Hey everyone, it’s me, Dave, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, chinese-style shrimp balls with shrimp sauce. One of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Chinese-style shrimp balls with shrimp sauce is one of the most favored of recent trending meals on earth. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. Chinese-style shrimp balls with shrimp sauce is something that I have loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.

Reserve shells, tails, and heads for the sauce. Mince the shrimp and water chestnuts. In a medium bowl, combine the minced shrimp and water chestnuts. Mix in the chopped green onion, grated ginger, soy sauce, rice wine, sugar, sesame oil, pepper, egg white, and cornstarch.

To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have chinese-style shrimp balls with shrimp sauce using 16 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Chinese-style shrimp balls with shrimp sauce:

1. Prepare Shrimp balls
2. Prepare 600 grams shrimp
3. Make ready 2 tsp potato starch or corn starch
4. Take 1/2 tsp salt
5. Make ready 1/2 egg white
6. Get 1/2 tsp sesame oil
7. Prepare 1/4 tsp white pepper (original recipe says 1/8)
8. Take Shrimp sauce
9. Prepare Shells, tails, and heads from the shrimp
10. Get 2 tbs minced garlic
11. Prepare 2 tbs minced ginger
12. Get 4 tbs chopped green onions
13. Get 1 small pinch chili flakes (optional)
14. Prepare 1 cup chicken broth
15. Take 1-2 tbs oil
16. Get Corn starch slurry

But when plunged into a sauce made of soy sauce, rice vinegar, pressed garlic, chili paste and scallions, the flavor combination is out of this world. EXPERT TIP: The chili paste is what gives the sauce some heat. If you like your food extra spicy, go with three tablespoons of chili paste. You could also serve these mouth-watering shrimp balls as an appetizer with your choice of dipping sauce.

Steps to make Chinese-style shrimp balls with shrimp sauce:

1. Peel and devein shrimp. Reserve shells, tails, and heads for the sauce.
2. Mix the shrimp, salt, and 1 tsp of the starch in a bowl. Let sit for seven minutes.
3. After seven minutes, thoroughly rinse off the shrimp, then pat dry with paper towels. Once the shrimp are dry, chop them up roughly, put them in a bowl, and mash them into a paste.
4. Add in the remaining 1 tsp of starch, egg white, sesame oil, and pepper. Stir until thoroughly combined. IMPORTANT: stir in ONE DIRECTION only. This is key for the consistency of the paste.
5. Once combined, gather up the paste in one hand and throw it hard back into the bowl (not baseball pitcher hard but with some real force). THIS STEP IS IMPORTANT. I believe this is to help break down the proteins and give the balls that firm consistency. Do this at least six times and until paste is sticky (I did it more like ten or twelve).
6. Cover shrimp mixture and let chill in the fridge for 30 minutes.
7. While the shrimp mixture chills, make the sauce.
8. Over medium heat, cook the garlic, ginger, and green onions in the oil until fragrant (about 30 secs to one minute). Add in the reserved shells, tails, and heads, and cook until they turn color. As they cook, press down on them to extract max flavor.
9. Add in chicken stock (and chili flakes, if you like spicy), turn up the heat to a near boil, then reduce the heat and let simmer until sauce reduces, around 20 minutes. Continue to press on the shells, etc. and add more stock if reducing too quickly.
10. When reduced by half or more, strain the sauce and reserve the liquid.
11. Take the shrimp paste out of the fridge, form it into balls, and then steam them over high heat for five minutes. You should get about twelve balls in total if you make a full batch.
12. While the balls cook, put the sauce in a pan, gently simmer, and add a little slurry to thicken it up a bit (easy to overdo this).
13. Remove balls from steamer, pour sauce over them, garnish as you like (I used ginger and cilantro), and serve.

If you like your food extra spicy, go with three tablespoons of chili paste. You could also serve these mouth-watering shrimp balls as an appetizer with your choice of dipping sauce. Additionally, my family also loves macaroni and cheese balls and boudin balls. In a mixing bowl add shrimp, breadcrumbs, water chestnuts, ginger, soy, sriracha sauce and mix well with a spoon Cover a baking tray with aluminum foil and brush a thin layer of oil. Drain on a paper lined plate.

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