Crispy shrimp  burgers with  a delicious honey sesame sauce are a great change from the usual  fish sandwich.

Crispy Honey Sesame Shrimp Burgers

By Sue Lau | Palatable Pastime

Once again   it  is   time for the #FishFridayFoodies to  get together and share fish & seafood recipes. This month I am hosting  so decided upon  the theme of fish & seafood sandwiches, since it seems a nice food  to have for a meal out on  the patio, especially if you have put a fish fryer out there for warm weather. After all some people simply will not fry fish in the kitchen, thinking it will stink the whole house up.

I had someone pop over after dinner back in the 80’s and as soon  as she stepped  in the door exclaim how good it smelled in my house. Being the late 1980’s I had  potpourri everywhere but when I  sniffed, all I could smell was the grease from cooking catfish.

So I could not figure out if she was being sarcastic.

Not that I am paranoid,  but she didn’t seem to like me much anyway, and was prone to making smarmy fake comments.

But after that it did make me a bit more conscientious about frying odors, so I like keeping a window open if I can (doesn’t help in winter). I do have a stove exhaust, but those things aren’t exactly industrial strength.

It was great when  Bill started brewing and I ran that crap out of the house because of the smell of the  wort. He got a burner for outside, swiped my pressure canner and did his  dirty work on the patio. Later, he’d lost the instructions and bits to the canner and we got a turkey fryer.  I haven’t needed to do  much in the way of pressure canning anyway. I fell back on what Mom did- freeze it  if you can’t water bath can. Hey, it works.

I do love a good fish sandwich. I’d come to enjoy the fish sandwich at Captain D’s in Columbus Mississippi which I tried not long after stopping  in for on-the-road iced tea (car tea for errand running). It’s probably the best I’d had. In later  years, I tried them  elsewhere and  it wasn’t the same so they aren’t all using company product (if theirs even was company product).

The shrimp sandwich idea I came up with here I was thinking of the topper for shrimp toast, which I also made heading up a dim sum party menu  for the UPT class at Columbus AFB. The ladies intended to help me make it, but most were helpless, not knowing  much about Asian appetizers. I did the lion’s share myself. I didn’t mind, as long as I didn’t have to cough for the food bill, since it was a class function and there were a lot of people. I do know how to cook  for a huge crowd. Or did.  That  was years ago. But if it is like riding a bicycle? I’ll do  o.k.

The shrimp  toast I had made minced up the shrimp, and with light seasonings and a little bit of binder, is pressed onto bread triangles and fried as shrimp toast. Have you ever  eaten that? You can sometimes still find it at older Chinese restaurants.

I thought to do similar but press it into panko and fry as burgers, and it works out wonderfully.

The sauce is a bastardized version of stir-fry sauce for sesame shrimp, albeit reduced to a somewhat ketchup-like state. You kind of need it thick for a sandwich and not running off your burger bun.

You could try to bake these but you are on your own- panko doesn’t brown very well in the oven if you have ever tried. It’s almost uniquely suitable for oil frying so just choke the fat grams and do it. Don’t complain to me  about baking these because you have been warned. 😉 They don’t call it a fish fry for nothing. Ha!

Bake your fries. That is  something that actually works.

Don’t forget to check out the collection  on  the blue frog button below the recipe print.

And join me tomorrow for #SoupSwappers when we go meatless. I have a Three-Ingredient Refried Bean Soup I think you  will  love.

~s

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