Shrimp chips are one of the important snacks of the 80's and 90's and are very popular. Traditional shrimp skin will use inexpensive pond shrimp, after grinding and fermentation and other processes eventually processed into shrimp powder, and then the starch mixed into it, plus salt, MSG and chili pepper and other seasonings, after a variety of processes can be made shrimp chips. Which is still a lot of vendors for the sake of profit, will use artificial shrimp powder to replace the pond shrimp, not only can simplify the process, reduce costs, and the flavor will not be a big difference. The principle of shrimp flakes expansion is mainly the starch in which after high temperature will begin to denaturation and expansion, the water in which the high temperature into water vapor, filled with the entire starch in the structure. Below we will share with you how to make shrimp chips at home, not only nutritious and shrimp flavor.

I, making shrimp chips. First of all, choose fresh green shrimp, green shrimp, remove the shells, shrimp head and shrimp line, with a cooking machine to reach the puree standby. Then add the appropriate amount of sweet potato starch, here can also use corn starch or tapioca starch instead, salt, sugar, pepper and a little cooking oil. Finally, mix the ingredients well, knead constantly to form a ball, cut into segments. Then boil the pasta in boiling water until it floats, then remove it from the pot and cool it, and put it in a cool and ventilated place to air-dry overnight. The next day, soak in hot water and cut into slices. The shrimp slices are finished. During the process, you can still change the color of the shrimp chips according to your own preferences. You can use spinach juice to make green shrimp chips, dragon fruit to make purple shrimp chips, carrots to make orange shrimp chips, and here is where your imagination comes into play.

Two, deep fry shrimp chips. Here the last choice of corn oil and blended oil, deep-fried shrimp slices out of the fishy flavor is lighter. Pour enough oil in the pot, the oil temperature in the pot reached 120 degrees Celsius, then the shrimp pieces quickly poured into the pot to deep fry, before and after the time as much as possible not more than three seconds, otherwise shrimp pieces once fried old hard, will be very much affected to the taste. In addition to deep-frying, you can also use the oven and air fryer baking shrimp, but also up to the effect of expansion, temperature control at 120 degrees, time control in less than ten seconds.