Hong Kong XO Sauce Recipe
Recipe by Ethan Wong
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Notes
Cooking Tips
- Large dried scallop is a lot pricier and does not significantly enhance the flavors, so it is not necessary to use large dried scallop.
- The amount of chili used can be adjusted to personal preferences.
- Be extra careful with the heat, they tend to burn very easily.
Ingredients
- 150 g Dried Scallop
- 100 g Dried Shrimp
- 80 g Chinese JinHua Ham (optional)
- 150 g Shallot
- 1 bulb Garlic
- 5 pcs Chili (add or reduce depending on personal preferences)
- 1 handful Dried Chili (add or reduce depending on personal preferences)
- 400 g Cooking oil
- 2 tbsp Abalone Sauce
- 1 tbsp Oyster Sauce
- 1 tbsp Soy Sauce
- 2 tbsp Sugar
Instructions
Preparation
- For dried scallop and dried shrimp, steam them for 30 minutes.
- Then use a blender and blend the steamed dried shrimp into small pieces.
- As for the steamed dried scallop, use a knife or spoon to press and strip it apart into fine strips.
- For the JinHua Ham, cut into small cubes and set aside.
- For shallot and garlic, peel off the skin.
- For chili, cut off the stalk and remove the seed.
- For dried chili, chop into small pieces and with a strainer, shake off the seeds.
- With a blender, finely blend together shallot, garlic, chili, dried chili, and oil. Set aside.
- Prepare the other ingredients accordingly.
Cooking
- Use a cooking pot or wok, add the blended ingredients in.
- Fry with medium-low heat and continue stirring to prevent the bottom from burning.
- Fry until they begin to turn yellow, switch off the heat.
- With a strainer, separate the oil from the ingredients and set aside.
- Then add blended dried shrimp into oil and fry at medium-low heat.
- Fry until it begins to brown. Switch off the heat and strain off the dried shrimp from oil and set aside.
- Add cubes JinHua Ham into oil and fry until browning. Set aside.
- Add dried scallop strips and fry at medium-low heat.
- Fry until they begin browning and strain off the dried scallop from oil and set aside.
- Without turning on the heat, add sugar into oil and dissolve sugar.
- Then add soy sauce, abalone sauce, and oyster sauce.
- Switch on heat to lowest and thoroughly stir them up.
- Add all the fried ingredients back in.
- Thoroughly stir them together.
- Remove from heat and transfer into a container.
- Let it cool with ice bath.
Nutrition
Serving : 500gCalories : 4527kcalCarbohydrates : 60gProtein : 125gFat : 427gSaturated Fat : 30gCholesterol : 1140mgSodium : 6268mgPotassium : 850mgFiber : 5gSugar : 43gVitamin A : 265IUVitamin C : 19mgCalcium : 456mgIron : 9mg