Har Gow Shrimp Dumplings
About Har Gow Shrimp Dumplings - Cantonese Cuisine
Shrimp Dumpling Emperor is a classic traditional dish in Guangdong and a representative work of Cantonese cuisine. With a wide range of ingredients, light and fresh flavors, and emphasis on originality, Xiājiǎo is famous for its steaming, stir-frying, frying, and pot cooking. Xiājiǎo is widely popular in local families and restaurants.
Ingredients
- Shrimp 500g
- Salt as appropriate
- Appropriate amount of cooking oil
- 1 tablespoon soy sauce
Instructions
- 1. Marinate shrimp dumplings with cooking wine and a little starch for 10 minutes
- 2. Heat oil in the pot, slide in the shrimp dumplings and stir-fry quickly until they change color and serve.
- 3. Leave the oil in the pot and sauté the minced garlic and ginger until fragrant.
- 4. Add shrimp and stir-fry until cooked
- 5. Pour back the shrimp dumplings, add oyster sauce and light soy sauce and stir-fry quickly evenly
- 6. Thinly thicken the gravy, take it out of the pan and serve on a plate
Cultural Notes
Shrimp Dumpling Emperor embodies the culinary essence of Cantonese cuisine. Cantonese cuisine is one of the eight major cuisines in China, represented by Guangzhou cuisine. Cantonese cuisine pursues the freshness and original taste of ingredients, and the cooking techniques emphasize freshness, tenderness, smoothness and fragrance. Cantonese people are fond of fine food, and Cantonese cuisine is known as one of the most internationally influential Chinese cuisines. In Guangdong, people are very particular about the selection of ingredients and the control of heat, and the Shrimp Dumpling Emperor is the epitome of this ingenuity.