Monday, September 19, 2011

Prawns in Butter Garlic


Just made these yesterday and it turned out awesomely delicious! This recipe is definitely high on the calories because you should totally use a good amount of butter in it (you can use all olive oil to make it slightly healthier) but it's a treat that's completely worth it

Ingredients:
1 kg Prawns de-shelled and de-veined
50 gm butter
1 tbsp Olive oil
3 spring onions chopped fine the white part and green part separated
1 tbsp coriander chopped fine (optional)
2 tsp red chilli powder
4 - 5 cloves garlic chopped
Juice of 2 lemons, plus 1 lemon for garnish
2 tbsp Maida (Flour)
Salt and freshly ground pepper to taste

Method

  • Clean and wash the prawns and marinate them with Salt and half a lemon juice for 15 minutes
  • Take a pan, put the olive oil and butter together in the skillet and heat
  • Add the white of the spring onions and garlic and saute for a few minutes
  • Add the prawns, lemon juice of 1 lemon and sprinkle the flour on top of this
  • Give it a stir, cover and cook on a medium flame. Prawns need hardly any time to cook so this will take maybe 2 - 3 minutes. Be careful you don't overcook the prawns 
  • Open and add the green part of the spring onion, stir for like 20 seconds
  • Add freshly ground pepper, if you want to add more salt you can now
  • Take off the flame, squeeze half a lime on top of this, sprinkle the red chilli powder and garnish with coriander leaves (optional) 

This is especially delicious when you have good fresh quality ingredients and is made hot and fresh at the very last minute.

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