Sesame shrimp with angel-hair pasta

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“If you love spicy food, you will love this recipe. I could eat it every
single day of my life.”

Ingredients

  • 2 tsp. Oriental sesame oil
  • 3 ribs celery, finely chopped
  • 2 tsp. minced garlic
  • 4 oz. ground pork
  • 4 scallions, chopped
  • 1 1/4 c. chicken stock
  • 3 tbsp. dry sherry
  • 1 tbsp. cornstarch
  • 1 tbsp. soy sauce
  • 1 tbsp. coarsely grated ginger
  • 1/2 tsp. or more hot sesame oil (or sesame oil and Rooster sauce)
  • 12 oz. shrimp, peeled and coarsely chopped chopped cilantro to taste
  • 10 oz. fresh angel-hair pasta, cooked and drained

Directions

  1. Heat Oriental sesame oil in a non-stick pan and saute celery and garlic.
  2. Add pork and two chopped scallions, and cook over medium heat until pork
    has browned.
  3. Add stock to pork mixture.
  4. Mix sherry with cornstarch; stir into pot with soy sauce, ginger and hot
    sesame oil.
  5. Cook, stirring, until mixture begins to thicken.
  6. Stir in shrimp, cooking just until shrimp are cooked through;
  7. mix in remaining scallion and cilantro.
  8. Spoon over cooked pasta.

bon appetite,
Barbara Pruehs

Originally published August 17, 2009 on Fly Anglers Online by Barbara Pruens.