![]() ![]() in hae bee hiam or Chinese XO sauce (XO chilli) pounded or blitzed into smaller pieces and cooked with other ingredients for e.g.pounded into a paste (with other ingredients) which is stir-fried till fragrant for example, in Peranakan recipes such as Mee Siam noodles and some curry paste. ![]() It's also used in dumpling fillings in Chinese cuisine.in Thai vermicelli salad, Thai pomelo salad, turkey berry curry or a topping for congee or noodles fried (and perhaps cut) then used to add crunch to food e.g.tossed whole into soups and stews to add umami.in the Korean banchan (side dish) mareunsaeu bokkeum ( 마른새우볶음) left whole and added into stir fries for e.g.(Dried shrimp is a very common ingredient in South East Asia & you need it for most of the recipes, such as Mee Siam and Pad Thai.) How to Useĭried prawns are usually rehydrated by soaking in warm water or hot water (usually for around 20-30 minutes.) After that, they're added to food to bring sweetness and savouriness to the dish. The shorter a time the shrimp has been cooked/ soaked, the harder and chewier it will be.Īlthough it's hard to 100% replicate the sweet, fishy flavor, I'll provide a list of the best substitutes below. (Well unless you are making something like pulut panggang, a Malay snack which calls for a lot of this condiment!) It's a little bit salty, a little sweet and full of umami flavor (very savoury).Ī bit goes a long way as dried shrimps are packed with flavour, so a packet should be able to last you for a while. This was from a supermarket not a wet market so it's not as fresh- you can see how the dried shrimp is more brown than orange Note: do not confuse it with Japanese Sakura Ebi which is tiny shrimp mixed with salt but not dried. Some have their shells on and others have been peeled- Chinese and South East Asian recipes typically use the peeled ones. ![]() Generally, the larger and pinker prawns are more expensive. Different grades come in different sizes and varying shades of colour as well. The drying helps to preserve the shrimp, and they can be kept for quite a long time after processing. Itis also known as xia mi ( 虾米) or hai mi ( 海米) (Chinese name, literally prawn rice/ grain and sea grain), hae bee (in Hokkien), udang kering (Malay- literally prawn dry), tom kho (Vietnamese), kung haeng (กุ้งแห้ง in Thai- literally prawn dry), Dried shrimp is small shrimp (prawn) that has been dried, usually under the sun, till all the water is gone and it has shrunk to a small size. ![]()
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