Recipe - Deep-Fried Shrimp Whot Sauce

1 pound Deepfried shrimp
2 Chili peppers
1 Clove garlic
2 sl Fresh ginger root
1 tablespoon Sugar
1 tablespoon Soy souce
1 tablespoon Sherry
One half teaspoon Salt
2 tablespoon Oil

1. Deepfry shrimp as in "Basic Deepfried Shrimp".

2. Mince chili peppers, garlic and ginger root. In a cup, combine sugar,
soy sauce, sherry and salt.

3. Heat remaining oil. Add chili peppers, garlic and ginger root; stirfry
to brown lightly (1 to 2 minutes).

4. Stir in sugarsoy mixture and heat quickly.

5. Stir in deepfried shrimp only to reheat; then serve at once.
VARIATIONS:

1. For the chili peppers, substitute a few drops of Tabasco Sauce and add
in step 5.

2. Omit the chili peppers. Reduce the sugar to 1 teaspoon. In step 1,
deepfry the shrimp only 2 minutes. Return as in step 5 to reheat. Then
stir in One fourth teaspoon crushed red pepper, 1 tablespoon catsup and 1
tablespoon Chinese chili. Serve at once.

From The Thousand Recipe Chinese Cookbook, ISBN 0517658704. Downloaded
from Glen's MM Recipe Archive, http://www.erols.com/hosey.