Tasty Clam Soup | Lala Soup with Ginger & Chinese Wine

Learn how to cook clam soup that is rich and sweet, with a hint of spice! This clam recipe only takes 15 minutes from start to finish, and is best eaten on a cold, rainy day. Ingredients & Utensils ↓ It all starts with the clams. Today, I am using Lala (a type of soft shell clams) for my seafood soup. They are elongated with a crisscross pattern on their shells. They must first be washed individually to remove the empty shells from the batch. Usually, the uncooked ones with the empty shells contain mud. Be sure to check all the Lala - what cannot be opened, are alive and should be cooked. The Lala has to be cleaned as thoroughly as possible, as the cleaner the Lala, the clearer the soup will be. The herbs used have a strong aromatic fragrance and taste to balance the fishy taste of the clams, like ginger and basil. The cooking wine lends a savoury, umami flavour to the soup while warming up the body on a cold day. Before starting to cook the Lala, be sure to have all the ingredients prepared as it only takes 4 minutes to cook the Lala soup. The seasonings are added into the water to be boiled together, before adding the Lala. Cooking the Lala will only take about a minute and a half, or until all the Lala shells have opened. The rest of the strong herbs are added to the soup to infuse the flavours, before the wine is added. The end result is a rich, tasty and appetizing seafood soup, infused with ginger and cooking wine that warms the soul. It's best savoured with fluffy white rice. Enjoy! Ingredients: 500g Lala Clams: https://c.lazada.com.my/t/c.Zi2bk9?ur... 1 cup Basil Leaves: https://c.lazada.com.my/t/c.Zi2t4z?ur... 2 inches knob Ginger: https://c.lazada.com.my/t/c.Zid2uI?ur... 1.5 tbsp Oyster Sauce: https://c.lazada.com.my/t/c.Zi3TrL?ur... 3 cloves Garlic: https://c.lazada.com.my/t/c.Zi35bT?ur... 1 Red Chilli: https://c.lazada.com.my/t/c.ZidKJl?ur... 1/4 tsp Sesame Seed Oil: https://c.lazada.com.my/t/c.Zid9sm?ur... 1/2 tbsp Cooking Wine: https://c.lazada.com.my/t/c.ZidiSC?ur... 500ml Water 1/4 tsp Salt Utensils: Pyrex: https://c.lazada.com.my/t/c.Zidz9D?ur... Wok: https://c.lazada.com.my/t/c.ZidE1G?ur... Mini Glass Bowl: https://c.lazada.com.my/t/c.ZidCRv?ur... Stock pot: https://c.lazada.com.my/t/c.ZiWb1O?ur... Serve with: White Rice: https://c.lazada.com.my/t/c.ZifiX3?ur... Subscribe at: https://www.youtube.com/c/HomeCooking... #HomeCookingWithSomjit