New Youtube Channel! Prawn Claypot Glass Noodles (えび春雨鍋)

I’ve decided to try out making youtube videos in my free time for fun! The name of my channel is Warabitsu わらびつ. This is first video I made which you can watch here.

Prawn Claypot Glass Noodles

Ingredients:

250g of Glass noodles

300ml of Chicken Stock

5 large Prawns

25ml of Oyster Sauce

25ml of Sake

25ml of Dark Soy Sauce

10ml of Sesame Seed Oil

15ml of Fish Sauce

10g of Sugar

Optional: 3 Thin Slices of Pork Belly

1 Torch Ginger Flower (Bunga Kantan)

5 White Peppercorns

1 Sprig of Spring Onions

4 Sprigs of Coriander leaves with roots attached

5 Garlic Cloves

2 Small Knobs of Ginger

5g Coriander leaves

Keffir Lime (Limau Purut)

1. Peel the garlic cloves and knobs of ginger. Finely chop the spring onions.
2. Cut the roots of the Coriander sprigs and cut the torch ginger flower in half.
3. Soak the glass noodles in water for 30 minutes or hot water for 10 minutes.
4. Roughly pound the garlic cloves, ginger, coriander roots and white peppercorns in a pestle.
5. Heat a tablespoon of oil in the claypot and fry the spices in the pestle to extract the flavour.
6. Add in the chicken stock, sake, soy sauce, fish sauce, sesame seed oil, oyster sauce and sugar.
7. If using pork belly slices, add them now.
8. Drain the glass noodles and add in the glass noodles. try to submerge as much of the noodles as possible in the liquid.
9. Cover the lid and let simmer for 3 minutes.
10. Open the lid and add the coriander leaves, spring onions, prawns and Torch Ginger flower.
11. Replace the lid and allow to continue simmering for 5 minutes.
12. Shave the zest of the keffir lime into the claypot and cover.
13. Switch off the heat and allow to continue cooking from the residual heat for 5 minutes.