Ingredients

3 taels of prawns

1 bowl of rice

Half onions

2- onions 4 roots

Ginger 8-10 pieces

Garlic 2-4 cloves

Cilantro (optional) 2 stalks

Okra ( Optional) 1 piece

How to make James's Shrimp Shell Fried Rice

Process the shrimp: Unscrew the shrimp heads, peel off the shrimp shells, and pick out the shrimp paste and shrimp lines. Don’t throw away the peeled shrimp heads and shells, they will be useful later. James’s shrimp shell fried rice recipe step 1

Boil shrimp oil: add half of the ginger slices, half of the green onions, and all the shrimps Put the shells into the pot, add salad oil and stir-fry until the shrimp shells turn red. Step 2 of James's Shrimp Shell Fried Rice

Strain out the cooked shrimp oil and set aside. Step 3 of James's Shrimp Shell Fried Rice

Cook the shrimp soup: add just Pour the filtered shrimp shells into the pot again, add water to make the soup, and add salt, white pepper, and five-spice powder to the pot to season. After the soup is boiled, filter out the soup!

Note: This soup will be added to the fried rice later, so you don’t need to add too much water, just enough to cover the shrimp shells. If you accidentally add too much water, you can cook it for a while longer, thicken the shrimp soup, and reduce the amount of water. Step 4 of James's Shrimp Shell Fried Rice

This is the strained shrimp soup. Step 5 of James's Shrimp Shell Fried Rice

In the process of boiling the shrimp soup You can prepare other ingredients by the way: chop the onion into fine pieces, mince the ginger and garlic. Wash the okra and coriander, cut the okra into thin slices, and cut the coriander into small pieces (I forgot to take this photo) Step 6 of James’ shrimp shell fried rice

Restart the pot and add the shrimp oil that has just been cooked Pour in, add chopped onion, minced ginger, and minced garlic, stir twice and add the shrimps together, and stir-fry until the shrimps turn red. Add okra and stir-fry briefly (you can omit this step if you don’t have okra). Step 7 of James’ Shrimp Shell Fried Rice

Add cold rice and shrimp soup and stir-fry together until the rice becomes hot. See It looks moderately dry and wet.

If there is too much shrimp soup, be sure not to pour it all in... Unless you want to eat porridge... sprinkle with chopped coriander and the remaining chopped green onion, mix well and take it out of the pot (if you don't have coriander, you can skip this step)