Who does not eat prawns? Seriously, people L-O-V-E prawns, those big fat ones or the tiny small ones. Even when you're allergic to crustaceans, you rather worry about that later. Right? Just grab some anti histamine or cream from the pharmacy later. Right? You rather eat while scratching your whole body.. hehe, i know my brother in law and friends think so...Well I have a confession. ... I DON'T eat prawns. Not allergic. I don't like prawns. I like them alive in the aquarium, they're beautiful sea creatures, but I just don't eat them. (If you see me out in restaurants - those who sit beside me, are probably those aiming for extra prawns from my plate). Maybe the taste.. it just don't taste good to my liking. I do eat other seafood, I LOVE seafood EXCEPT prawns. Funny huh? Yeah you go ahead and devour the lobster. I'll just grab a small bite really.
But, I love to cook and I think prawns make really cool, impressive meals. This is a recipe from my mum, and, she usually only cook this on more special occasions. Today, there was no special occasion tho, so, how lucky am I to actually have the pleasure of writing about it now! :-)
Fried prawns in tomato sauce
:: Ingredients ::
About 10 large fresh prawns, cut off the spiky head. Leave the head and tail intact and these part adds ALL the prawny flavour to the dish.
1 Big red onion, ringed
1/2 cup of frozen mixed vege
1/2 cup tomato sauce (we used Maggi's)
Some fresh curry leaves
1 tablespoon salt
1 tablespoon sugar
Fry the onions and curry leaves in the wok until soften, then fry the prawns, until they are about half cooked.
Add in the tomato sauce, frozen vege and stir. The juice from the prawn will enhance the tomato sauce flavour, and make it a little less thick which is ok.
Sprinkle the salt and sugar, and have a taste :-)
Bon Apetite!
It is a very, very simple dish, like I said, prawns really do make impressive meals. Just grab those big fresh prawns, and with a simple recipe - a GREAT dish!
5 comments:
I love prawns! Isn't it good when someone cooks and you just take pictures of it? :P
Crikey - it's always good to meet someone else who doesn't like prawns. Like you, I'm not allergic - they just don't do it for me. Great blog, MyF - was passed your link via an online friend and I'll definitely be trying a few recipes (but not this prawn one...) and visiting from time to time.
Take care - and keep bloggin'.
Rantz
Tigerfish - Yup, always a pleasure to snap photos away...
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Rantz - Thanks, glad we 'met' here then! :-) No Prawns for us. Haha..
How can you not like prawns??? Impossible. I love udang and as you can see, you see so many udang on my blog. LOL. But I love seafood overall, but prawn is the easiest ingredients to get here, I would love to eat more fish though, the little ikan in Penang wet market.
Rasa - maybe i have bad experience with prawns... I dont even know how to "process" them! They're so sharp... But, I do love mee udang. hehehe.
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