Buah Paya Masak Titek (Peppery Papaya Soup)
Senin, 09 November 2020
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Buah paya masak titek is a Nyonya soup. It has potent umami flavours from prawns, papayas, salted fish in addition to dried prawns. It also has a spicy kicking from white peppercorns.
My soup is inspired past times "The Best of Singapore Cooking" in addition to "Cooking for the President".
The recipe from "The Best of Singapore Cooking" is also salty. It uses also much salted fish bones in addition to dried prawns, inwards add-on to tabular array salt in addition to a chicken stock cube.
The recipe from "Cooking for the President" isn't ideal either. It's to a greater extent than similar a stew than soup since there's to a greater extent than papaya than water. There aren't whatever fresh prawns, in addition to it's less spicy than "The Best Of". But I similar the book's persuasion of dry-frying, thus simmering the dried prawns.
I get got the best parts of the 2 recipes to brand my peppery papaya soup.
I purpose less papaya than "Cooking For", in addition to less salted fish bones than "The Best Of".
I omit the tabular array salt in addition to stock cube but there're fresh prawns, equally good equally dried ones dry-fried till rattling fragrant.
Lastly, I larn along alongside the amount of white peppercorn in addition to chilli inwards "The Best Of".
My soup contrasts the fruity sweetness of papaya alongside a salty in addition to mildly spicy stock. I similar it rattling much. I promise yous produce too.
This Nyonya soup is fat-free even thus total of flavour. May move a lite repast if yous like.
INGREDIENTS
INSTRUCTIONS
INGREDIENTS
- 350 g prawns – peel, leaving tails on; devein; rinse; reserve shells in addition to heads for making stock
- 80 g salted threadfin bones, rinse twice
- 900 ml water
- 40 g dried prawns (¼ cup) – rinse in addition to dry-fry till fragrant
- 12 g candlenuts (3 pieces)
- 1 crimson chilli
- 1 tbsp white peppercorns
- 80 g shallots, peel, launder in addition to chop roughly
- 800 g half-ripe papaya (skin should move light-green alongside a hint of yellow) – peel, rinse, quarter lengthwise, discard seeds, reduce inner surface, in addition to cutting crosswise 1½ cm thick
- sugar to taste, almost ½ tsp
INSTRUCTIONS
- Bring prawn shells in addition to heads, salted fish bones in addition to H2O to a boil. Simmer gently, covered, for five minutes.
- Make spice glue whilst stock is simmering. Blend or pound dried prawns, candlenuts, chillies, peppercorns in addition to shallots finely.
- Remove in addition to discard prawn shells in addition to heads from stock alongside a slotted spoon. Add terra firma paste. Continue gentle simmering for 10 minutes. Add papaya in addition to convey dorsum to a boil. Simmer till almost tender, 3-4 minutes depending on how ripe papaya is. Do non overcook or papaya would plough mushy.
- Turn off heat. Let soup sit down 10 minutes, covered, to railroad train flavours.
- Reheat soup till gently simmering. Taste in addition to flavour alongside saccharide to taste, almost ½ tsp. Add prawns in addition to estrus till merely pinkish in addition to opaque. Do non overcook.
- Serve soup hot, accompanied past times sambal belachan in addition to calamansi lime juice equally a dip.