Japanese Cuisine Inspired Loaded Fries
With a blog named like this, a recipe for fries was bound to come up soon or later, right? I didn’t want to kick off with just any ordinary fries recipe, so I decided to go with the so-called Japanese ‘Shaka Shaka Fries’ with Panko battered shrimp and wasabi mayonnaise.
Shaka Shaka Fries (シャカシャカポテト) are just regular fries that come with a paper bag and a sachet of spices. You are supposed to toss the fries and the spices in the paper bag and give them a good shake to cover the fries with the spices. Hence the shaka shaka, referring to the sound of shaking the filled bag.
Equipment
- air fryer
- frying pan
- big mixing bowl
Ingredients
Ingredients for the Japanese Fries
- 400 g store-bought, fresh French fries suitable for the air fryer
- 150 g precooked shrimp
- 4 tbsp dried seaweed flakes
- 1 tbsp sesame seeds
- 1 tbsp soy sauce
- 1 medium egg
- 6 tbsp panko breadcrumbs
- 3 tbsp tbsp flour
- 2 spring onions
- sunflower oil
- ground sea salt
Homemade Wasabi Mayonnaise
- 3 tbsp mayonnaise preferably Kewpie
- wasabi paste to taste
- 1/4 tsp sesame oil optional
Instructions
How to make Japanese Inspired Loaded Fries with Wasabi Mayonnaise
- Fry your fresh french fries in the air fryer according to the package (this will probably take around 12 minutes). Take out your fries at around 6 minutes to toss them around in a bowl and coat them in the dried seaweed flakes, sesame seeds & a bit of salt. Then continue to fry them until they are golden & crispy.
- In the meantime, marinate your shrimp for a couple of minutes in the soy sauce.
- Prepare 3 plates for coating the shrimp, 1 with a beaten egg in the middle, 1 with sifted flour & 1 with the panko.
- Batter your shrimp one by one with the egg, then the flour, then once more with the egg mixture, and lastly with the panko.
- Heat a frying pan with a generous amount of sunflower oil until it is hot and fry the panko battered shrimps until golden.
- Place the fried shrimp on a wire rack or a sheet of kitchen paper to get rid of the excess oil & keep them crispy.
- Combine your mayonnaise, wasabi paste & sesame oil in a small bowl and mix well. Serve with the fries later on.
- Combine all the ingredients on a plate. Start with the fries on the bottom, add a little more seaweed flakes or sesame seeds if needed. Then put the fried shrimp on top.
- Cut your spring onions & sprinkle them on top along with a drizzle of mayonnaise.
- Dig in, itadakimasu!
I tried to get Shaka Shaka Fries at McDonald’s while I was in Japan, but unfortunately, they didn’t have them at the one I went to. I was really forward to them! Later that night however, we got them at the Okawari Bar Crawl in the Kichijōji district in Tokyo. They were absolutely amazing and without a doubt way better than the ones McDonald’s would’ve served us. It also taught me something else though, your Japanese Inspired Loaded fries will go really well with a drink!
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