I think from some small stages, we can see how deep China's scientific research on food is, for example, the names of dishes. Foreign dishes are usually called what they are made of. For example, black caviar is made of fish eggs, and roast pigs are made of pigs. However, the name of Chinese food is very creative. Sometimes this dish is called whatever it tastes like. For example, the crab family is made of goose eggs and does not put cancer in it, but it has cancer in its name. Today this dish looks like shrimp, so it has shrimp in its name, but it is made of cassava starch. I can't help admiring the imagination of the chefs. The name of this dish is spicy shrimp.
This dish is similar to cold noodles. I think it must be cooked and mixed in food, so I use cassava starch to make shrimp first. This cassava starch can only be made of pea starch, otherwise it is not delicious and cannot be molded.
Prepare 60 grams of pea starch in advance, and then put this cassava starch in a bowl. Add about 150mL of water to the bowl, not too much. After that, mix it. After mixing well, we prepare a pot. Add about a catty of water to the pot, and then heat it to boil. The water is boiling, so everyone pours the starch water from the bowl into the pot. Turn down the heat and simmer slowly, and it will take shape in a moment.
Open the lid and stir while heating, otherwise it will stick to the pot. Look at the appearance of the starch water in the pot and find that the starch water in the pot is getting thicker and more transparent, so you can turn off the fire. At this time, we need to prepare a small pot. Pour a lot of cold water into the basin. The lower the water temperature, the better. Everyone picked up the hot starch water and put a colander between the cold water and the pot. Pour starch water into the colander, so that the starch water discharged from the pore of the colander will solidify into cassava starch strips when it meets water. Take a closer look at this long strip, which is curved, with a big head and a small body, much like a shrimp.
After the starch water is solidified, everyone takes out cassava starch strips with a colander and puts them in an iron basin. In fact, they had already finished eating, just to eat better, and everyone poured some condiments into it. First break the garlic, then cut it into pieces and put it in the pot. Add a proper amount of salt, soy sauce, rice vinegar, monosodium glutamate, sugar, oil pepper and sesame oil to the pot. Then we stir it with chopsticks, and we can eat it after stirring it evenly.
In order to be colorful, you can also sprinkle some coriander leaves on it, which will make the taste stronger. From a distance, it looks like a shrimp in a deep basin. No wonder the ancients called this dish spicy and cold shrimp!