Crab And Prawn Dumplings With Coriander Pesto Food

CRAB DUMPLINGS - SLIMMED

Steps:

• To make the salad: In a small non-stick skillet, stir together the oil, jalapeno, and garlic. Stir-fry over medium heat until fragrant, about 5 minutes. Remove the skillet from the heat and add the sugar. Transfer the mixture to a medium bowl, and cool slightly. Toss the carrot, coriander, lime juice, fish sauce, and scallion together with the jalapeno mixture. Set aside.
• To make the dumplings: In a medium bowl, combine the crabmeat, water chestnuts, egg white, 1 tablespoon of vinegar, coriander, and salt.
• Lay 6 to 8 wontons out on a work surface. Trim into rounds with the biscuit cutter. Lightly brush the surface of each wrapper with vinegar. Place a level tablespoon of the crab filling in the center of each wrapper. Gather the wrapper around the filling, in a loosely-pleated open dumpling. The dumpling should be flat on the bottom with about a 1/2-inch of the wrapper unfilled at the top in order to hold the salad after steaming. Repeat until the filling is used up.
• Arrange the dumplings about 1/4-inch apart in 2 lettuce leaf-lined bamboo steamers. Fill a wok or pan with enough water to come up to the bottom of the steamer rack, and bring the water to a boil over high heat. Stack the steamers in the pan, cover, and steam the dumplings until the filling is set, about 10 minutes.
• Remove the steamer from the pan. Top each dumpling with 1/2 heaping teaspoon of the carrot salad. Serve immediately in the steamer pan.

CRAB AND PRAWN DUMPLINGS WITH CORIANDER PESTO

Steps:

• Method for Dumplings.
• Remove skin and bones from fish. Add to Egg white and process until minced.
• Place in bowl with crab and prawn meat.
• In a pan, heat sesame oil to medium and sauté curry paste, lemongrass, lime leaves, ginger and chilli to ignite flavours.
• Add to fish with fish sauce, noodles and coriander.
• Take spoonfuls of the mixture and drop into pan of hot oil (shallow fry), making sure there are pieces of noodle hanging roughly out- they will become crisp while the centre stays soft.
• Cook on all sides until brown.
• Drain on kitchen towel.
• Method for Pesto.
• Place all ingredients (except oils) into a blender or food processor.
• Give it a burst of power, and then drizzle in the oils until it becomes roughly emulsified.