Abalone with a liver cream sauce served with pasta or risotto

An easy-to-make filling pasta or risotto meal utilising Two Oceans abalone served in a liver cream sauce.

Serves 1

Cooking tip: Save any abalone juice and add to the garlic butter.

 

Ingredients

1 abalone liver and abalone juice from a whole frozen abalone in shell or live abalone
1 clove garlic
3 tbsp butter
250ml cream
Pasta or Arborio rice stock for cooking risotto

Methods

  1. Gently remove abalone stomach away from shell. Place the stomach on a cutting board, wipe dry with a paper towel. The largest end of the stomach shall have a green coloured section (female abalone) or a white section (male abalone), this is the abalone gonads or liver. Gently trim this section away from the stomach with a sharp knife. Place the liver on paper towel and gently push out excess fluid (dark colour). Save any abalone juice/blood.
  2. Thinly chop garlic.
  3. Add 1 tbsp butter into fry pan on medium heat. Add chopped garlic.
  4. Add abalone stomach and any juice/blood to the garlic butter and mix the stomach into the butter.
  5. Slowly add cream while mixing and breaking down the liver into the sauce. Once cream begins to bubble add 2 tbsp of butter and mix through the sauce. Remove from heat and push sauce through fine strainer.
  6. Add sauce to your favourite cooked pasta or risotto.

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