shrimp stir fry

[Fred]

I got suckered into doing shrimp stir-fry for 4 Wednesday night. :banginghe

Ideas??????????????

 

[builder]

City Wok

$6.95 with sweet tea and an egg roll.

 

[Honeygirl]

I got suckered into doing shrimp stir-fry for 4 Wednesday night. :banginghe

Ideas??????????????

If you're putting rice in with the stir-fry, cook it the day before and chill it. Rice works best in a stir-fry when it's been chilled the night before. Also - I pre-cook my shrimps / prawns in hot oil and spices and then take them off the heat and into a seperate bowl altogether, and add them in later. Don't over complicate the stir-fry with too much of everything - keep it simple and make sure that before you cook off the shrimp (that will only need a few minutes) that you pat dry them with a towel before they hit the oil...you don't want it to simmer into a watery mess.

Wait - you were cooking it weren't you - or did you want takeaway ideas?

 

[Fred]

If you're putting rice in with the stir-fry, cook it the day before and chill it. Rice works best in a stir-fry when it's been chilled the night before. Also - I pre-cook my shrimps / prawns in hot oil and spices and then take them off the heat and into a seperate bowl altogether, and add them in later. Don't over complicate the stir-fry with too much of everything - keep it simple and make sure that before you cook off the shrimp (that will only need a few minutes) that you pat dry them with a towel before they hit the oil...you don't want it to simmer into a watery mess.

Wait - you were cooking it weren't you - or did you want takeaway ideas?

I was planning on cooking it. I thought I could just get the veggies, marinate them, put them in the wok, cook them, add the shrimp and lay it on a bed of rice. :huh:

 

[Southern_Yankee]

I was planning on cooking it. I thought I could just get the veggies, marinate them, put them in the wok, cook them, add the shrimp and lay it on a bed of rice. :huh:

cook your rice with chicken broth (2:1 broth to rice) for 15 minutes covered, set aside an additional 5 minutes before serving.

carrots, broccoli, onion, water chestnuts (sliced)...saute over high heat. Right before it's done...add shrimp. Then I like to make a sweet/sour/spicy sauce out of Texas Pete, apple jelly and butter. Dont measure any of it....if you like it hot/spicier, use more Pete, milder...use more jelly and butter. Make it all in the same pan and reduce until you get the consistency you want and serve over rice.

 

[Fred]

Thanks HG and SY. I printed your suggestions out and will see what happens Wednesday night.

 

[Southern_Yankee]

the only real difference between her's and mine is that she cooks her rice ahead of time and cools....like they do in the Jap steak houses...with the egg. It's really a waste of time/equipment/burners and they only do it for the show IMO.

 

[Fred]

this worked great.

I got 2 bags of the frozen stir fry mix and 2 pounds of shirmp. I gutted them, deshelled them and washed them real good. Then I let them soak 6 hours in this Korean shrimp marinate. We got the wok oil real hot and slowly added the veggies and as they cooked we slowly added the shrimp. I tossed in a few spices here and there and slow cooked it about 10 minutes and served the little bastards over rice.