Coin-Shaped Shrimp Cakes

Name: Coin-Shaped Shrimp Cakes (Chin chien hsia ping)
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: ½ tablespoon wine; 1 cup oil; 2-½ oz. pork fat (ground); 2-½ oz. pork fat (ground); ½ teaspoon salt; 2 tablespoons water; 1 teaspoon brown peppercorn salt; ¼ teaspoon ginger juice; 1 tablespoon egg white; 1 tablespoon cornstarch; 10 oz. peeled shrimp

Chin chien hsia ping

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Pei-Mei’s Chinese Cookbook

By Fu Pei-Mei

Published 1969

About

Ingredients

10 oz. peeled shrimp
2-½ oz. pork fat (ground)

Asia
Taiwan
Sichuan
Shengtu
Chungking
Starter
Gluten-free

Method

Clean shrimp with salt and water, drain dry. Smash them and put into big bowl. Add pork fat and wine, ½ teaspoon salt, 2 tablespoons water, ¼ teaspoon ginger juice, 1 tablespoon egg white, and 1 tablespoon cornstarch. Stir with chopsticks in one direction until very sticky.
Heat pan, add 1 cup oil, shake pan so that the oil covers the entire pan, reduce heat to