Recipe of Award-winning Chinese-style shrimp balls with shrimp sauce

Hey everyone, it is John, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, chinese-style shrimp balls with shrimp sauce. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

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Fried Shrimp Balls - Crispy and crunchy shrimp balls, a popular and delicious Chinese appetizer. Today, I am sharing with you my shrimp balls recipe. Don't you think they look oh-so-adorable with the crispy and It's often served as a dim sum at Hong Kong-style restaurants or dim sum restaurants. For the Shrimp Balls: Pat shrimp dry with paper towels and transfer to a food processor.

To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have chinese-style shrimp balls with shrimp sauce using 16 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Chinese-style shrimp balls with shrimp sauce:

1. Make ready Shrimp balls
2. Get 600 grams shrimp
3. Get 2 tsp potato starch or corn starch
4. Prepare 1/2 tsp salt
5. Get 1/2 egg white
6. Take 1/2 tsp sesame oil
7. Take 1/4 tsp white pepper (original recipe says 1/8)
8. Take Shrimp sauce
9. Take Shells, tails, and heads from the shrimp
10. Take 2 tbs minced garlic
11. Make ready 2 tbs minced ginger
12. Get 4 tbs chopped green onions
13. Prepare 1 small pinch chili flakes (optional)
14. Prepare 1 cup chicken broth
15. Prepare 1-2 tbs oil
16. Make ready Corn starch slurry

They are sure to please your guests, whether set out on an appetizer buffet or passed. You can choose the dipping sauce to accompany them. In the meantime, roughly chop the shrimp. Chop the scallion, ginger, and lemongrass.

Steps to make Chinese-style shrimp balls with shrimp sauce:

1. Peel and devein shrimp. Reserve shells, tails, and heads for the sauce.
2. Mix the shrimp, salt, and 1 tsp of the starch in a bowl. Let sit for seven minutes.
3. After seven minutes, thoroughly rinse off the shrimp, then pat dry with paper towels. Once the shrimp are dry, chop them up roughly, put them in a bowl, and mash them into a paste.
4. Add in the remaining 1 tsp of starch, egg white, sesame oil, and pepper. Stir until thoroughly combined. IMPORTANT: stir in ONE DIRECTION only. This is key for the consistency of the paste.
5. Once combined, gather up the paste in one hand and throw it hard back into the bowl (not baseball pitcher hard but with some real force). THIS STEP IS IMPORTANT. I believe this is to help break down the proteins and give the balls that firm consistency. Do this at least six times and until paste is sticky (I did it more like ten or twelve).
6. Cover shrimp mixture and let chill in the fridge for 30 minutes.
7. While the shrimp mixture chills, make the sauce.
8. Over medium heat, cook the garlic, ginger, and green onions in the oil until fragrant (about 30 secs to one minute). Add in the reserved shells, tails, and heads, and cook until they turn color. As they cook, press down on them to extract max flavor.
9. Add in chicken stock (and chili flakes, if you like spicy), turn up the heat to a near boil, then reduce the heat and let simmer until sauce reduces, around 20 minutes. Continue to press on the shells, etc. and add more stock if reducing too quickly.
10. When reduced by half or more, strain the sauce and reserve the liquid.
11. Take the shrimp paste out of the fridge, form it into balls, and then steam them over high heat for five minutes. You should get about twelve balls in total if you make a full batch.
12. While the balls cook, put the sauce in a pan, gently simmer, and add a little slurry to thicken it up a bit (easy to overdo this).
13. Remove balls from steamer, pour sauce over them, garnish as you like (I used ginger and cilantro), and serve.

In the meantime, roughly chop the shrimp. Chop the scallion, ginger, and lemongrass. Put the ground pork (I always mince the meat fresh, at home), shrimp, scallion, ginger, lemongrass, kaffir lime leaf, garlic, fish sauce, and egg into a food processor and blend to a smooth mass. Prawns/shrimp - if using frozen (which I do), thaw completely and pat with paper towels to remove excess water. The prawns are raw, they might look cooked because they're a.

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