How to make fried clams with Thai sweet and sour sauce, spicy and irresistible

Stir-fried clams with Thai-style sweet and sour sauce brings a delicious, exotic flavor. Easy-to-make dishes with easy-to-find ingredients will bring you a quick, delicious and nutritious meal.

Prepare
60 Minutes Processing
30 Minutes For
2 people

Ingredients for Thai style stir-fried clams with sweet and sour sauce

Delicious, fresh clams

• 500g clams
• 3 lemongrass plants
• 5 chili
• Laksa leaves
• Garlic
• Seasoning: Salt , sugar, soy sauce, vinegar, soy sauce, chili sauce, shrimp brick color, ground pepper

Good tip

How to choose fresh, delicious clams :

Fresh, delicious and alive clams are hard-shelled clams with a firm mouth and heavy hand.

Dead clams often have their mouths open, lightly handled and often have an unpleasant odor. However, if you touch open-mouthed clams and they immediately close their mouths, it’s fresh, delicious clams.

How to choose shrimp brick color :

Shrimp brick color is a food coloring that helps to create attractive colors for food. Shrimp brick color is made from natural ingredients such as yellow from turmeric, caramel color from sugar,…

The color of shrimp bricks is priced from 15,000 VND – 20,000 VND / 50g . You can buy shrimp tile colors on e-commerce platforms.

Brick color shrimp

How to make Thai style stir-fried clams with sweet and sour sauce

Step 1Process materials

You soak the clams with water and 2 cut chillies for 2 hours to remove the sand. After 2 hours, you wash it, take it out and let it dry.

Soak clams with chili to remove sand

Tips for preparing clams

In addition to the preliminary processing of clams as above, you can soak the clams with a mixture of salt water and diluted vinegar to remove dirt and slime.

You can also shake the clams by soaking the clams in water for about 1 hour. Then you put the clams in the box, add a little water, close the lid and shake it vigorously, for a long time to release the sand and dirt.

Finely chop 1 garlic, slice 3 chili peppers and cut into chunks, smash lemongrass. Lettuce, remove the wilted, bruised, damaged part of vegetables and wash and dry.

Step 2Make sweet and sour sauce

You mix 1 teaspoon of shrimp brick color with a little water. Put 200g of sugar, 30g of salt, ½ teaspoon of ground pepper , 100ml of soy sauce, 100ml of vinegar, 150g of soya sauce, 50g of chili sauce, diluted shrimp brick color mixture into a pot and stir well.

When the ingredients are mixed together, put the pot on the stove and cook over medium heat until the sauce thickens.

Mixture of spices to make sweet and sour sauce

Note : During the cooking process, remember to stir well so that the ingredients do not burn at the bottom of the pot.

The sauce mixture when it is boiled and gradually thickens

Then you leave 1 cup for clam processing, the rest, you can put in a jar, put in the refrigerator to store and use for other dishes.

Step 3Stir fried clams with Thai sweet and sour sauce

You put the oil pan on the stove, when the oil is hot, add a little minced garlic and sauté it until fragrant. Then add the clams and stir fry well.

Next, you add 1 cup of sweet and sour sauce, crushed lemongrass, ½ cup of water, chopped chili and ⅓ teaspoon of salt , continue to stir-fry with high heat.

Stir fried clams with sweet and sour sauce

When the clams have just opened their mouth, you add about 1 fistful of cilantro and continue to stir-fry until the clams open completely, then the clams are cooked, turn off the heat and put the clams on a plate to enjoy.

Finished product

Stir-fried clams with Thai sweet and sour sauce

Clam meat is fragrant with lemongrass and laksa leaves, delicious and absorbent with sweet and sour sauce, spicy chili flavor . Clam meat served with laksa leaves creates a unique flavor . With Thai-style stir-fried clams with sweet and sour sauce, you can enjoy it with a few cups of cold beer.

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