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Missouri St. Paul Sandwich

  • Easy
  • 25 min
  • roughly 2 of 4 for cost

herb-fresh · umami-deep Leads with fresh herbs arguing happily on top, savory depth stacked from the pantry’s bass notes.

Ingredients

  • For the egg foo young patty: 3 eggs, 100g bean sprouts, 1 scallion sliced, 50g minced onion, 100g diced cooked pork or shrimp, 1 tsp soy sauce
  • 2 slices white bread
  • Mayonnaise
  • Lettuce, tomato, and dill pickle
  • Oil for frying

Equipment

Deep-fry pot

The skills inside

Sautéing & the shallow fry

Allergen screen

Found: gluten · egg · shellfish · soy

Screened for: gluten, dairy, egg, nuts, peanuts, fish, shellfish, molluscs, soy, sesame, celery, mustard, lupin, alcohol. Not screened: sulphites.

Screened by keyword from the ingredient list, not reviewed by a person; check every label for what the list cannot show.

Method

  1. Beat the eggs and mix with the sprouts, scallion, onion, meat, and soy sauce.
  2. Fry as a thick patty in hot oil, 2-3 min a side, until set and golden. 3 min
  3. Spread mayonnaise on both slices of plain white bread.
  4. Set the hot egg foo young patty on the bread with lettuce, tomato, and pickle.
  5. Close, cut in half, and serve.

How to tell it is going right

This dish has no standard of its own yet. It is judged on the technique it exercises: checked at the pan, while there is still something to be done about it.

Sautéing & the shallow fry 80 recipes

  • Everything sits in a single layer with visible space between the pieces: nothing stacked, nothing touching, or the pan is too small for the quantity.
  • The pieces move freely and keep moving, sliding across the pan rather than sticking and tearing when the pan is worked.
  • Light even browning arrived at quickly: colour on most faces, not the deep crust of a sear and not grey.
  • A thin film of fat with the food glossed by it: no pool left in the pan at the end, and nothing greasy on the fingers or the plate.
  • Cooked through but still firm, having spent only a few minutes in the pan: anything that has gone soft has been in there too long.

Where it goes wrong Too much went in at once, the pan cooled, and the food released its water: what was meant to brown in three minutes stews for ten and comes out grey, slack and wet.

At the Table

The Pour
Albariño
Also Right
Champagne
From the Taps
Pilsner or witbier
Zero-Proof
White grape & tonic

Shellfish sweetness meets acid, salinity, and bubbles, precision instruments for delicate meat.

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