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Tabâ ng talangkâ (Tagalog pronunciation: [tɐˈbaʔ nɐŋ tɐlɐŋˈkaʔ]), also known simply as aligí or aligé (Tagalog pronunciation:; Philippine Spanish aligué), is a Filipino seafood paste derived from the roe and reddish or orange tomalley of river swimming crabs or Asian shore crabs (talangkâ). [1] [2] [3]
Japanese kourayaki, or blended crab tomalley and roe baked in its shell. Tomalley is the hepatopancreas (the organ that fulfills the functions of both the liver and the pancreas) of a lobster, crab or other arthropods of a crustacean when used for culinary purposes.
Roe, (/ r oʊ / ⓘ ROH) or hard roe, is the fully ripe internal egg masses in the ovaries, or the released external egg masses, of fish and certain marine animals such as shrimp, scallop, sea urchins and squid. As a seafood, roe is used both as a cooked ingredient in many dishes, and as a raw ingredient for delicacies such as caviar.
The key ingredient is the Alavar sauce, a secret blend of coconut milk, taba ng talangka (crab roe paste), and various spices. [2] [3] [4] It is a regional specialty of Zamboanga City. The sauce was invented by Maria Teresa Camins Alavar and originally served in the Alavar Seafood Restaurant.
Premium versions may use real crab, as in the original recipe. The cucumber may have been used since the beginning, [4] or added later, [5] depending on the account. The inside-out roll may be sprinkled on the outside with sesame seeds, although tobiko (flying fish roe), [6] [7] or masago (capelin roe) may be used.
The soup is named for the "she-crab", or female crab, originally a gravid (roe-carrying) crab, as the orange crab roe comprise a chief ingredient in traditional she-crab soup. As with turtle soup, other ingredients may be added to the soup or substituted for others, although crab meat is found in all versions.
Crabs vary in size from the pea crab, a few millimeters wide, to the Japanese spider crab, with a leg span up to 4 m (13 ft). [6] Several other groups of crustaceans with similar appearances – such as king crabs and porcelain crabs – are not true crabs, but have evolved features similar to true crabs through a process known as carcinisation .
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