Deep Fried Shrimp Cakes

Name: Deep Fried Shrimp Cakes (Cha hsia t’o)
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 5 lettuce leaves; 7 cups oil; 1 teaspoon flavored peppercorn salt; 1 egg white; ½ teaspoon ginger juice; ½ teaspoon salt; ½ tablespoon wine; 1 tablespoon cornstarch; ½ pound raw shrimp (without shell); 2 oz. pork fat; 6 slices white bread; 1 teaspoon black sesame seeds; 1 tablespoon ham (chopped)

Cha hsia t’o

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Pei-Mei’s Chinese Cookbook

By Fu Pei-Mei

Published 1969

About

Ingredients

½ pound raw shrimp (without shell)
2 oz. pork fat
6 s

Asia
Taiwan
Shansi
Honan
Shantung
Hopeh
Main course

Method

Clean and chop the shrimp and pork very fine, put in a bowl, add salt, wine, ginger juice, mix well. Add egg white and cornstarch. Mix thoroughly.
Remove the crust from sliced bread, cut each slice into 4 pieces (or 4 rounds). Put about ½ tablespoon shrimp mixture on each piece bread and spread evenly to edges. Sprinkle some black sesame seeds and chopped ham o