Braised Shrimps in Shells Recipe

Ingredients :
450 g 2 tablespoons 2 tablespoons 1 teaspoon 1/2 tablespoon 4 tablespoons 150 g	Large shrimps in their shells Soy sauce Rice wine or dry sherry Salt Sugar Stock Lard
Method : Trim off the legs and heads of the shrimps but keep the shells and tails on. Heat up the lard, fry the shrimps for about 5 minutes or until golden. Using a slotted spoon, remove the shrimps from the wok and then drain off the excess lard from the wok. Return the shrimps, add rice wine or sherry, soy sauce, stock, sugar and salt. Cook until all the juice is absorbed, Serve either hot or cold.