Stir-Fried Prawns with Vegetables

Name: Stir-Fried Prawns with Vegetables (Chin ch’an t’uo k’o)
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 1 egg white; ½ teaspoon sugar; ½ teaspoon salt; 10 (1” long) green onions; 5 cups oil; ½ teaspoon wine; ⅓ teaspoon salt; 1 tomato; sprig of parsley; ½ tablespoon wine; 1 tablespoon cornstarch; 12 small prawns; 7 oz. ground pork; 6 water chestnuts; ¼ teaspoon black pepper; 6 baby corn; 10 snow peas

Chin ch’an t’uo k’o

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Pei-Mei’s Chinese Cookbook

By Fu Pei-Mei

Published 1969

About

Ingredients

12 small prawns
7 oz. ground pork
6 water chestnuts

Asia
Taiwan
Starter
Gluten-free

Method

Remove head of prawn, cut each into two and remove meat from shell. Score back of prawn meat to flatten into big piece. Marinate with wine, cornstarch, and egg white (save shells).
Mix ground pork and chopped water chestnuts with wine, salt, sugar, and cornstarch, and stuff into prawn shells. (Before stuffing, sprinkle some cornstarch on the inside of each shel