Fried shrimp with fruit salad

with chef Ly Vi Cham from Renaissance Riverside Hotel Saigon

This week Ong Tao’s Kitchen features fried shrimp with fruit salad, a new creation by Ly Vi Cham, chef of the Chinese kitchen at Renaissance Riverside Hotel Saigon.

Cham likes this dish for its contrast of hot and cold. It can be served as an appetizer or a main course.
Ingredients:

200g of shrimp (about 10 shrimps)
100g apple
100g mango
100g dragonfruit
2tbsp mayonnaise
2tsp condensed milk
juice from a half of lemon
½ egg
¼ tsp salt
¼ tsp chicken flour
10g corn starch
30g dried bread crumbs

Preparation:

Remove shell and head of the shrimp but keep the tail. Add salt and chicken flour and leave for 15 minutes.

Cut fruit into squares about 1 cm in size and then mix with mayonnaise, condensed milk and one-quarter of the lemon juice. Put on a plate.

Coat the shrimp well with a mixture of half of the egg and all of the corn starch. Roll the shrimp in the bread crumbs.

Fry the shrimp in hot oil until the coating is crisp and turns yellow.

Display the shrimp on the fruit plate.

Sample this dish at Kabin Chinese Restaurant, Renaissance Riverside Hotel Saigon, 8-15 Ton Duc Thang Street, District 1, HCM City. Tel: (08) 8220033.