Preparation
10 minutes
Processing
15 minutes
Difficulty
Easy
Oyster salad is a salad that sounds a bit strange, doesn’t it? But it is extremely delicious and nutritious, I assure you that anyone who tries it once will want to try it again. Let’s join TasteVN in the kitchen to make this oyster salad!
Ingredients for Oyster Salad For 4 people
Live oysters 500 gr Large shallots 10 bulbs Lemongrass 7 stalks Kaffir lime leaves 4 leaves Chili 2 fruits Calamondin 2 fruits Chili powder 1 teaspoon Fish sauce 3 tablespoons Sugar/MSG a little
How to Choose Fresh Oysters
- For live oysters: Choose oysters with a conical shell, tightly closed, and the meat should be firmly attached, filling the shell and containing a lot of seawater because these oysters will have much tastier and sweeter meat inside.
- For shucked oysters: Choose oysters that still have fresh meat, not slimy or discolored. Additionally, when buying shucked and pre-packaged oysters, you need to carefully check the origin, expiration date, and the packaging and labeling to ensure they are intact.
- Avoid choosing oysters that are slimy, have many veins in the meat, and have an unusual foul smell.
How to prepare Oyster Salad
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Prepare the ingredients
The oysters should be shucked after purchase, then you just need to remove the slime on the oyster’s head and gently rub them with salt. After that, rinse them clean and let them drain.
Shallots should be peeled and sliced thinly. Lemongrass should have the wilted leaves removed, then rinse under water, drain, and slice thinly.
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Mixing the salad
Add shallots, lemongrass, and oysters into the bowl and mix well. Then, use scissors to chop the lime leaves and red chili into small pieces and add them to the bowl.
Next, squeeze the juice of 2 calamondins into the bowl and season with a mixture of 3 tablespoons of sugar, 1 teaspoon of monosodium glutamate, 1 teaspoon of chili powder, and 3 tablespoons of fish sauce, then mix thoroughly.
Finally, transfer to a plate and you can enjoy it right away.
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Final product
Thus, the oyster salad is complete. The oyster meat is quite firm and chewy, delicious, and sweet. When you eat it, you will experience the salty, sweet, and sour taste with a slight spiciness, guaranteed to be addictive. Give it a try!
What is oyster mushroom?
- Oyster mushroom, also known as coral snail, is a specialty of Phu Quy, with an unattractive appearance like dead coral shells, its skin rough and hard like cement.
- Oyster mushrooms cannot be farmed, they can only be found in nature, so their price varies by season.
- To catch this type of oyster, fishermen must dive to depths of 15m-20m, using sharp knives to pry rocks, bringing the rocks ashore before starting to extract each one.
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So you already have a plate of oyster salad delicious and unique, right? Hope that the recipe shared above will help you easily make this dish. Wish you success!
