"Kam Lu Wantan"
different types of meat, veggies, and wontons in a bittersweet tamarind sauce
Servings 4 people
Ingredients
- Vegetable Oil
- 1 tbps Sesame Oil
- 1/2 Chicken breast sliced
- 250 gr Shrimp about 1/2 lb
- 250 gr Pork about 1/2 lb
- Half Pineapple in chunks
- 2 cups of Snowpeas
- 2 Red bell peppers chopped
- 3 cups of Spring onions chopped
- 16 Wontons fried
Tamarind Sweet Sauce:
- 1 Ají Amarillo any mild chili
- 1 tbsp of minced girger
- 3 Garlic cloves minced
- 250 gr Tamarind paste
- 1/4 cup of Ketchup
- 1/4 cup of Brown Sugar
- 1 tsps of Cornstarch
Instructions
Tamarind Sauce
- In a pot add tamarind, 2 cups of water, garlic, sugar, ginger, ají Amarillo, bring to a boil until the tamarind start to fall apart and the sugar is dissolved, let the tamarind get soft, strain the liquid, and set it aside.
- Transfer the liquid to a clean pot then add ketchup, a pinch of salt, and cornstarch (dissolved in a tablespoon of water), stir, bring to a boil, and then save it for later.
Ka lum
- In a hot pan stir fry the meats, until fully cooked then reserve.
- In the same pan, stir fry your veggies (Onions, Bell pepper, Snow peas), add a teaspoon of salt then reserve.
- add the meat back, tamarind sauce, veggies, add pineapple, add salt, pepper (cornstarch if necessary).
- Fry your wontons and then reserve.
Plating
- On a big plate put fried wontons at the base then pour the tamarind sauce with veggies and meats on top, sprinkle some chopped spring onions (green part) & some sesame seeds on top, it can be also be served with fried rice on the side.
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