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Preparation Time: 35 mins (incl 20 minutes marinating time)
Cooking Time: 10 mins
Difficulty: Easy
Serves: 2

Crispy Prawns

Ingredients

600g prawns
2 tablespoon fish sauce
flour
oil

Method

1. Deshell and devein the prawns.
2. Place in a bowl and marinate for 20 minutes in the fish sauce.
3. Coat each prawn in the flour.
4. Heat the oil in a deep frying pan and when hot deep fry the prawns until golden brown.
5. Serve immediately on thier own, or over rice or noodles.

Result

This has to be the simplest dish around. As a prawn lover I really like this dish.

Preparation Time: 25 mins
Cooking Time: 20 mins
Difficulty: Medium
Serves: 2

Red Curry Prawns

Ingredients

1 kg peeled & deveined prawns
1/2 cup coconut cream
2 1/2 cups coconut milk
2 spring onions, chopped
2 stems lemon grass chopped
2 tbsp red curry paste
2 tbsp fish sauce
1 tbsp brown sugar
2 small red chillis

Method

1. Heat the coconut cream in a pan, along with the spring onion, lemongrass and curry paste and stir over a heat for 5 minutes.
2. Add the coconut milk, bring to the boil and add the prawns simmer for about 10 minutes.
3. Season with fish sauce and sugar, and add a little of the chilli to taste.
4. Serve over jasmine or basmati rice

Result

This dish has a really nice subtle curry taste and is not too hot.

Preparation Time: 20 mins
Cooking Time: 20 mins
Difficulty: Easy
Serves: 4

Spicy Seafood Soup

Ingredients

200g Prawns
200g Shrimps
200g Kingklip fillets, skinned(or other white fish)
3 tbsp salt
2 lemon grass stalks
1.2 litres stock (fish or chicken)
1 fresh red chilli, seeded and chopped
1/4 tsp five spice powder
2 sping onions

Method

1. Peel the prawns, and skin the fish, remove the digestive cord from the prawns.
2. Crush the lemongrass stalks, and cut into short strips.
3. Bring the stock to a simmer in a large pot and add the lemongrass. Lower the heat to low and cook for 10 minutes.
4. Remove the lemongrass from the stock and discard. Add the chilli, salt and pepper, five spice powder, prawns, shrimp and fish to the stock.
5. Cover and cook on low for a further five minutes, then remove from the heat and stand for a further five minutes.
6. Stir in the chopped spring onions, and serve immediately.

Result

Very, very nice, give it a try… :-)

Preparation Time: 20 mins
Cooking Time: 30 mins
Difficulty: Easy
Serves: 2

Chilli Tomato Soup

Ingredients

500g Ripe or Canned Tomato, skinned
30g butter or margarine
1 onion, chopped
salt
pepper
2 birds eye chillies, or your chilli preference
1 strip of lemon rind
2 cups of chicken stock
1 bay leaf
sugar to taste
cream

Method

1. Melt the butter in a large pan, then add the onion and cook until soft.
2. Add the salt and pepper, the tomato, seeded and chopped chilli, lemon rind, stock and bay leaf.
3. Bring to the boil and simmer for 20 minutes.
4. Add sugar, more salt and pepper to taste.
5. When the soup has cooled (not cold), place in a food processor and blend until reasonably smooth.
6. Reheat and serve with cream.
7. You can add coriander leaves as well for that extra oriental taste.