Dec 15 2008
Black Pepper Lala ( Clams ) Soup
It is quite hard to find lala ( clams ) either from the wet market of night market nowadays. Last Tuesday I saw it at the SJ night market and I quickly grab a plate of it at RM5. Lala is always my favourite no matter how you cook it. I think my Dad cooked the best lala dish at home. Yummy and I learnt to cook the lala from him in many ways.
Since it was a rainy day last Tuesday, I cooked Black Pepper Lala Soup added with a lot of chopped ginger and some Chinese wine for supper. Dearie Suki don’t eat lala and can you imagine, I had that big pot of lala by myself. Wow… yummy, yummy, yummy…
Ingredients :
1 kg lala, cleaned and soak in salt water then drained
2 tbsp chopped ginger
1/2 tbsp whole blackpepper corn, crushed a bit
1 litre water
Salt to taste
2 tbsp Chinese wine
Some Chinese parsley
Method :
1. Heat oil in pan and sautee chopped ginger till fragrant.
2. Add in water and black pepper corn. Let it simmer for 30 minutes.
3. Add in lala and season with salt to taste. Let it simmer for another 5 minutes or till lala is cook.
4. Pour in the Chinese wine and garnish with Chinese parsley. Serve hot.
