Name: Quail’s Egg Sesame Toast
Yield: Makes 8 Toasts
Cuisine: China
Ingredients: 4 slices of white bread, crusts removed; 2 eggs, lightly beaten; 250 g/9 oz/generous 1 cup minced/ground pork; 4 quail’s eggs, hard-boiled; 5 ml/1 tsp cornflour/cornstarch; sesame seeds, for coating; sliced cucumber and hoisin sauce or chilli sauce, to serve; vegetable oil, for deep-frying; 15 ml/1 tbsp light soy sauce; 2.5 ml/½ tsp white pepper

Preparation info

Makes
8
Toasts

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

China

By Terry Tan

Published 2020

About

Sesame toast is a favourite on dim sum menus everywhere and makes a good choice of finger food when you are entertaining. This recipe has a hard-boiled quail’s egg sitting beneath the usual filling of minced pork. When coated with sesame seeds and deep-fried, these have an intriguing flavour and texture.

Ingredients

4 quail’s eggs, hard-boiled
4 slices of white bread, crusts removed
2 eggs, lightly

Asia
China
Shanghai
Main course

Method

Put the quail’s eggs in a small pan of boiling water and cook for 5 minutes. Drain, then cool in cold water. Shell the eggs and cut each in half.
Cut each slice of bread into two triangles. Brush with beaten egg. Mix the pork with the soy sauce, pepper and cornflour, stirring well.
Place a halved quail’s egg, cut side down, on each bread triangle and

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