Shrimp toast

Name: Shrimp toast
Cuisine: China
Ingredients: a dash of rice wine, sake or dry sherry; 6 slices white bread, crusts removed; 300 g/11 oz peeled shrimps or small shelled raw prawns, finely minced with; 75 g/3 oz fatty pork, such as belly of pork; 2 tablespoons minced cooked ham; 3 tablespoons white sesame seeds; sea salt and freshly ground black pepper; vegetable oil, for frying; 2 teaspoons cornflour; 1 tablespoon sesame oil; 2 spring onions, trimmed and minced; 1 egg white, beaten; 6 water chestnuts, rinsed, dried and minced

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Floyd's China

By Keith Floyd

Published 2005

About

Ingredients

300 g/11 oz peeled shrimps or small shelled raw prawns, finely minced with
75 g/

Asia
China
Fish course
Snack

Method

Mix the minced shrimps or prawns and the pork with the water chestnuts, spring onions, egg white, cornflour and sesame oil. Season with rice wine, sake or sherry and salt and pepper and beat to a paste.
Spread the mixture over the bread, then sprinkle with the ham and sesame seeds, pressing them lightly into the paste. Cut each slice into three strips.