Recipes with
lobster and crab

Recipes
with broccoli

Hong Kong Lobster

• A LOBSTER OF ABOUT 1 KG
• 300 GRAM BROCCOLI
• 300 GRAM CARROTS
• 1 DECILITER FISH STOCK
• PIECE OF GINGERROOT, grated
• 1 CLOVE GARLIC
• 1 TBSP CORN STARCH

• 4 COD FILLETS
• 1 LEMON
• 100 GRAM MOZZARELLA
• 50 GRAM BACON

Boil and shell the lobster and cut it into pieces. Cut the broccoli and the carrots and blanch them. Stir fry the lobster during three minutes, add garlic and ginger and stir fry 2 minutes more. Mix the corn flour with the fish stock, add to the lobster and heat until the mixture thickens. Add the broccoli and the carrots. 

You can serve the lobster on the 1st of July. On 1 July 1997 the sovereignty of Hongkong was transferred from the UK to China. Click on culinary calendar for more links between cooking and history.

Put the fish fillets in an oven dish, press the juice out of the lemon and sprinkle it over the fish, put salt and fresh milled pepper on them. Cut the mozzarella in slices and put them on the fish, put the bacon on the mozzarella. Bake in the oven at 200 degrees during 25 minutes.

This recipe can be prepared with any kind of white fish fillet.

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