It’s made from minced beef or goat, the minced fatty meats are wrapped by thin fat or muscle membrane and wrapped around a bamboo skewer. Sate buntel is a seasoned fatty minced meat (usually beef, lamb or goat meat) wrapped in a lamb omentum or caul fat and wrapped surround a relatively large bamboo skewer. The appearance of the parcel is quite large and bumped in the middle, that’s why it’s called buntel. The most popular sate buntel was sold in Tambak Segaran, Solo. Sate buntel Tambak Segaran very special because the minced meat was very mild, tender and juicy because they use a 3-5 months old young  goat or lamb, beside they quite generous with spices and this made the dish drolling worthy.

Sate Buntel Kambing, Sinsfully Delicious Caul Fat Wrapped Skewerred Minced Lamb Kebab

Sambal Kecap Manis (Cabe Rawit & Kacang)

Sate Buntel with Sambal Kecap Manis

Resep sate buntel dengan sambal kecap manis. Sate buntel usually served with sambal kecap manis or hot and spicy Indonesian sweet soy sauce dip. After being grilled on charcoal, the skewer removed from sate buntel and then the meat is cut into bite-size chunks, then served with the sambal kecap manis. Several times i try sate buntel, the sweet soy sauce usually well seasoned too because, beside the obviously white peppercorn dust on it, i can taste the hint of nutmeg and cinnamon on it. Once i asked the seller he said that the kecap manis or sweet soy sauce was homemade with secret recipe. The sambal kecap manis usually consist of kecap manis, chopped chilli pepper, red shallots, onion and tomato, but if you like chopped nuts like cashew or peanut made it lovely even more.

Sate Buntel Kambing or Caul Fat Wrapped Lamb Kebab

Sate Buntel with Spicy Seasoning and Mild Gamey Lamb Flavour

Sate buntel or caul fat wrappped lamb kebab usually stuffed with lamb or goat meat from the belly and leg. Minced lamb or meat stuffing has to be fatty instead it will be tought and dry. The common ratio of fat and meat on burger, kebab, sheftalia or other processed meat is 1:5 or roughly about 20% of fat on it. Young sheep or goat (3-5 months old)  is preferred for it’s mild flavour and also tender texture. I also add the trimming excess meat and soft tissue from making my homemade lamb pancetta that i’ll publish later on.

Sate Buntel a.k.a Caul Fat Wrapped Lamb Kebab Served Skewerless with Sambal Kecap Manis

My sister insist to add some chicken leg meat on the  to reduce the gamey flavour, even i told him that the spring lamb itself already got a mild gamey aromas, but you know; it’s kinda chick’s thing. I actually like my lamb tast like lamb, i’m not being offensive but if you want your lamb taste like chicken, why you purchase the lamb in the first place. Heavy spice usually added to seasoned the sate buntel, it’s a typically indonesian cuisine. Beside finelly chopped red shallots and garlic which is staple in all indonesian dishes, a lot of toasted and ground corriander, pepper and nutmeg. Authentic sate buntel filling usually manually minced with chopping knive, but i just too lazy do it, so then i let my chopper do the magic for me.

Sheep or Lamb Caul Fat

Caul Fat Wrapped the Sate Buntel or Spicy Lamb Kebab Filling

Caul Fat is the essential ingredients of sate buntel, caul fat is a transparent and natural thin membrane which surrounds the stomach internal organs of some animals, such as cows, sheep, and pigs, also known as the greater omentum. Caul fat also known as lace fat, mesentery, crépine or fat netting.  You can ask the buther for it, he might give it for free actually. The sheep or lamb caul usually had huge chunks of fat in it and was very cumbersome, different from the semi-transparent, thin, lacy and beautiful pig or pork caul fat. Before using sheep or lamb caul fat, you can remove the big chunk of the fat by removing the thin membrane on one side and left the meaining thin membrane in the other side.

Sate Buntel, similiar with fegatelli (Italian), Sheftalia (Cypriot), Faggots (English), or Pâté or Crépinette (French) .

The size of this sate buntel is quite large, very similar to a middle eastern kebab. In greek, there’s a similiar caul fat sausages called called  fegatelli (Italian), Sheftalia (Cypriot), faggots (English), or pâté or crépinette (French) . Al of that It is a type of crépinette;  sausage that uses caul fat as a skin to hold the meat. The filling is made of ground pork or lamb shoulder or leg mixed with finely chopped onion and parsley, salt, and pepper and formed into small round balls. These balls are then placed on the spread caul fat and squares of caul fat are cut around them and wrapped, making little sausages which are put on two skewers. The caul fat sausage  then grilled, preferably on charcoal until golden brown, about 20 to 30 minutes.

Resep Sate Buntel Kambing Khas Solo

Resep Sate Buntel Kambing Khas Solo (Indonesian Skewered Minced Lamb Wrapped in Caul Fat :

Ingredients:

Minced Lamb Kebab Filling:

• 300 gr Minced Lamb Meat  (Daging kambing cincang)
• 200 gr Minced Chicken Meat  (Daging kambing cincang)*optional
• 10 gr Minced Lamb Fat for Filling (Lemak Kambing cincang)
• 1 Large Lamb Caul/ Omentum (Lemak perut kambing)
• 10 Metal or bamboo skewer  (Tusuk sate)
• 2 tbsp Sweet Soy Sauce (Kecap manis)
• 6 Cloves Garlic, Minced (Bawang putih cincang)
• 3 Red Shallots, Minced (bawang merah cincang)
• 1 Spiring Onion, Minced (Daun Bawang cincang)
• 1 Egg, Beaten ( Telur ayam, kocok)
• 1 tbsp Homemade Garam Masala Powder (Bubuk kari India)
• 1/2 tbsp corriander powder (Bubuk ketumbar)
• 2 tbsp Coconut Oil (Minyak kelapa)
• 1 Lemongrass Stalk, soft white part, minced (Sereh cincang)
• Salt and pepper to taste

Sambal Kecap Manis Recipe

• 12 (or more) Bird Eye Chili Pepper, thinly sliced (Cabe rawit, iris tipis)
• 6 Red Shallots, Thinly Sliced ( Bawang Merah, iris tipis)
• 2 Ripe Tomatoes, Diced (Tomat, potong dadu)
• 50 gr Toasted Peanut/ Cashew, Crushed (Kacang tanah/mede tumbuk)
• 6 tbsp Indonesian Sweet Soy Sauce (Kecap Manis )
• 1/2 tsp Homemade Garam Masala Powder (Bubuk Kari India)
• 1 tbsp Soy Sauce (Kecap Asin)
• 1 Kaffir Lime Juice (Jeruk Purut)
• 1 tbsp White Peppercorn Powder (Bubuk Lada putih)

Cara Membuat Sate Buntel Kambing Khas Solo:

• Put the minced lamb and chicken and all of the sate buntel filling ingredients in a large glass bowl
• Mix all ingredients with your hand until well combined, set aside

• Lay a piece of caul fat on a chopping board. Roll a large cylindrical piece of filling mixture into an oval shape and place on a corner of the caul. Place the skewer in the middle of the filling.

• Use your hand, roll and tuck in with your fingers, the caul fat should cover the filling mixture completely and form a firm parcel. Cut the remaining  caul fat

• Repeat the step above with the remaining sate buntel filling mixture.

• Wrapped the sate buntel parcell with alumunium foil*optional step

• Place the sate buntel over a shallow baking rack , pop it into the oven and let it roasted in 180 C for 30 minutes until throughly cooked, removed the alumunium foil wrapping

• Increase the temperature to 250 C and let it roasted for another 15 minutes until the caul fat charred and brown (nite the hell lot of the fat dripping)

• The sate bunte is ready to eat actually, but i gotta remove the extra fat on the caul b slicing the fat layer and then place it in over medium  hot grill. Lightly springkle some salt on the caul fat , for about 10–15 minutes, or until browned and just cooked through. Do not use flames, and do not turn too often or too early as the fat will stick.
• Served with Sambal Kecap Cabe Rawit

How to Make Sambal Kecap Manis:

• Mix all ingredients and stirr well, except the white peppercorn powder
• Just before serving dust the white peppercorn powder over the sambal kecap manis

You May Also Like (Click!)