Title: Crackling Triangles
Categories: Dim sum, Snacks, Chinese
Yield: 34 Snacks

4 oz Spring roll pastry, in
One sheet
6 oz Minced beef
1 ts Soy sauce
1 ts Sugar
2 ts Dry sherry
3 tb Water
2 tb Oil plus oil for
-deep frying
1 tb Grated shallot
2 Cloves garlic, crushed
3 tb Chopped onion
1 ts Chopped red chilli
1 ts Finely grated fresh
-root ginger
1 ts Five spice powder
1 ts Paprika
Salt and pepper

Cut the spring roll sheet into long strips about 3-3.5 cm/1 1/4- lin
wide. Marinate the minced beef with the soy sauce, 2 teaspoon of the
sugar,1 teaspoon of the sherry and 2 tablespoons water for 30
minutes. Heat the 2 tablespoons oil in a wok and saute the shallots,
garlic and onion until fragrant. Add the chilli, ginger’ and beef and
fry until dry, stirring frequently to prevent the meat from burning.
Pour in the remaining sherry, sugar, water, the five spice powder,
paprika and seasoning to taste, then set aside to cool. Place a
generous teaspoonful of the mixture on to a strip of pastry, then
fold over the end corner to enclose the meat in a triangle of dough.
Fold the again from the opposite side then continue folding the dough
over and over until completely enclosed to make a triangular shaped
pasty. Tuck the end in neatly. Continue until all the filling and
pastry is used. Heat the oil for deep frying to 190 c/375 F and deep
fry the triangles until crisp and golden. Drain on absorbent kitchen
paper and serve.

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