Adorable Steamed Prawn Paste Golden Carps with Tobiko

Tell me if you think these are the cutest lovey-dovey pair of golden carps you've ever seen! These Steamed Prawn Paste Golden Carps with Tobiko are also extremely juicy and scrumptious. Would you like to grab a piece?

Inspired by a dish I had eaten during my 10-course food-tasting experience some time ago at L'Atelier de Joël Robuchon, Resort World Sentosa, I decided to recreate this dish based on my memory. It was love at first bite the instant I sank my teeth into the prawn ball; it was bursting with flavours from bits of #tobiko, and I knew for that moment I was gonna try making this dish in no time.

Following these Cute Angry Birds Inari Age Bento that I had made recently, I bought extra tobiko for the purpose of my experiment.

Although these charming fishes turned out real tasty, there was a bit of a hiccup. The dish didn't turned out exactly what I had hoped, and I was kinda disappointed. The steamed egg was a disaster!

I wanted more colours to fill the plate, hence I thought that adding eggs would be a tasty idea. No doubt the dish did shine with vibrant colours, but you can see the outer edge of the steamed eggs turned out rather dry.

I had used microwave for steaming, carefully covering the plate with cling wrap like my usual steaming pattern. I do that when I'm feeling lazy, instead of using the conventional method. I steamed the seafood till half-cooked, then poured the beaten egg onto the plate and continued to microwave; perhaps the heat was not well distributed resulting in the unbalance texture of the eggs :<

Thankfully, these golden carps came out bouncy and succulent, with the tobiko tickling the taste buds with every bite. If I were to make these again, I don't think I would risk using eggs again. For the cooking method, I won't list the steps for the eggs since it didn't turn out well. Mmm..... but what should I replace with next time?

Recipe Featured at #PetitChef

(Makes 6 fishes)
Ingredients:
15 medium Prawns
1 small Fish fillet
12 Green Peas
1 - 2 tbsp Tobiko
Pinch of Salt and Pepper
½ Cornflour
½ tsp minced Ginger
1 tbsp Egg-white
Sesame oil for greasing

Method:

• Remove prawns shells and devein. Keep the shells of the tails.

• Rinse prawns and fish fillet. Chop them up or blend them into a paste. I prefer to chop them as I like to have some bite-size texture.

• Add seasonings, beaten egg-white and tobiko to seafood paste. Mix well.

• Use a Chinese soup spoon to form the shape of the fishes. Grease the spoon each time before you mould the shapes so that the fishes will slide out easily. I've chosen seasame oil to grease, adding fragrance to the dish. Add green peas to form the eyes.

• Slide the fishes gently onto a plate, and insert the prawn tails. Reshape if necessary.

• Cover with cling wrap and put to auto microwave steaming mode for fish, or steam till prawns turn pink. Enjoy your Adorable Steamed Prawn Paste Golden Carp with Tobiko, something to tempt the fussy kids too!

Here's another version for you to try: Juicy Tobiko Prawn Ball Soup with Iceberg Lettuce ( 飛魚子蝦球汤 )!

Here's another one of my failed attempts which I wrote about it 3 years ago at My Oven Hates Me!!

In the end, I managed to make these cute and yummy little piggies! These are my Pineapple Tarts with Parmesan Cheese! Lol!

Since then, my baking improved tremendously although I just bake once or twice a year for friends during Chinese New Year.

I even received quite a few compliments from friends and here's one of them. All thanks to my BFF Doris, who gave me her yummy recipe!

Morale of the story....... never give up! Practice makes perfect, even if it's just once a year! Hahaha! Do you have any failed cooking/baking experiments? How did you rescue your dish?