Stir Fried Shrimp with Salted Egg Yolk

Stir Fried Shrimp with Salted Egg Yolk

Sounds like a traditional cuisine, especially with salted egg yolk. Well, traditional or not, it is a wonderfully delicious cuisine with mouth watering taste and flavour of salted duck egg yolk. Cooking this cuisine was my wife's idea because we have eaten such cuisine bartered with salted egg yolk many times before and we really loved it. We have tried salted egg yolk with crab, lobster, squid and fish fillet. In fact, the salted egg yolk blends really well with seafood, especially the ones with thick and hard skins. But, this is the first time, we are cooking this at home.

Salted Egg Yolk Battered Shrimp

The shrimp can be with or without their skins on. I prefer mine peeled but leaving the tail with a bit of skin. After cleaning, drip the shrimps off as much liquid as possible. May be allow it to sit in a container (or basket) with small little holes at the base to drain the liquid away. Then, in a wok, add one spoon of cooking oil followed with five salted duck egg yolks (boiled and cooked then smashed to crumbs) and add the shrimps (500 grams), stir fried for a few minutes until the yolk is evenly coated on all the shrimps and the shrimps turn golden brown with coated egg yolk. Once done, transfer to a serving plate. Can also add some curry leaves for extra flavour and aroma.