Stir-fried Shrimp Slices with Pea Shoots
This vibrant Sichuan dish features crisp pea shoots and tender, fragrant shrimp slices, prepared by first velveting marinated shrimp slices until just cooked, then stir-frying them with the pea shoots.
Ingredients
Instructions
Ingredient Preparation
Peel and remove heads from shrimp, make a small cut along the back to devein, then rinse clean. Slice each shrimp piece into thin slices. Slice the ginger. Split the scallion and cut into 2 cm long segments. Wash the pea shoots and remove the tips.
Marinating and Coating
Mix 25 g of wet starch and egg white into a batter. Separately, mix the shrimp slices with 3 g salt, 3 g MSG, and 10 g cooking wine evenly, let it marinate to absorb flavor, then coat with the egg batter.
Preparing Thickening Sauce and Blanching in Oil
Then mix the remaining cooking wine, MSG, salt, wet starch, and 50 g of stock into a sauce and set aside. Heat the wok, add oil, put the shrimp slices into the hot oil to blanch until cooked, then remove.