Filipino Mixed Seafood with Oyster Sauce Recipe

Ingredients

• 1 kilo of seafood or any one or a combination of crabs, prawns, squid, clams, mussels and any seafood
• 1 large onion, diced
• 1 thumb sized ginger, sliced into strips
• 1/2 teaspoon of sugar or monosodium glutamate
• 3 table spoons of cooking oil or olive oil
• 1/3 cup water
• spring onions, cut 1 inch long
• 1/3 cup of oyster sauce
• 2 pieces green finger pepper (sili pag sigang) chopped
• Salt and pepper to taste

METHOD

1. Estimated cooking time: 30 minutes
2. Slice crabs into 2 or 4 if very big
3. Steam crabs and prawns for 5 minutes
4. Wash squid and cut into 1 inch long sections
5. On a big wok, stir fry garlic until golden brown, then add ginger and onions, stir fry for a minute more
6. Add water and bring to a boil
7. Add squid, clams, mussels and other uncooked seafood.
8. Simmer for 5 minutes
9. Add crabs and shrimp
10. Add the oyster sauce
11. Salt and pepper to taste
12. Sprinkle the sugar or monosodium glutamate (vetsin)
13. Add the long green chili
14. Mix well and bring to a boil
15. Boil for 3 minutes
16. Serve hot with steamed rice
17. Add the long green chili earlier if you prefer your mixed seafood with oyster sauce hot.
18. The above recipe can be used for just one type of seafood like crabs only or a combination of many including fish.