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Eat your fear:

Title: Jellyfish Salad
Yield: 1 Serving

Ingredients

125 g (4 oz) Salted jellyfish
1 lg Cucumber
Salt
1/2 c Small peeled cooked prawns
125 g (4 oz) Roast chicken,
-preferably b
2 tb Vegetable or peanut oil
1 Spring onion, finely chop'd
1 tb Fish sauce (nuoc mam)
Fresh coriander leaves,
-chopped
Black pepper
2 tb Pickled carrot
2 tb Roasted peanuts, chopped

Instructions

Soak the jellyfish in hot water for 2 hours, changing the water twice. Drain and cut into thin strips. Peel the cucumber, cut in halves lengthwise and slice thinly. Place in a dish with 1 teaspoons
salt and leave for 10 mins. Rinse and drain.

Shred the chicken. Saute the chicken and prawns briefly in the oil adding the chopped onion and fish sauce. Add the jellyfish and toss in the pan. Remove and leave to cool, then mix with the remaining
ingredients and pile onto a small plate.

RG, You're a sick man to post that and you're trying to get us sick,too!

RickG,
I am sure glad that we didn't hire you as a cook for the SOTB! Yuk!

Hmmm - tastes like chicken?

Rick – where the heck did you come up with that? That sounds like something that guy on TV who goes around the world eating weird stuff would eat. I forget the name of the show, but I think he needs to swing by your house for a double helping of jellyfish.

You know, I bet that would actually taste really good if you subbed something for the jellyfish. Maybe rice noodles or something.

I was looking through one of my Chinese cookbooks the other day and not only did it have lots of jellyfish recipes, it had recipes for preparing sea cucumber! Sliced up, it kind of looked like a mushroom. It's amazing what people can create in the kitchen.

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Jellyfish salad is a traditional Koren dish. Its crunchy, believe it or not, and quite tasty.

Cheers, RickG

RickG~
I have heard of the different jellyfish dishes, but YUK...I think I would have to pass on this one! (or maybe with a Painkiller chaser it wouldn't be too bad)

I just saw this thread, and I just wanted to thank y'all for talking about jellyfish while I was already on my trip. I was paranoid I was going to get stung by one, and if I'd read this I may have never gone in the water.

See, one more reason not to check in while you're actually on STJ.

We saw lots of jellies on this past trip, mostly moon jellies and the little thimble shaped guys. But, we did find one big weird guy at Tektite that we could not identify. I'm still culling my pictures, but I got a good shot of it that I'll post here later tonight and you all can help me figure out what it was!