Chinese-style shrimp balls with shrimp sauce
Chinese-style shrimp balls with shrimp sauce

Hey everyone, it is Brad, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, chinese-style shrimp balls with shrimp sauce. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

For the Shrimp Balls: Pat shrimp dry with paper towels and transfer to a food processor. Dip ingredients into simmering broth until just cooked, then dip into one of the dipping sauces and enjoy. Fried Shrimp Balls - Crispy and crunchy shrimp balls, a popular and delicious Chinese appetizer. Today, I am sharing with you my shrimp balls recipe.

Chinese-style shrimp balls with shrimp sauce is one of the most favored of current trending foods in the world. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. They are nice and they look fantastic. Chinese-style shrimp balls with shrimp sauce is something that I’ve loved my whole life.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have chinese-style shrimp balls with shrimp sauce using 16 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you cook that.

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

The shrimp balls are nicely seasoned and have water chestnuts added for some crunch. 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.

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.

You can choose the dipping sauce to accompany them. 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. Dim sum quality shrimp balls made simple and easy!

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