Water Bamboo Shrimp Aspic
A Sino-French fusion cold appetizer with dual red and yellow coloring, featuring both sweet and savory flavors.
Ingredients
Instructions
Fry Water Bamboo
Peel and clean the water bamboo, pound gently, cut into 5 cm chopstick-shaped strips, deep-fry in 70% hot oil until shrunk and pale yellow, remove and drain oil; crack eggs into a bowl, separate egg whites and yolks.
Make Green Aspic
Clean the pork rind, place into water with black pepper, salt, bay leaves, and onion, bring to a boil; add two egg whites and salt, stir well, bring to a boil over high heat, strain out impurities, cool to form green aspic, set aside.
Prepare Shrimp Ingredients
Boil onion slices, celery segments, and salt together with shrimp in water until cooked; peel, devein, remove heads and tails, cut into large chunks; pan-fry two egg yolks until set into solid pieces; cut cooked carrots with decorative crosshatch, set aside.
Freeze to Set
Melt the prepared green aspic, pour a small amount into a refrigerator-safe mold, add shrimp chunks, carrot pieces, cooked peas, and egg pieces, pour in the remaining green aspic, freeze in the refrigerator, then cut into blocks, place on one side of the serving plate.
Stir-fry Water Bamboo and Plate
Heat a frying pan, melt butter, stir-fry shredded onion until fragrant, add water bamboo strips and white sugar, stir evenly, place on the other side of the serving plate to serve.