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Recipe of Award-winning Shrimp Toast

 ·  ☕ 5 min read  ·  ✍️ Belle Hicks
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Shrimp Toast

Hello everybody, it is Brad, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, shrimp toast. It is one of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Spread shrimp paste onto bread in an equal thickness as the bread. Cut slices in half and then diagonally into diamond shapes. When oil is hot, place bread slices, paste side down, into the oil. Shrimp toast is the latest addition to our compendium of retro Chinese takeout recipes.

Shrimp Toast is one of the most favored of current trending meals in the world. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Shrimp Toast is something that I have loved my whole life.

To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have shrimp toast using 26 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Shrimp Toast:
  1. Make ready 250 g Shrimps Deveined Shelled,
  2. Take 1 TSP Baking Soda,
  3. Make ready 1 Cup Ice Cubes,
  4. Get 2 TBSP Egg White,
  5. Make ready 1 TBSP Tapioca Starch,
  6. Get Pinch Sea Salt,
  7. Take Pinch White Pepper,
  8. Prepare 2 TBSP Homemade Thai Chili Paste,
  9. Get 1 TSP Sesame Oil,
  10. Make ready 1 Handful Scallions White Parts Only Finely Chopped,
  11. Get Canola / Peanut / Vegetable Oil, For Frying
  12. Make ready 2 White Soft Japanese Bread,
  13. Make ready 3 TBSP White Sesame Seeds,
  14. Take 1 TBSP Black Sesame Seeds,
  15. Get 1 Handful Scallions Green Parts Only Finely Chopped,
  16. Make ready Thai Chili Paste:
  17. Make ready 5 Cloves Garlic,
  18. Make ready 2 Shallots,
  19. Prepare 5 Dried Red Chilies Deseeded,
  20. Prepare 2 TBSP Dried Shrimps,
  21. Prepare 1.5 TBSP Tamarind Juice,
  22. Make ready Pinch Sea Salt,
  23. Take 1.5 TBSP Palm Sugar,
  24. Prepare 1/2 TBSP Fish Sauce,
  25. Make ready 1/8 TSP Shrimp Pasta,
  26. Make ready 1/8 Cup Canola / Peanut / Vegetable Oil,

Deep fry shrimp toast until golden brown. Chinese shrimp toast is one of my favorite appetizers. Commonly served in dim sum restaurants, they are crispy, delicious, with white toast filled with shrimp and fried to golden perfection. Vietnamese and Thai have a similar version of these shrimp toasts, but flavored with fish sauce.

Steps to make Shrimp Toast:
  1. You can use store-bought Thai chili paste or you can make your own. - - Prepare the Thai chili paste. - - Preheat oven to 200 degree celsius or 400 fahrenheit. - - Wrap garlic and shallot in a aluminium foil. - - Wack into the oven and roast for about 30 mins or until the garlic and shallots are soft.
  2. Toast dried chilies in a skillet over medium heat. - - Toast until aromatic and the chilies are lightly charred. - - Blitz the toasted chili under powder forms in a spice grinder.
  3. Blitz up the dried shrimps into fine pieces in the spice grinder as well. - - Transfer the roasted garlic, shallots, toasted chilies and shrimps into a blender. - - Add in the rest of the ingredients. - - Blitz until smooth paste form.
  4. Transfer into the same skillet over medium heat. - - You can add 1/4 cup of water into the blender to blitz up all the leftover nooks and crannies. Transfer the water mixture into the skillet. - - Cook until most of the liquid has evaporated and it turns a darker shade of red. - - Remove from heat and transfer into a sterilized jar. - - It can be kept in the fridge for up to 30 days.
  5. Transfer the shrimps into a large bowl. - - Coat the shrimps well with baking soda. - - Add just enuff cold water to submerge the shrimps.
  6. Add in the ice cubes. - - Set aside for at least 30 mins. - - Drain and rinse the shrimps thoroughly under running water.
  7. Pat the shrimps dry with kitchen paper. - - Place shrimps into a small bowl along with egg white and tapioca starch. - - Mix and coat the shrimps well with the marinade. - - Cover with cling film and marinade in fridge overnight.
  8. Next day, transfer shrimps onto a chopping board. - - Chop the shrimps coarsely into fine pieces. - - Transfer the chopped shrimps back into the bowl with any leftover marinade. - - Add in salt, pepper, chili paste, sesame oil and scallions.
  9. Mix to combine well. - - Add canola oil into a dutch oven, about 2 inches in depth, over medium heat. - - To check if the temperature of the oil is ready, place a wooden chopstick into the oil. - - If bubbles start to form, the temperature is ready for frying.
  10. Spread the shrimp mixture onto the bread - - Cut into 4 squares. - - Mix white and black sesame seeds together in a shallow bowl. - - Dunk the toast into the sesame seeds mixture, shrimp side down.
  11. Carefully drop the toasts into the oil. - - Deep fried until golden brown on both sides.s. - - Remove from heat and drain off excess oil on a wire cooling rack or on a plate lined with kitchen paper. - - Garnish with some more scallions. - - Serve immediately.

Commonly served in dim sum restaurants, they are crispy, delicious, with white toast filled with shrimp and fried to golden perfection. Vietnamese and Thai have a similar version of these shrimp toasts, but flavored with fish sauce. They are comparable in taste and texture. Shrimp toast is one of the tastiest bites at the dim sum table. I didn't actually like shrimp toast growing up, but when I finally got around to trying it, I couldn't believe how much flavor was.

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