Name: Velveted Shrimp with Broccoli Flowerets (芥蘭炒蝦)
Yield: It serves 2 or 3 as a main course.
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 2 teaspoons sesame oil; ½ teaspoon sugar; 1 tablespoon light soy sauce; 3 tablespoons chicken stock or water; 1 tablespoon dry sherry; ½ teaspoon salt; 1 medium clove garlic, lightly smashed and peeled; 2 cups fresh broccoli flowerets; 3 tablespoons oil; 1 pound velveted medium-sized whole shrimp; 4 thin slices peeled ginger

Preparation info

It serves
2 or 3
as a main course.

Appears in

The Key to Chinese Cooking

By Irene Kuo

Published 1977

About

This is a lovely light dish, bright green broccoli contrasting with the fluffy pink-and-white shrimp. In a Chinese meal it would blend well with a red-cooked meat or fowl or any one of the spicy bean-paste-seasoned meat or poultry dishes.

Ingredients

2 cups fresh broccoli flowerets
1 pound velveted medium-sized whole shrimp

Method

Preparations

Rinse and shake dry a medium head of broccoli. Break off the individual flowerets; cut any large ones so that they are all uniform in size. (Save the broccoli stalks for another dish. See vegetable chapter. Sliced thin they are a lovely substitute for snow peas in any recipe calling for them.)

Bring a large pot of water to a boil wit