Baked Panko-Crusted Shrimp with homemade mayonnaise

👨‍🍳 Method

For the Crispy Coating

1. 1
   Preheat the oven to 220°C (430°F) and line a baking sheet with parchment paper.

   Oven

   💡Put things in the oven only once it's reached temperature, after the heating light has gone off: an oven that hasn't reached temperature changes baking times, and the bake burns outside or stays underbaked.
2. 2
   Spread the crumbs on another baking sheet, drizzle the oil over them, mix and toast in the oven for 3–4 minutes, until lightly golden.

   OvenBaking pan
3. 3
   Spread the flour on a flat plate and season with half the salt.

   💡The flour dries the surface, the egg sticks to it and holds whatever comes next. Without the flour, the coating tends to peel off during frying.
4. 4
   Beat the eggs in a wide bowl.

   Bowl

   💡Work with one "dry" hand for the dry coating and one "wet" hand for the egg, so your fingers don't get caked in layers of coating.
5. 5
   On another flat plate, mix the toasted crumbs with the garlic, paprika and rest of the salt.

For the Dipping sauce

1. 6
   Put the egg, mustard, salt and black pepper in the blender jar and blend about half a minute.

   BlenderorStick blenderorFood processor
2. 7
   Add the oil in a thin, slow stream, while the blender is running, until a thick emulsion forms.

   Blender

   💡The thin stream is everything: fat that goes in too fast can't bind, and the sauce breaks. For mayonnaise and hollandaise, if this happens, start with a fresh yolk and slowly add the broken sauce to it; if the sauce is too thick, thin it with a teaspoon of water.
3. 8
   Add the lemon juice and stir. Taste and adjust the seasoning.
4. 9
   In a small bowl, stir together the mayonnaise, sweet chili sauce and lemon juice.

   Bowl

To assemble

1. 10
   Pat the cutlets dry with paper towels.
2. 11
   Pass each cutlet through the breading stations in order, pressing well so the coating sticks.
3. 12
   Arrange in a baking pan and bake 8–10 minutes, without flipping, until the flesh turns pinkish-white and opaque and curls into a C shape.

   Baking panOven

   💡In the oven the coating browns only where there's oil: drizzle or spray oil over the whole surface, and bake on parchment paper, not in a crowded pan.
4. 13
   Serve hot with the sauce.