Moreton Bay bugs, banana prawns, and Wagyu porterhouse steak

Moreton Bay bugs, banana prawns, and Wagyu porterhouse steak for tea on Wednesday evening.

Wagyu porterhouse steak, Moreton Bay bugs, and Banana prawns ready for preparation

Moreton Bay bugs, banana prawns, and Wagyu porterhouse steak

Dedicated to Ms 18

Who helped me with some video of the sneaking being cooked

Bugs are a form of lobster. In some countries, these crustaceans are known as slipper lobsters. While a full mud crab from the Top End of Australia would be my favourite form of crustacean, the Moreton Bay bug is about my next favourite. When eaten fresh, the flesh is exquisite.

Banana prawns were not my first choice. I wanted Endeavour prawns but Morgans Seafood at Scarborough.

I bought the Wagyu Porterhouse steak from Chermside Butcher and Grill at Westfield Chermside.

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I bought all the ingredients from Coles. Yummy Lummy is not sponsored by anyone.

Recipe

Moreton Bay bugs, banana prawns, and Wagyu porterhouse steak
Prep Time
30 mins
Cook Time
10 mins
Faffing
15 mins
Total Time
55 mins
 
Moreton Bay bugs, banana prawns, and Wagyu porterhouse steak. A reef and beef meal for my parents and Ms18.
Course: Main Course
Cuisine: Australian
Keyword: Banana prawns, Caesar salad, Kalettes, Moreton Bay bugs, Wagyu porterhouse
Servings: 4 Sapiens
Calories: 500 kcal
Author: Gary
Ingredients
  • 3 Moreton Bay bugs
  • 500  g Banana prawns cooked
  • 350  g Wagyu porterhouse steak
  • bag Kalettes
  • bag Cos lettuce
  • handful Parmesan cheese shaved
  • handful bacon pieces Donald Trump sized hands
  • slices bread white sandwich loaf
  • cup Caesar salad dressing
  • Iodised salt
  • Black peppercorns
  • 50  g Butter
Instructions
Cooking meat, arranging seafood and sorting out the vegetables
  1. Remove the tail meat from the Moreton Bay bags. Slice some for adding to the salad, and halve sagittally two tails for one half of a tail per person.

  2. Peel the prawns. Slice half of them and keep the remainder whole.

  3. Unwrap the steak and place it on a tray to aerate in the refrigerator for about four hours to dry out the surface of the steak.

    banana prawns
  4. Season the steak with iodised salt and freshly cracked black pepper.

  5. Heat up a frypan until it is smoking hot.

  6. Gently place the steak in the frypan and turn it over and over every 15 seconds until it is cooked medium rare.

  7. Make sure to sear the edges of the steak.

  8. Turn the heat off and add the butter to the frypan so it rapidly foams.

  9. Baste the steak with the melting butter.

  10. Put the steak onto a plate and allow it to rest for 10 minutes.

  11. After the steak has rested, slice the steak thinly with a sharp knife.

  12. In a frypan add a neutral high vapour oil life rice bran oil and heat it up.

  13. Add in the bag of kalettes and season with iodised salt and freshly cracked black pepper.

  14. Put a lid on the frypan and cook until the kalettes begin to brown on the surface in contact with the frypan.

  15. Try one and the kalette should be soft enough to chew on while retaining a crispy texture.

  16. Build the salad with cos lettuce, shaved parmesan cheese, and bacon pieces.

Plating up
  1. On a plate lay down some salad on one side with the cooked kalettes on the other side.
  2. Add some of the sliced Moreton Bay bug meat and prawn meat on the salad and top with Caesar salad dressing.
  3. Add the slices of the Wagyu porterhouse steak in whatever arrangement you like over the kalettes. Add half a Moreton Bay bug tail and a few prawns.
  4. Spoon over the remaining burnt butter.

    Surf and turf. Moreton Bay bugs, Banana prawns, and Wagyu porterhouse steak
Blogging bit
  1. Shoot a photograph and a short video because Google now wants video on recipe cards.
  2. Eat the meal.
  3. Wash the dishes (hint, wash as you cook, it makes life easier).
  4. Write the recipe.
  5. Write the blog post.
  6. Hit publish and hope this blog post gets shared on Twitter, Facebook, and Pinterest.

Recipe Video

Recipe Notes

Disclaimer

I have no culinary training nor qualifications. This post is not intended to convey any health or medical advice. If you have any health concerns about anything you read, please contact your registered medical practitioner. The quantities are indicative. Feel free to vary the quantities to suit your taste. I deliberately do not calculate energy for dishes. I deliberately default to 500 Calories or 500,000 calories because I do not make these calculations.

Photographs

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Questions and answers

What do you mean when you say you had Moreton Bay bugs, banana prawns, and Wagyu porterhouse steak for tea?

It’s so good to be home and amongst people who speak my language. Tea is a synonym for the evening meal. In some countries and parts of Australia this is referred to as dinner, yet dinner can also be the midday meal in some countries.

I was at a meeting in Sydney a couple of weeks ago and I caught up with a friend who I hadn’t seen in about twenty years. We did our pathology training together. He was on his mobile telephone with his wife and he said he’d be home in time for tea. It was the first time in ages I’d heard someone say that. In Darwin and Canberra, the people I work with and socialise with don’t speak the same version of Australian English that I do.

You’ve really been going hard on the surf and turf or reef and beef?

It hasn’t been deliberate. It was really just opportunity. I hadn’t planned on buying the steak, but Mum, Dad, and Ms 18 have never tried it so I thought I’d buy a piece and we could share it between the four of us.

Pan-frying steak! Where’s the MEATER thermometer and the sous vide water bath?

I’m in Brisbane and I don’t have any of my usual cooking accoutrements with me.

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Final thoughts

  • Have you ever eaten kalettes? I’m grateful to scientist and actor Rachael Rigda for putting me onto them.
  • What do you call your evening meal?
  • Would you cook wagyu steak for family members who have never tried it?
  • Do you cook for your family when you’re visiting them?

This week’s diary post

Can be found on my other blog. There’s some food photographs and descriptions of what I ate there too.

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6 Responses

  1. Another good surf and turf meal, Gaz. I really like combining red meat and seafood. Nothing wrong with that especially when the flavours gel together nicely.

    I call my evening meal dinner. Any meal after dinner is supper. Or a dessert. A massive dessert. Tea to me is a short break or meal in the middle of the day after lunch. At some places I’ve worked, they referred to this break as ‘afternoon tea’.

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