Chinese Prawn Omelets
From auntybea 15 years ago
- 10 minutes to make
- Serves 4
These are like egg foo yong with prawns. They make a great side dish if you are making a Chinese entree. The recipe comes from Australian Women's Weekly Chinese Cooking Class cookbook.
Ingredients
- 8 eggs shopping list
- salt and pepper shopping list
- oil shopping list
- 2 oz. mushrooms shopping list
- 4 shallots or spring onions shopping list
- 1 stick celery shopping list
- 8 oz. prawns shopping list
- 8 oz. bean sprouts shopping list
- Sauce: shopping list
- 1 cup water shopping list
- 1 tbsp. cornstarch shopping list
- 2 chicken stock cubes shopping list
- 1 tsp. sugar shopping list
- 2 tsp. soya sauce shopping list
- salt shopping list
How to make it
- Sauce:
- Blend water and cornstarch until smooth, add crumbled stock cubes, sugar, soya sauce and salt. Stir until sauce boils and thickens.
- Put eggs in bowl. Season with salt and pepper. Beat only until eggs are slightly frothy.
- Heat small amount of oil in pan. Gently saute finely chopped mushrooms one minute. Remove from pan, drain, add to beaten eggs. Add finely chopped shallots, finely chopped celery, shelled and chopped prawns and bean sprouts. Mix well.
- Add enough oil to medium-sized fry pan just to cover base. When oil is hot, pour omelet mixture into pan using cup to make four small omelets.
- When mixture is firm on one side, separate omelets with spatula and turn, cooking the other side. Stak on a warm plate while cooking remainder of omelets; keep warm. To serve, stack two omelets one on top of the other. Spoon sauce over.
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This looks great and hubby will love this! Thanks for sharing
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Yummy, looks delicious! I don't think I have ever tried this.
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