Fried shrimp is a seafood dish consisting of shrimp that is battered or breaded and then deep-fried or pan-fried. It is served in various cuisines around the world. The dish can be prepared using different coatings, such as seasoned flour, cornmeal, panko, or tempura batter.

Popcorn shrimp

Popcorn shrimp is the name of several small shrimp

fritter A fritter is a portion of meat, seafood, fruit, vegetables, or other ingredients which have been Batter (cooking), battered or breading, breaded, or just a portion of dough without further ingredients, that is deep-frying, deep-fried. Fritters ar ...

s. Cajun popcorn is a similar dish of peeled

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-tail fritters rich of spices, * pp281–283: Cajun popcorn with sherry wine sauce * pp283–284: Coconut beer shrimp with sweet and tangy dipping sauce where shrimps could also be used as a substitute for crayfish.

Coconut shrimp

Crunchy varieties of coconut shrimp dishes are prepared with peeled shrimps dipped in batter, coated with grated coconut, and deep-fried.

Internationally

Japan

There are two popular deep-fried prawn dishes in Japan, ''ebi tempura'' and ''ebi furai''. The difference is that tempura is never breaded, while

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deep-fries are called '' furais''. Prawn cookings in Japan typically employ a straightening technique, by making several incisions on its belly side, then bend the prawn backwards to form straight prawns which they consider more appealing.Light version ''tendon'' with regular sauce: * (excerpt re-arranged for comparison): Sauce: Dashi sources, water 200 mL, soy sauce 40 mL, mirin 40 mL, sugar 1 tsp. Boil water, add seasonings, soon remove from heat.

Ebi tempura

or ''ebiten'' is

tempura is a typical Japanese dish that usually consists of seafood and vegetables that have been coated in a thin batter and deep-fried. Tempura originated in the 16th century, when Portuguese Jesuits brought the Western-style cooking method of ...

of prawn, with a light fluffy coat. It is served as a main dish, with soy-based dipping sauce * (excerpt re-arranged for comparison): Sauce: Dashi 120 mL, usukuchi soy sauce 20 mL, mirin 20 mL. Microwave them for 1–2 minutes or salt. It can also be made into other dishes such as: * Over noodles: ''

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'' and ''tempura

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'', but dishes with these names not necessarily contain prawns. They may be tempura of other ingredients. * On a bowl of

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: ''tendon'' (''tempura

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''). In one version, the tempura is dipped in a sauce before serving. This sauce is considerably thick and sweeterHeavy version ''tendon'': * (rough translation): Sauce (bulk):

Dashi is a family of stocks used in Japanese cuisine. ''Dashi'' forms the base for miso soup, clear broth soup, noodle broth soup, and many simmering liquids to accentuate the savory flavor known as umami. ''Dashi'' is also mixed into the flour b ...

300 mL, soy sauce 300 mL,

mirin is a type of rice wine and a common ingredient in Japanese cuisine, Japanese cooking. It is similar to sake but with a lower alcohol (drug), alcohol content and higher sugar content. The sugar content is a complex carbohydrate that forms natur ...

300 mL, agedama 100 g. Simmer all for 40 minutes until liquid is reduced to half. Blend-in agedama . than regular tempura dipping sauce. * ''

Tenmusu Tenmusu, also spelled as ten-musu, is a dish in Japanese cuisine that consists of a rice ball wrapped with nori that is filled with deep-fried tempura shrimp. Tenmusu is sometimes included as a food in bento boxes. History Tenmusu originated in ...

'': a rice ball snack (''

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'') topped with a shrimp fritter.

Ebi furai

is a breaded and

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prawn dish, of darker and crunchy texture. Traditionally ''

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'' was used, but many stores have started using cheaper '' black tiger shrimp''. It is thought that ''ebi furai'' was created around 1900 along with similar dishes such as ''

tonkatsu is a Japanese dish that consists of a breaded, Deep frying, deep-fried pork cutlet. It involves coating slices of pork with Bread crumbs#Panko, panko (bread crumbs), and then frying them in oil. The two main types are fillet and loin. Tonkatsu ...

'' in the Western food restaurants of

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. ''Ebi furai'' is a popular ingredient of Japanese ''

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'', * An informal online consumer survey performed by

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s in August 2017 with 4000 replies. * ''Ebi furai'' ranked 4th in the most favorite ''bento'' items. * ''Ebi furai'' was not in the 10 most frequently appearing ''bento'' items. and is a common menu item in bentō products. * A keyword search on the SKU list from a user review site. * All major convenience stores in Japan: 7-Eleven, Lawson, FamilyMart, Yamazaki, Ministop, sell products which contain keyword ''Ebi furai bentō''. ''Ebi furai'' became a specialty of the city of

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due to a joke made by a popular Japanese ''

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'' (celebrity)

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in the 1980s. He mocked Nagoya dialect by theorizing that Nagoyans would call ''ebi furai'' as ''ebi furyaa''. Whilst this is false, it made people elsewhere to associate Nagoya with ''"ebi furyaa"''. Restaurants in Nagoya took the opportunity by offering inventions such as dishes actually named ''ebi furyaa'', (menu on the photos says "supersized ebi furiyaa") and a visual hybrid with the pride of Nagoya: the Golden ''shachi''. * direct link to photo of the golden shachihoko

* direct link to photo of ''shachihoko don''

Other Japanese foods

' is breaded and deep-fried

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(paste) of shrimp meat. It differs from ''ebi furai'', which is a whole prawn. Shrimp ''

kakiage , a Japanese cuisine, Japanese dish, is a type of ''tempura''. It is made by Batter (cooking), batter-dipping and deep frying, deep-frying a batch of ingredients such as shrimp bits (or a clump of small-sized shrimp). ''Kakiage'' may use other ...

'' is a kind of tempura, airy, bulky and crunchy, made from a batch of chopped prawns or small whole shrimps, such as

sakura shrimp ''Lucensosergia lucens'' is a species of shrimp popularly known as the sakura shrimp or sakura ebi. The translucent pink shrimp derives its name from ', the Japanese word for the cherry blossom. The species grows to about 4–5cm and lives p ...

Korea

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, fried shrimp is known as ''saeu-twigim'' (). Along with '' ojingeo-twigim'' (fried squid) and other ''

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s'', it is a common

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and a ''

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jip'' (snack bar) item. It is also a common '' anju'' (food accompanying alcoholic drinks) for

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Philippines

Fried shrimp dishes in

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include ''

camaron rebosado ''Camaron rebosado'' is a deep-fried battered shrimp dish in Philippine cuisine. It is usually served with a sweet and sour sauce. It is a common dish in Philippine cuisine. Etymology The term ''camaron rebosado'' comes from the Spanish p ...

'' (battered shrimp), ''

okoy ''Okoy'' or ''ukoy'', are Filipino crispy deep-fried fritters made with glutinous rice batter, unshelled small shrimp, and various vegetables, including calabaza, sweet potato, cassava, mung bean sprouts, scallions and julienned carrots, on ...

'' (battered shrimp pancakes), ''

halabos na hipon ''Halabós'' is a Filipino cooking process consisting of fresh shrimp, crab, or other crustaceans cooked in water and salt. Modern versions of the dish commonly add spices and use carbonated lemon drinks instead of water for a sweeter sauce. ...

'' (fried or boiled shrimp cooked in its own juices or carbonated soda), and '' nilasing na hipon'' (battered shrimp marinated in alcohol), among others. ''Camaron rebosado'' is a deep-fried battered

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typically served with

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. It is made by peeling large shrimp and marinating it in a mixture of

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juice, salt, and

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. It is then coated with a batter made from egg, flour, and

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before deep frying. ''

Okoy ''Okoy'' or ''ukoy'', are Filipino crispy deep-fried fritters made with glutinous rice batter, unshelled small shrimp, and various vegetables, including calabaza, sweet potato, cassava, mung bean sprouts, scallions and julienned carrots, on ...

'' is another native Filipino deep-fried dish that typically use small unshelled shrimp. The batter is uniquely traditionally made from '' galapong'' (ground soaked

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), mixed with

calabaza Calabaza is the generic name in the Spanish language for any type of winter squash. Within an English-language context it specifically refers to the West Indian pumpkin, a winter squash typically grown in the West Indies, tropical America, and t ...

sweet potato The sweet potato or sweetpotato (''Ipomoea batatas'') is a dicotyledonous plant in the morning glory family, Convolvulaceae. Its sizeable, starchy, sweet-tasting tuberous roots are used as a root vegetable, which is a staple food in parts of ...

es, or

cassava ''Manihot esculenta'', common name, commonly called cassava, manioc, or yuca (among numerous regional names), is a woody shrub of the spurge family, Euphorbiaceae, native to South America, from Brazil, Paraguay and parts of the Andes. Although ...

and various vegetables like

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onion An onion (''Allium cepa'' , from Latin ), also known as the bulb onion or common onion, is a vegetable that is the most widely cultivated species of the genus '' Allium''. The shallot is a botanical variety of the onion which was classifie ...

s, and green

papaya The papaya (, ), papaw, () or pawpaw () is the plant species ''Carica papaya'', one of the 21 accepted species in the genus '' Carica'' of the family Caricaceae, and also the name of its fruit. It was first domesticated in Mesoamerica, within ...

. It is deep-fried into flat crispy pancakes and traditionally served with a vinegar-based dipping sauce.

References

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