Cooking Butterfly Shrimps

This is a recipe of Butterfly Shrimps which is a really great dish for special occasions and special dinners.

You will need:

12 pieces shrimps

3 tbsps all purpose flour

1 egg

1/2 tsp salt

5 tbsps beer

12 pieces bacon cut into two

3 tbsps cornstarch

24 broccoli florets (break apart whole broccolis to make florets)

oil for frying

toothpicks

salt and pepper to taste

First peel shrimps leaving the tail intact.

Slice shrimps lengthwise in the middle still making sure they are connected at the tail. Wrap each part of the halved shrimp with a bacon.

Curl each part around a broccoli and fasten with a toothpick .The objective is to make the shrimps look like a butterfly.

In a separate bowl, mix beer, flour, cornstarch and beaten egg to make a batter.

Dip shrimps in the batter before frying in hot oil.