Shrimp Toast, Great Chinese Appetizer.
Ingredients
- 2 cups fresh shrimp, peeled and deveined
- 2 cups canned water chestnuts, drained
- 1 Tbs. all-purpose flour
- 1 egg
- 6 slices white bread, crusts cut away
- Sesame seeds
- Vegetable oil for frying
Instructions
- 1
Put the shrimp meat and the water chestnuts into a food processor or blender, and process into a lumpy paste.
- 2
Scrape contents into a bowl and add the egg and the flour. Stir well.
- 3
Press down on the pieces of bread to flatten them. With a knife, coat each piece of bread with a mound of the shrimp mixture about an inch high. Top with a sparse sprinkling of sesame seeds. Cut each of these into quarters.
- 4
Deep-fry in vegetable oil at 325 degrees until golden brown. Drain excess oil and allow to cool for one minute.