My family used to prepare this dish whenever we had huge gatherings, and I simply love this. Thanks to my mum, I got hold of the recipe and prepared this with mm. Heh- the original title of this post is “Prawn Balls”. How boring is that! So mm racked a little of her brain and came up with this… 金裹银球. Pretty cool har?

Ingredients:

• 10 quail eggs
• Bread crumbs
• Minced garlic (1 clove)
• 1/2 lb of shrimp
• 2 pinches of corn starch
• 2 pinches of salt
• 1 pinch of pepper

Making:

1. Mince the shrimp into a paste.
2. Add salt, pepper, corn starch and the minced garlic into the paste. Mix well. Set this aside.
3. Boil the quail eggs for about 10 minutes. Peel off the shells.
4. Wrap each egg with the shrimp paste, and shape it into a ball. There should be at least 1/4-inch-thick paste covering each egg.
5. Roll each ball over the bread crumbs.
6. Once all the balls are done, deep-fry all of them in high heat for 7 minutes (or till they turned golden brown).