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Five-Color Shredded Shrimp

An innovative Cantonese dish featuring shrimp paste as the main ingredient, stir-fried with colorful shredded vegetables for a crisp, tender, and silky texture.

2h 30m
Easy
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Five-Color Shredded Shrimp

Ingredients

shrimp meat (minced with the back of a knife) 500 g
refined salt 5 g
MSG 6 g
baking soda 1.5 g
shredded winter bamboo shoots to taste
shredded carrot to taste
shredded green and red bell peppers to taste
shredded onion to taste
chive segments to taste
Shaoxing wine (mixed into the bowl sauce) to taste
finishing oil 10 g

Instructions

1

Make the shrimp paste

Mince 500 g of shrimp meat with the back of a knife, then add 5 g of refined salt, 6 g of MSG, and 1.5 g of baking soda. Stir in one direction until the mixture forms a gel, then refrigerate for 2 hours to set into shrimp paste.

2

Stir-fry

Mix the Shaoxing wine into the bowl sauce, add 10 g of finishing oil, stir-fry evenly, and serve.