Grab Your Chopsticks!

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

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Ingredients

500g prawns
6 spring onions
4 tablespoons sugar
oil for frying
2 cloves garlic
1 tablespoon fish sauce
1 tablespoon lime or lemon juice
1 tablespoon brown sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt

Method

1. Remove the heads and shells from the prawns and devein.
2. In a pan, add 3 tablespoons water and the sugar, and stir over a low heat until the sugar has disolved, then bring to the boil and simmer until the liquid turns golden brown. Be careful not to burn the syrup. Remove from the heat and add 4 tabelspoons of cold water. The liquid will crackle and spit, and will form lumps. Return to the heat until the lumps melt.
3. Heat some oil in a wok and add the prawns, garlic and chopped spring onion. Cook for three minutes or until the prawns are ready.
4. Add the caramel and fish sauce and stir for one minute. Add the remaining ingredients and toss well.

Result

Yummy! But guess what? Prawns are still better just grilled!

Preparation Time: 20 mins
Cooking Time: 15 mins
Difficulty: Easy
Serves: 4

Chilli Prawn Stir Fry

Ingredients

300g Prawns
200g Snow Peas (Mange Tout)
2 Onions, finely chopped
4 cloves garlic
2 lemon grass stalks
3 red chillies, seeded and chopped
2 tsp sugar
1 tbsp fish sauce
1 tbsp rice wine vinegar

Method

1. Peel the prawns and remove the digestive cord from the prawns.
2. Slice the onions thinly, heat oil in a wok or pan. Add the onions, garlic, lemongrass and chillies and stir fry over a medium heat until soft and golden.
3. Add the Snow Peas and stir fry over high heat for 2 minutes, then add the prawns and sugar and stir fry gently for a further 3 minutes.
4. Season with the fish sauce and rice wine vinegar and serve immediately.

Result

Not bad, yet again the prawns are not as good as just plain! But that’s my opinion. Give it a try.