Typhoon shelter salmon recipe
This Hong Kong dish is a garlic lovers' dream. Usually served with crab or prawns, it works fantastically with salmon, too. Use Asian celery if you can find it. Otherwise, this is a great way to make use of the leaves of the common Western celery. You can use a food processor to finely chop the garlic if you want to save some time.
Ingredients
½ cup vegetable oil
2 heads garlic, cloves peeled and finely chopped
4 salmon cutlets
¼ cup cornflour
sea salt, to season
white pepper, to season
8 spring onions, cut in half
1 tbsp black bean sauce
4 bird's eye chillies, finely chopped
1 cup celery leaves
Method
1. Heat the vegetable oil in a wok or saucepan over low-medium heat and add the garlic. Cook the garlic for about 3-4 minutes, stirring constantly, until it is lightly golden brown and then remove the garlic from the oil with a wire mesh sieve. Reserve both the fried garlic and the garlic oil.
2. Heat a large frying pan over medium-high heat. Dredge the salmon cutlets in the cornflour and add three tablespoons of the garlic oil to the pan. Season the salmon with salt and white pepper and fry for about three minutes on each side until just cooked through, then remove to a serving plate.
3. Heat a tablespoon of the garlic oil in the wok (reserve any leftover garlic oil for another purpose) and add the spring onions and black bean sauce. Toss for about a minute, until the spring onions start to soften, then add the chillies and celery leaves and toss for a further minute. Add the reserved fried garlic and turn off the heat, breaking up any clumps of garlic. Pour the mixture over the salmon cutlets and serve immediately.
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Adam Liaw is a cookbook author and food writer, co-host of Good Food Kitchen and former MasterChef winner.
