If what you want in an abalone recipe is simplicity, check this one out for size. The name of this tasty abalone recipe is Abalone in Lemon Shells. It is at once a delicacy, and a tantalizing, refreshing appetizer, perfect for a hot summer afternoon. The ingredients are misleadingly simple. Cucumber, lemons, white radish, rice vinegar, sugar, and soy sauce. Even the most novice of chefs could prepare it, too. It may win the prize for abalone recipe requiring the least muss and fuss.
This particular abalone recipe does not specify how the abalone must be cooked, only that cooked abalone is required for this particular abalone recipe. How you cook it is up to you, or you may choose to buy abalone pre-cooked and canned. You simply shred the cucumber and radish, mix in sugar, rice vinegar, and soy sauce, cut off one end of the lemon and scoop out the pulp, leveling the other end so that it may stand up on it’s own by slicing a little bit off of the tip, then dice the abalone and combine with the cucumber and radish mixture, and fill the hollowed lemon shells when ready. This abalone recipe requires less than ten minutes in actual preparation!