Dave Spearfisherman, nice catch and good job cooking up the fisherman's basket.

In response to your request for a good abalone recipe:

Ingredients:
defrosted abs, sliced thin, 2-3mm
Spring onions sliced into inch long bits
Ginger, julienned (slice like matchsticks)
Sambal chilli - get it from a chinese grocery - just the basic fresh chillies crushed with salt, vinegar
1-2 tbsp soy sauce
Peanut oil

Method:
Peanut oil into a HOT pan, chuck in the spring onions and ginger for maybe 30sec, then add the sliced abs, chilli (heaps unless you're a puss) and soy - toss it all around for 60sec max.

Shit is delicious. Eat it on rice for a decent feed or just let ppl pick at it for a snack.

a heap of ginger sliced fine
1 large diced garlic bulb
coriander diced
salt & pepper
sesame oil
virgin olive oil

same method as above..
try it its DELICIOUS

Thanks for the response bj, i never thought of putting it in rice or maybe noodles, but will most deffently try it that way in the future, thanks for the recipe ill give it crack when i get a few agian. Cheers mate Dave

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Slicing them fine and frying over a very high heat is one of the best ways. I do them like that a lot with a selection from a few flavourings, depending on whats in the garden or at hand. Lemon grass, chilli, garlic, ginger, galangal, and turmeric which are crushed in a mortar finely diced onion or shallotts, finely chopped lime leaves, lime/lemon juice and fish sauce or light soy for saltiness. a few drops of sesame oil goes well too.
Coriander gets shredded and sprinkled on top so it keeps its flavour. Toasted peanuts or sesame seeds go well on top and a few raw bean shoots on top gives it a nice crunch.

If I'm using them as an Entree I like to serve them in a lettuce cup on a large white plate or small chinese bowl

I use peanut or rice bran oil for this because it can take higher temps. Olive oil smokes to much at the temps you need.

Another way I like is an invention of mine loosely based on something I had in Footscray made from prawn.

Abalone balls with dipping sauce
Equal amounts of cleaned abalone and cooked rice
Garlic to taste
Salt and black pepper
Oil for deep frying

For the sauce
1 part fish sauce
1 part strong black tea
1 part sweet chilli sauce
1/2 part lime juice
If your brave a couple of finely sliced birds eyes to give it a bit more kick

Put the abs in a blender with garlic, salt and pepper until they are mush, now add the rice and just blend it a little bit so that some of the rice becomes a paste with the ab but their should be plenty of bits of rice through the mix.

Roll balls about the size of a walnut from the mix and deep fry until golden brown.

For the sauce just mix all the ingredients and away you go

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WARNING: CONTAINS CARROT