Seafood Hot Pot with Green Curry

| Executive Chef Brian Ray
Seafood Hot Pot with Green Curry

Ingredients

  • 1 oz fish sauce
  • 1 cup Chinese chives, blanched
  • 4 oz red snapper, filet
  • 1 quart chicken stock
  • 1 cup coconut milk
  • 1 tbsp galangal, peeled and chopped
  • 2 tbsp lemongrass, chopped
  • 1 kaffir lime leaf
  • 1/2 .5 inch piece ginger, peeled
  • 2 tbsp crab paste
  • 1/4 cup vegetable oil
  • 6 lobster bodies, cleaned
  • 1 rock lobster tail, cut into pieces
  • 4 manila clams
  • 2 shrimp, peeled and deveined
  • 2 oz scallop, large sliced

Heat the vegetable oil in a large stock pot over medium heat.  Add the lobster bodies and brown on all sides.  Add the crab paste, ginger, galangal, and lemongrass.  Continue to cook.  Once the vegetables start to soften, add the kefir lime leaf.  Add the chicken stock and coconut milk, and bring to a simmer.  Gently simmer for 45 minutes.  Strain the broth and chill completely.  Add the chilled broth to a blender.  Add the Chinese chives and the fish sauce.  Blend until smooth.

    Ingredients

    • 3 oz cold water
    • 1 oz hot water
    • 1 tbsp sugar
    • 1/4 cup wheat starch
    • 1 cup sweet rice flour

    Add the wheat starch to a small bowl.  Add the hot water and stir until incorporated.  The paste should become slightly translucent.  Add the remaining ingredients and knead into a dough.

      Ingredients

      • 1 pinch of salt
      • 1 tsp vegetable oil
      • 1/2 tsp finger chile pepper
      • 1 tbsp leek, chopped
      • 1 tbsp water chestnuts, chopped
      • 2 oz lobster meat
      • 1 egg white
      • 6 shrimp, peeled and deveined

      Place the shrimp and egg white into a food processor and blend until smooth.  Remove the shrimp paste and place it in a large bowl.  Add all of the other ingredients and mix until incorporated.

      To Form The Mochi
      Take a half ounce of the mochi dough and roll it into a ball.  Flatten the ball into a 1 ½ inch disk.  Spoon a teaspoon of the filling into the middle of the disc.  Pull all of the edges of the disc to the top of the dumpling.  Pinch together to seal the dumpling.

      For the Hot Pot
      Place all of the seafood and the mochi balls into a clay hot pot.  Add 2 cups of the curry to the hot pot.  Cover the pot and simmer for 10 minutes.