I love to cook different types of food. I recently had my niece and Justin's (my son) girlfriend over and we cooked chinese food. I had taken a chinese cooking class some 25 years ago and found the recipes. I remember how good some of the recipes were and wanted to share the recipes with them. It seriously took us over 4 hours to prepare, cook and serve the food. We were exhausted by the end of the evening! Here is one of dishes we fixed, very yummy!!
ingredients:
1 lb. medium shelled shrimp
Mixture 1: 1/3 tsp. salt, 1/2 tbls. rice wine, 1 tbls. cornstarch, 1 tbls. water
oil for deep-frying
2 egg yolks
cornstarch for coating
Mixture 2: 1 Tbl. chopped garlic, 2 Tbl. chopped green onion, 1 tsp. chopped ginger root, 1 Tbls. hot chili paste
Mixture 3: 2 Tbls. catsup, 1/2 tsp. salt, 1 Tbls vinegar, 1 tbls. sugar, 1 tsp. cornstarch, 4 tbls. water, 1/2 tsp. sesame oil
1. Devein shrimp. Mix with a little salt, rinse lightly. Drain and pat dry with paper towels. Mix with mixture 1. Marinate al least 1 hour. Keep in refrigerator. Before cooking, add egg yolks and mix well, then coat with cornstarch.
2. Heat pan over high heat, add oil and heat to hot, deep-fry shrimp for about 2 minutes until golden colored. Remove and drain. Pour off all but 2 Tbls. oil from pan.
3. Reheat oil to hot, stir-fry mixture 2 ingredients for a few seconds until fragrant, pour in ready combined mixture #3 to the pan, bring to boil. Add shrimp, stir-fry until shrimp is coated with sauce.
Remove to platter and serve. Makes 6 servings..
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