Chinese Seafood Recipes - Paper-Wrapped and Deep Fat Fried Prawns

Ingredients

• shredded lettuce heart

• 2 raw Pacific prawns

• 1 small clove garlic

• 1 thin slice fresh ginger root

• pinch pepper

• 1/2 teaspoon sesame oil

• 1/2 teaspoon ginger sherry

• salt to taste

• pinch Ve-Tsin (M.S.G.)

• 1/2 egg white

• good pinch corn-flour

• 1 tablespoon canned bamboo shoots

• peanut oil

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Method:

1. Cut the lettuce into thin strips and place them on a serving dish. After removing the black intestinal lines, finely chopped the prawns.

2. Add the finely chopped garlic and ginger and then the pepper, each rubbed with a little peanut oil.

3. Place on-sixth of the mixture towards one corner of each. Fold over this corner and then the two sides and tuck in the remaining flap.

4. Heat enough peanut oil for deep-frying. Test by dropping a piece of potato into it. It should rise but not bounce up.

5. Lower the 'packets' into it and cook for 5 minutes when they will be beautifully brown. Place on the bed of lettuce.

6. Unwrap each 'packet' and eat from the paper.