Scrambled Egg With Shrimp

"A Chinese restaurant dish provided by Mark Bittman."
 
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Ready In:
20mins
Ingredients:
8
Serves:
4
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ingredients

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directions

  • Devein shrimp if you like; if large, cut into bite-size pieces. Sprinkle with salt and pepper.
  • Put oil or butter in a large skillet, preferably nonstick or cast iron, and turn heat to medium. When hot, add shrimp. Cook, stirring, until shrimp is somewhat pink. Beat eggs in a bowl with soy sauce and sesame oil.
  • Turn heat to medium high and add eggs and scallions. Cook, scraping pan with a rubber spatula. Fold eggs over themselves, breaking up curds. If mixture clumps, remove it from heat and stir, then return to heat.
  • When eggs are creamy, adjust seasoning, garnish if you like and serve immediately.

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Reviews

  1. This isn't quite right. The shrimp (or prawns) and scrambled eggs I've had from the restaurants use a little chicken broth, oyster sauce and some other things. It changes the flavor of the eggs slightly, enough to make it worth ordering out rather than making it at home ala omelets.
     
  2. So good and simple, with Chinese tones. Great, different breakfast!
     
  3. This was soo good! We had it with a vegetable side dish for dinner and LOVED it! Plus I love dishes that are quickly made - so this one is perfect. Thanks for sharing!<br/>Made for CQ 2014
     
  4. Made for the Culinary Quest 2014 - Altho you described this aptly as a 1-dish-meal, I took a different view as I awoke today. I scaled this easy-fix recipe down to 1 serving & enjoyed it for breakfast w/my juice & coffee. I used Icelandic baby shrimp vs a larger size. Man, it was so good & I felt so decadent starting my day w/your recipe. Having had my guilty pleasure alone, I expect I will share it w/Siggi & his brother for our weekly Sat brunch after their walk. Boy will they be impressed! Thx for sharing this recipe w/us. :-)
     
  5. I enjoyed this lovely dish for dinner tonight, along with some naan bread and banana slices. A very tasty and satisfying meal indeed. The flavored scrambled eggs were incredible. Love the subtleness of the sesame oil and the soya sauce, they add a nice layer of flavor to the dish. The shrimp were perfect, flavorful, tender and juicy and paired beautifully with the eggs. Thank you for sharing this recipe which I will enjoy often. Made for Culinary Quest 2014 - China - Suitcase Gourmets.
     
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<style>body { background: url("http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3639/3512121819_f2f1aaf050.jpg?v=0"); background-repeat: repeat-y; }</style> OK, here goes. I live in Athens, Greece. I moved out here many, many years ago from Ottawa, Canada - so I am blessed in having two wonderful heritages! I suffer from compulsive obsessive behaviour with regard to food and my psychiatrist thought it would be a good idea to find a 'society' where many have the same problem and try to find a cure. So far, I've copied a couple of thousand recipes from this site and my psychiatrist has thrown the towel in and refuses to answer the phone when I call. What did I do wrong? Got 3 kids that keep me on the go - 10 and under at this point (2008) - I may not get round to updating this for a few years, so you'll have to do your own maths. I teach English full-time and Greek Cookery part-time. I would like to make the cooking part of it full-time and the English Grammar part of it part-time. That's all for now.
 
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