Whenever my friends come to my house for dinner, they always ask me to make this spicy mantis shrimp. It's so spicy that they stick out their tongue, and they never stop. They are afraid that others will eat it up if they are too late. The appearance of each meal is really not flattering.
My husband and I also love eating it. After eating a few, the hemp and spicy food began to shoot back, gathering it from the walls of the mouth to the tongue... I hurriedly took a sip of cold sour plum juice, which was refreshing and heart-piercing.
The scientific name of Piti Prawns is "Squatcha". It is commonly known as Piti Prawns, Shrimp Rakes, Shrimp Male Camel, Pipa Prawns, Mantis Prawns, and Piti Prawns. It is called 'Climbing Shrimp' in our Jiaodong area.
Pippi shrimp is a kind of seafood food with rich nutrients, fresh meat and tender taste. The meat contains more water, the meat taste is fresh, sweet, tender and smooth, light and soft, and has a special tempting umami taste.
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that seawater shrimp is wet in nature, sweet and salty in taste, and enters the kidney and spleen meridians; shrimp meat has the effects of tonifying kidney and strengthening yang, dredging breast and resisting poison, nourishing blood and consolidating essence, removing blood and detoxifying, replenishing qi and nourishing yang, activating collaterals and relieving pain, and stimulating appetite and phlegm.
Spicy Pippi Shrimp
Recipe Recommendations
- mantis shrimp 2 pounds
- garlic 2 head
- peanut oil appropriate amount
- starch appropriate amount
- sesame oil appropriate amount
- pepper 1 handful
- Weijixian soy sauce appropriate amount
- salt appropriate amount
- sugar appropriate amount
- huadiao wine appropriate amount
Steps for Spicy Pippi Shrimp

1
Fresh pimi shrimp, clean.
2
Cut the shrimp in the middle.
3
Wash the small red peppers and drain the water.
4
Peel and wash the 2 garlic heads and drain the water.
5
Cut garlic into garlic cubes.
6
Cut the small red peppers into small pieces with scissors.
7
Sichuan pepper must be used for pepper.
8
Pour peanut oil into the pan.
9
Add pepper while the oil temperature is not hot.
10
Add chopped red peppers.
11
Put the chopped garlic grains into the pan and saute until fragrant.
12
Pour in the delicious soy sauce, sugar, and Huadiao wine.
13
When the sugar melts, put the pork skin shrimp into the pan and stir fry evenly.
14
Add a little water to the pan, cover the lid and simmer for 10 minutes.
15
Most of the soup is almost ready after being absorbed by the mantis shrimp.
16
Add water to the starch and stir well.
17
Pour the starch water into the pan to thicken.
18
Finally, pour in some sesame oil and stir fry evenly to enhance the fragrance. After frying, plate it.Spicy Pippi Shrimp Make Tips
1. Cut the pipi shrimp from the middle to better taste it. 2. Make sure to use Sichuan pepper pepper. 3. You can also simmer it for 10 minutes without adding water, because the pipi shrimp will simmer a lot of water. 4. Make sure to copy less water to thicken