Appetizer

Tôm Nướng Muối—Salt-Crusted Charred Shrimp with Fragrant Oil & Crispy Garlic Rice

Name: Tôm Nướng Muối—Salt-Crusted Charred Shrimp with Fragrant Oil & Crispy Garlic Rice
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 18 min
Total time: 28 min
Yield: 2 servings
Ingredients: 6 large wild shrimp (16/20 count), head-on, unpeeled; 1 cup kosher salt; 3 tablespoons water; 2 tablespoons egg white; 2 bay leaves; 6 black peppercorns, crushed; For garlic oil: ¼ cup neutral oil, 4 garlic cloves thinly sliced, 1 dried red chili, ½ cup fresh cilantro leaves; For rice cakes: ¾ cup cooked jasmine rice, 2 tablespoons fried shallots, 1 tablespoon fish sauce, 1 egg yolk, 2 tablespoons neutral oil; Fleur de sel and white pepper for finishing; 1 lime, halved

Large shrimp get encased in a salt crust that steams them gently while the exterior becomes charred and caramelized. Cracked open table-side (optional theater), they're perfumed with a burnt-garlic cilantro oil and served alongside crispy garlic rice cakes that echo the caramel notes. This is confident cooking: knowing salt's power to conduct and protect, heat's ability to build flavor through char, and when less is more.

122calper serving 10gprotein 21gcarbs 0gfat 10min prep 18min cook 2serves

✓ Macros from a nutrition database · per serving · developed by The Delicious Kitchen with AI assistance, not independently kitchen-tested · how we calculate this