Deep Fried Shrimp Cutlets

Name: Deep Fried Shrimp Cutlets (Hsi ha hsiao hsia p’ai)
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 1 cup bread crumbs; 8 cups oil; 12 toothpicks; ½ teaspoon salt; ¼ teaspoon black pepper; 2 eggs; ½ cup flour; 60 peeled small shrimp; 8 scallion (2” long); 3 slices ginger; ½ tablespoon wine

Hsi ha hsiao hsia p’ai

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Pei-Mei’s Chinese Cookbook

By Fu Pei-Mei

Published 1969

About

Ingredients

60 peeled small shrimp
8 scallion (2” long)
3 slices

Asia
Taiwan
Dinner
Fish course
Pescatarian

Method

Clean the shrimp and pat dry. Add the salt, black pepper, chopped scallion and ginger to marinate about 10 minutes.
Put five shrimps on a toothpick. Dredge them with dry flour. Then dip them in the beaten eggs and coat them with bread crumbs.
Heat the oil in a pan to 240°F. As you slip the shrimps into the pan, remove the toothpick. Deep fry over medi