An creamy and super easy shrimp stir fried with scrambled egg -蛋滑虾仁. This is a 15 minutes quick and healthy stir fry if you happen to have unshelled shrimp and eggs.

This is not a traditional Chinese dish as I use a western way of making buttery scrambled eggs. In traditional Chinese cooking, our chefs use lard to make the the scrambled eggs soft and creamy. In addition to shrimp, char siu  is usually added in this dish. It is not a popular dish outside Guangdong area but I am a big fan of all Cantonese egg dishes including the famous egg foo young. Chefs from Guangdong know how to make the excellent yummy dishes with simplest ingredients.

Eggs are also amazing ingredients in Chinese cuisine. They can be juicy and full of flavor with several tomatoes , can be aromatic with spices and soy sauce , super tender after 12 minutes of steaming and flower like in chicken stock in egg drop soup.

I usually use frozen shrimp directly. If you use unshelled fresh shrimp, I highly suggest freeze them for 30 minutes. Then the meats become quite elastic after cooked.

Ingredients

• 300g shrimp, shelled and deveined
• 5 large eggs (room temperature)
• salt to taste (divided)
• 1/8 teaspoon ground white pepper
• ground black pepper (for garnishing)
• 1 teaspoon sugar
• 1 teaspoon sesame oil
• 2 tablespoons butter, divided
• 2 tablespoons warm water or milk

Steps

Dry the shrimps with kitchen paper and then add pinch of salt, pepper and sesame oil. Set aside for 10-15 minutes.

And then well beaten all the eggs in a large bowl. Stir in warm water, salt, sugar and mix well.

Heat around 1 tablespoon of butter in pan (highly recommend using non-stick pan) and fry the shrimp until pink. It should be very quick. Mix shrimp with egg liquid.

Keep the butter and add another 1 tablespoon of butter in. Pour in egg mixture and let it stay for 6-10 seconds until the mixture starts to bubble up. Then remove from the heat and give a gentle stir to make sure that there is no egg sticky to the bottom of the pan. Keep stirring for around 10 to 15 seconds. Transfer out immediately. Sprinkle some fresh chopped scallion and ground pepper before serving.