Sweet and Spicy Prawns 嘻哈大笑 (干煎虾碌)

This prawn dish is sticky and fragrant, one can't help licking the sticky and yummy sauce coated on the prawn. And this prawn dish also a common dish that very often served during Chinese New Year as in Cantonese, the word for prawn is Ha (虾); or in Mandarin, it sounds like 哈, which means laughter and happy, Hi Ha Tai Siew .

Nestum Prawns 麦片虾

This dish is buttery, sweet and savory, and crunchy from the Nestum cereal and fried garlic, who can resist this dish, especially kids love it!

Udang Masak Merah 香辣红番茄虾

This Udang Masak Merah ( Spicy tomato prawns) recipe was featured in Y3K magazine . And now i would like to record this recipe in my blog too.

Deep Fried Almond Prawns 香酥杏仁虾

I supposed to make this deep fry prawns during CNY, but keep delaying till now..Anyway never too late to make this, nice aroma from almond flakes and juicy prawns, and dipping with sweet chili sauce, not bad at all.

Longjing Tea Shrimps 龙井虾仁 ~喜气羊羊 2015

When you have Longjing tea 龙井茶, you cook Longjing Tea Shrimps ! ^_^
Longjing tea shrimps is a Chinese famous dish 名菜, is a dish from Zhejiang Hangzhou 浙江杭州.
Chinese also like to serve shrimps or prawns during Chinese New Year as 虾虾 Ha Ha means "Happy".

Grilled prawns with butter and garlic, Basmati Rice with Pomegranate Seeds and Pine nuts 牛油蒜烤虾, 红石榴松子印度香米饭

Don't be scared by the long title of this post, actually these are two simple recipes. Sometime when I getting boring to cook Chinese foods, I like to have this type of grill and simple foods.

Chinese Style Prawn Fritters 炸虾饼

This is one of the snack that I like to buy from those Chinese auntie who selling deep fried stuffs like fried banana, fried sweet potato & etc. It is similar to Malay's cucur udang. A thin batter swirl on a Chinese ladle, place few fresh prawns on top then deep fry it. It is best to enjoy by dipping into chili sauce.

Sambal Udang Petai ( Sambal Prawns with Stink beans) 香辣臭豆虾



Petai (stink bean) is one of my favourite bean, especially cooked with sambal prawn, super yummy! And this bean has very good health benefits, read here to understand more.
Usually I like to cook Petai with sweet sambal tumis , it is very quick to use this sweet sambal tumis to cook a plate of yummy Sambal Udang Petai. But sometime when I run out of sweet sambal tumis and have yet to cook a new batch. I will cook from the scratch. I would like to share with you few tips to cook a nice and yummy Sambal Udang Petai here.

Prawn Masala Curry 香浓干咖喱虾



I was so happy finally able to cook this prawn curry that the taste very close to a dried prawn curry we tried in a restaurant last year. In fact, my hubby said my version is more tasty !!

Deep fried Spring Roll Prawns 炸虾春卷

Made this deep fried spring roll prawns the other day. I got the idea from a cooking show of placing a coriander leaf when wrapping the prawns with spring roll wrapper, you can see a hidden leaf after deep fried, look pretty!

Portuguese Prawns 葡汁炒明虾, yuzu giveaway winners

Today i made another batch of pickled mustard green (Kiam Chai) because the price of mustard green is so so cheap RM 1/kg (last time i bought RM 2/kg)..So if you have not tried this pickle veggie, go to wet market grap some mustard green quickly...i think they are over supply now..And i found homemade Kiam Chai is more sour and less salty if compare to store-bought, especially taste delicious when add into Teochew steamed fish.

Come back to today's post, we tried this Portuguese style of prawns when we celebrated Mother's day in a Chinese restaurant nearby. We were enjoyed so much of this yummy prawn, the sauce was sweet, sour and full of curry aroma. I tried to recall the taste and re-create this dish recently, and it was really good, especially licking the sauce from the shell, yummy!

Ya, i have to say sorry to my silent readers again, because this time Random org still pick two winners from bloggers and they are also my blogger's friend, check it out below.

Chinese steamed prawns with egg white

Seeing my blogger friend Wendy (Table for two or more) this week post about prawn related dishes..I also like to share with you this steamed prawn with egg white..the additional of egg white make the sauce taste silky and smooth..

Deep Fried Prawns with Salted egg yolk

I took four homemade salted eggs out from the fridge after kept it for 10days to making this dish, deep fried prawns coated with salted egg yolk. This dish also can be served in Chinese New Year Re-union dinner..

Prawn dumplings / Har Gow 虾饺

Prawn dumplings / Har Gow is one of the dim sum item that we will not miss if we take dim sum outside. And it is not difficult to prepare Har Gow at home actually.

King of soy sauce prawn, Encore !!

I just realized that i have few dishes have yet to post it up, only so busy posting those baking items, hehehe. Today i would like to re-post this King of soy sauce prawn ( my old post here, poor quality of phone's photo) as this is one of our favourite prawn dish.

Stir-fried butter sauce prawns

This is my kid's favourite prawn dish especially Lucas.

He likes to lick the prawn shells before removing the shells, then dip the peeled prawns with the butter sauce, YUMMY!!

Stir-fried butter sauce prawns
(printable recipe)

500g medium prawns
Enough oil for deep-frying

2tbsp butter
150ml Evaporated milk
5 sprigs curry leaves
3 small chilies, cut into small pieces
5 cloves garlic, chopped

1/2tsp sugar
1/2tsp salt

1. Wash prawns well and drain. Keep shells intact. Season prawns with light soy sauce and pepper and marinate for 30mins.
2. Heat enough oil until hot. Deep-fry prawns until cooked. Remove and drain from oil.
3. Melt butter in a heated wok/pan, add in chopped garlic, curry leaves and chili, stir fry till fragrant.
4. Add in deep-fried prawns and milk, seasoning with salt and sugar, quickly stir to mix with the sauce, turn off the heat (Do not over cooked, not more than 1min).
5. Dish out, serve with rice or Mantou (Chinese bread).

Happy Cooking !!

Salt and Pepper Prawns

My son Lucas love prawn dishes especially butter prawn, but this time I cooked something different-Salt and Pepper prawns for him to try.

Salt and pepper prawns

Ingredients
350g medium large prawns
2 stalks of spring onion
1 red chili, seeded and chopped
3 cloves of garlic, chopped
1 and 1/2 tsp salt or to taste
1 tsp pepper
½ tsp of black pepper
A dash of Chinese five spice powder
1tsp sugar

Marinate prawns with:-
½ tsp light soy sauce
½ tsp pepper
2tbsp of tapioca/ corn flour

1. Trim prawns and season with marinade for about 30mins
2. Heat cooking oil in a wok until hot and deep-fry prawns until cooked (2-3minutes). Remove and drain from oil.
3. In another clean wok, sauté garlic with oil till fragrant, set aside.
4. Combine salt, five spice powder, pepper and dark pepper in a clean wok, fry about 30seconds
5. Return prawns to the wok and add fried garlic, chopped spring onion and chilli. Toss and fry briefly.

He likes this too, but still prefers butter prawn !!

Happy Cooking !!

King of soy sauce prawn

Tasted this delicious prawn at the Palace Restaurant PJ during CNY, unforgettable taste. I tried to cook at home, the taste was finger licking good!!

Recipe:-

1) Heat oil and very quickly fry the prawn about 1 min( color turn red), set aside once done.

2) Use the remaining oil, add in garlic ( a lot) and dried prawn, fry till aroma.

3) Add in the prawns, season with premium soy sauce (xi yao wong) and little sugar, stir-fry and mixed well.

4) Add some spring onion before dish out

5) Served hot.

*** this was a photo took earlier using mobile phone, sorry for poor quality.