MeiNing's Kitchen: Minced shrimp with cabbage lettuce

This is very delicious dish for seafood lovers. We use the cabbage lettuce a lot in Chinese dish. If you put it at refrigerator for couple hours before you eat it, it is very crispy and juicy. There are couple Chinese food dish which use cabbage lettuce as "serving bowl". You eat the food and bowl together. You really can try it at home!!

Ingredient :
1. Shrimp                1/2 lbs        peel the shell, de-veined, washed with salt +
                                                  tapioca starch for 3 mins, and washed out by
                                                  water until the stickiness on the shrimp is all
                                                  gone, dried by paper towel. Pad the shrimp by
                                                  one side of knife and then chopped for small pieces.
2. Waterchestnut     4pcs           peeled and chopped
3. Celery                 1/2 stem     small dice
4. Cabbage lettuce 1 pc            cut the bottom of lettuce and run by the water
                                                  from the bottom until the leaves are full with
                                                  water and are easy to take apart leave by leave.
                                                  Trim it shape the leave a bit and make like as a
                                                  bowl.
5. Scallion              1 1/2 stems 1/2 stem not chopped + 1 sterm chopped
6. Ginger                4 slices and 1 tsp grounded ginger
7. Egg white           half
8. Tapioca starch    1 tsp            Can be replaced by corn starch
9. Rice wine           2 tsp
10. Salt, pepper      1 tsp
11. Sesame oil        1 tsp
12. Green bean noodle    1 pc     cut small pieces by scissors
13. Mixed seasoning : 1 tsp rice wine, 1/2 tsp salt, 1/2 tsp white pepper, 1 tsp
                                     sesame oil

Step by step :
1. Mixed minced shrimp, 1/2 stem not chopped scallion, 4 slices ginger, half egg white, 1 tsp tapioca starch, 2 tsp rice wine, salt and pepper on a big bowl, used chopsticks to mix them for about 3 mins.

Removed the scallion and ginger

2. Prepare a mixed seasoning (Ingredient 13)

3. Prepare 1/3 pot of oil, heat till 300F.

4. Put the shrimp to the oil and use spatula to loose the shrimp. About 3 mins. Used colander to drain the oil for shrimp, set aside.

** use scissors to cut green bean noodle to small pieces

5. Put the Green bean noodle into the hot oil. Only took 10 seconds and all the noodle will pop up. And change another side for another 10 seconds. Take it out and put it on a paper towel. Wait until it is a bit cold, and use hands to break the noodle to small pieces.

** Deep fried green bean noodle, use hands breaking it to small pieces.

6. Leave only a bit oil on the wok. Put ground ginger, chopped water chestnuts, chopped celery into the wok and stir fry for 1 min. Seasoning with salt and pepper to taste. And sprinkle the chopped scallion before scoop it up from wok.