Steamed prawn with tofu glass noodles with plum sauce

Ingredients

Main Ingredients:

• 1 tube silken egg tau foo (or any type of tofu you like), cut into 8 equal pieces
• 8 medium size fresh prawns, peeled keeping the tails intact 10 g glass noodle, soaked and drained
• 1 stalk spring onion, diced

Ingredients for the sauce:

• 2 tablespoons plum sauce
• 2 tablespoons water
• 1 teaspoon chopped garlic
• 1/8 teaspoon ground clove
• 1/2 teaspoon sugar
• ½ teaspoon fried sesame
• ¼ teaspoon ground white pepper
• ¼ teaspoon grated ginger

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Preparation

• To prepare the plum sauce:
  Heat wok with vegetable oil and add chopped garlic and stir fry till fragrant. Add plum sauce, water, clove, sugar and pepper and let it simmer for about 2 mins. Add the grated ginger and simmer for another minute and turn off heat.
• To prepare main ingredients:
  First, In order to have the prawn in the shape of a ball, form them into balls, pinning with a toothpick, and dipped each prawn into small pot of hot water to let it half cook to "set" its shape. Cut the tube of tofu into 8 equal pieces and lay them on the serving plate. Next boiled the glass noddles for 5 mins and drain it well before and arranged some onto each tofu slice. On top of the glass noodles, nested the prawns. Spoon a little of the sauce on each prawn and put the rest of the sauce in a small bowl and set it in the center of the serving plate. Sprinkle some fried sesame seeds onto each prawan and the rest go into the sauce. When the water is boiling in the steamer, steam the dish for 5 to 8 minutes. Garnished with spring onion and serve the dish hot.