Free Recipe Butterfly Shrimp with Snowpeas

Recipe Type: Free Chinese Recipes
Recipe Preparation: boil
Cooking Temperature:
Recipe Serves: 4

Ingredients for Butterfly Shrimp with Snowpeas Recipe

1/4 lb Fresh or frozen medium-
2 Green onions
Sized shrimp 3
tb Peanut oil
1/3 lb Fresh snowpeas
1/2 c Chicken stock
8 lg Fresh or canned water
2 ts Thin soy sauce
Chestnuts 1
ts Dry sherry
1/2 c Unpeeled straw mushrooms
1/2 ts Salt
2 ts Fresh ginger, slivered
1 pn Sugar
1 lg Clove garlic, minced
Cornstarch paste

Butterfly Shrimp with Snowpeas Preparation

Preparation: Soak snowpeas in cold water for 2 hours to make crisp. Soak shrimp in salted cold water for 1 hour. Drain straw mushrooms. Break off ends of snowpeas. Peel & rinse water chestnuts. Shell shrimp, keeping tail intact. Deeply slit shrimp around upper curve (don’t cut through), deveining, & spreading shrimp almost flat. Cut freen onion on the bias in 2 lengths. Slice water chestnuts thinly crosswise. In small bowl, mix stock, soy sauce, sherry, salt & sugar. Stir-frying: Swirl peanut oil into very hot wok. When oil begins to smoke, add shrimp & stir-fry until they curl (about 20 seconds). Remove shrimp to serving platter. Stir-fry mushrooms for 30 seconds; add garlic & ginger; stir-fry another 30 seconds. Add snowpeas & water chestnuts; stir-fry briskly for 1 minute. Add stock mixture; bring to boil; keep tossing until snowpeas are bright green. Push ingredients out of liquid, dribble in cornstarch paste to thicken slightly. Return ingredients, including shrimp. Stir briefly. Serve immediately. HINT: snowpeas should be slightly undercooked when served.

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