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Stir-fried Shrimp with Peanuts

Korean-style stir-fried dish featuring tender shrimp and crispy fried peanuts in a spicy, savory thickened sauce.

45 min
Easy
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Stir-fried Shrimp with Peanuts

Ingredients

Small shrimp (cleaned, shrimp meat squeezed out, soaked in clear water) 1000 g
Soybean oil (for frying shrimp and peanuts) 1000 g (actual consumption 75 g)
Fried peanuts (skins removed, cut in half) 150 g
Refined salt (5 g used for marinating shrimp) 7.5 g
Cooking wine 25 g
Starch (15 g wet starch used for marinating, rest for thickening sauce) 40 g
Ground pepper 1 g
Chili powder 1 g
Chicken broth (part used for marinating, rest for thickening sauce) 50 ml
Green onion (peeled, cleaned, sliced) 10 g
Ginger (peeled, cleaned, sliced) 5 g
Eggs (yolks removed, whites mixed with starch to make egg white batter) 2
MSG 7 g

Instructions

1

Prepare shrimp and peanuts

Clean small shrimp, squeeze out shrimp meat and soak in clear water; remove skins from fried peanuts and cut them in half

2

Prepare ingredients

Peel and clean green onion and ginger, slice them; remove yolks from eggs, take egg whites, add starch and stir evenly to make egg white batter

3

Marinate shrimp

Put shrimp meat in a porcelain basin, add 5 g salt, cooking wine, MSG, chicken broth, 15 g wet starch, sliced green onion, sliced ginger, ground pepper, chili powder, stir evenly and marinate until flavorful

4

Make starch sauce

Remove shrimp meat, pick out sliced green onion and ginger from the porcelain basin, add remaining chicken broth, stir evenly to make starch sauce

5

Stir-fry shrimp

Heat a wok, add soybean oil, heat then cool slightly, put shrimp coated with egg white batter in, stir-fry until white and cooked, remove and drain oil

6

Combine and serve

Leave 50 g oil in the wok, heat to low temperature, add fried peanuts, quick fry and stir a few times, add shrimp, stir-fry a few times, pour in the prepared starch sauce, stir evenly when the sauce is cooked, then serve on a plate