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Ingredients:
(serving 4)
- 400g dried shrimp
- 2 sour tamarinds
- Salt, seasoning powder, black pepper, and fish sauce
- 1 dried onion and 4 cloves of garlic
- 1 bunch of green onions
How to make tamarind-glazed shrimp:
- Soak the shrimp in a bowl of cold water, stir well with your hands to let the sand settle. Pour out the dirty water, repeat for the second time to clean the shrimp.
Note: If using fresh shrimp, simply rinse them with diluted salt water.
- Drain the shrimp in a colander to remove excess water, then mix in half a teaspoon of salt.
- Wash the tamarind, trim off the edges, then slice it into small pieces.
- Wash and finely chop the green onions. Peel and slice the dried onion and garlic.
- Heat cooking oil, sauté the dried onion and garlic until fragrant, then add the tamarind and stir-fry for about 3 minutes.
- Next, add the shrimp and stir well, season with a tablespoon of fish sauce, a teaspoon of seasoning powder, half a teaspoon of salt, stir with chopsticks.
- Taste and adjust seasoning according to your preference, turn off the heat, sprinkle green onions and a bit of black pepper on the surface of the shrimp. Serve on a plate as a savory dish with rice.
Method 2:
Ingredients:
(serving 4)
- Fresh shrimp: 400g
- Sour tamarind: 1 large or 2 small ones
- Several sprigs of green onions
- Seasonings: fish sauce, salt, sugar, black pepper
- Cooking oil
How to make sour starfruit fried shrimp:
- Clean the shrimp, drain, marinate with half a teaspoon of salt for about 10 minutes. Then heat the stove, sauté the onion with fat, then add the shrimp to fry until the shrimp turn pink, then pour fish sauce in and stir (the amount of fish sauce depends on your family's taste preference).
Note: During the frying process, the shrimp will release a lot of water, when the water dries out, add 1 teaspoon of sugar, stir well, then turn off the stove and wait for the sugar to dissolve and penetrate into the shrimp, making the shrimp meat firmer and the shrimp shell crispier.
- Clean the starfruit, remove the edges, then slice thinly to create star shapes.
- Clean and finely chop the onions.
- About half an hour later, the sugar has dissolved and evenly soaked into the shrimp, you turn on the stove again and fry the shrimp over low heat.
Quick tip: Frying the shrimp twice will make the dish much more delicious, crispy, and flavorful.
- When the shrimp shells become crispy and darker in color, add the thinly sliced starfruit.
- Once the starfruit softens, sprinkle chopped green onions, drizzle with 1 teaspoon of oil or cooking oil to make the shrimp shiny, toss a bit more and then take it out, add ½ teaspoon of ground pepper for a fragrant aroma.
Method 3:
Ingredients:
(for 4 servings)
- 400 grams of fresh shrimp
- 2 sour starfruits
- 1 bulb of dried onion
- 5 kaffir lime leaves
- Seasonings: salt, seasoning powder, black pepper, sugar, fish sauce
- Cooking oil
How to make sour starfruit fried shrimp:
- Remove the whiskers from the shrimp, then wash them thoroughly with diluted salt water. Drain, then marinate with a little salt.
- Clean the starfruit, remove the edges, then slice into thin pieces. Wash the chili peppers and kaffir lime leaves, finely chop. Peel and wash the dried onion, then slice.
- Heat cooking oil, sauté the dried onion until fragrant. When the onion becomes fragrant and slightly golden, add the starfruit and stir-fry for about 3 minutes over medium heat.
- Continue to add the shrimp, stir well, season with a tablespoon of fish sauce, a teaspoon of seasoning powder, a teaspoon of sugar (adjust seasoning according to your taste, if you prefer sweeter, you can add more sugar).
- When the fish sauce evaporates and the shrimp turns red, turn off the heat, sprinkle kaffir lime leaves and black pepper on the surface of the shrimp.
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Compiled by Ngọc Anh – PasGo.vn
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