The Asian preservation culture…
In Asian culture, salt preservation method is commonly used in preserving meats and vegetables. In this golden prawns recipe, we are using one of the popular preserved ingredients – salted egg to burst the flavour.
How to make/DIY salted egg?
Traditional salted eggs are made of duck eggs. By soaking the duck eggs in brine with anise star and Sichuan pepper for at least a month, the saltiness will then immerse into the eggs and harden the egg yolk and condense the irresistible flavour.
Taste the Flavours
If you are enthusiast of eating evil and enticing food (i.e. Baked cheese, deep fried drum stick etc.), this is one of the dish you must not missed! With the flavourful umami from prawns and melty texture of the salted egg, I’m sure that you can finish the whole dish within 5 minutes!
Salted Egg Prawns (Chinese Golden Prawns 黃金蝦球)
Ingredients
Main Ingredients
- 200 g Prawn
- 2 pieces Salted egg yolks
- 1 piece Egg white
- ½ cup Corn starch
- 3 tbsp Oil
- 2 gloves Garlic
- 2 tbsp Butter
- ¼ tsp Sugar
- ¼ tsp Soy sauce
Marinades
- ½ tsp Salt
- ½ tsp Chinese rice wine
- Little White pepper (Optional)
Instructions
- Wash and dry the prawns. Marinate the prawns with the marinades for 20 mins. Mince the garlic.
- Steam the salted egg yolks for 15 mins. After that, mash the salted egg with fork.
- Dry the prawns after marination. Coat the prawns with egg white and then corn starch.
- Heat the pan with oil. Add prawns and fry until coating turn golden and crispy. Get the prawns out from the pan.
- Reheat the pan with butter. Add garlic, salted egg yolks, soy sauce and sugar to stir fry it.
