Bamboo Shoots with Surimi

 

Bamboo Shoots with Surimi

When a member of the family is allergic to shrimp, the cook has to resort to other means to pump flavor into vegetables. In this case, bamboo shoots that taste simply wonderful made with shrimp is cooked with surimi or fake crab. Louis Kemp makes a good product using a medley of fish to simulate the taste of shrimp or crab.

Burmese Minced Meat with Pickled Bamboo Shoots

Burmese Minced Meat with
Pickled Bamboo Shoots

Bamboo shoots taste lovely when they are cooked with shrimp, as in Burmese Bamboo Shoots with Tomatoes and Shrimp and Burmese Bamboo Shoots with Green Onions and Shrimp. For those of us who are allergic to shrimp, cooking bamboo shoots with minced meat tastes just as good.

Bamboo shoots are found in Asian grocery markets either soaking in water or sliced and pickled in packages. I prefer the latter because they are always tender and the pickling juices help to season the meat perfectly.

Burmese Bamboo Shoots with Tomatoes & Shrimp

Mum made this preparation with bamboo shoots and shrimp for us when bamboo shoots were in season. It is one of my favourite ways to cook bamboo shoots and brings back so many memories of our childhood in Burma.

Burmese Bamboo Shoots & Shrimp

Serves: 4
Here's one of those recipes that bring back memories of our life in Burma. Fresh bamboo shoots are available in the market, soaking in salted water. Here in Michigan, I found it in an Oriental store, marinated and packaged in packets.  They turned out to be very tender and succulent and pairs really well with green onions and shrimp.