Stir Fried Prawns: Easy Prawns Recipe

Sea Food

oi-Anwesha

By Anwesha Barari

Thursday, October 13, 2011, 15:47

Stir fried prawns is an really easy prawns recipe. Although name sounds like one of those really fancy dishes you would see on the menu card of an oriental restaurant, stir fried prawns are actually quite simple and quick to make at home. Stir fry recipes are usually quick and this one is a particularly easy stir fry recipe. This is because prawns have a very strong smell but a very delicate flavour. If you overcook them, the flavour is destroyed. This easy prawns recipe takes just about 10 minutes of cooking time.

As this is one of those typically Asian seafood dishes you will find all the aromas and spices of the East in this easy prawns recipe. But apart from being easy, quick and oriental it is most importantly a very healthy prawns recipe that preserves the nutritional value of the prawns and doesn't add extra calories to your body.

Ingredients For Stir Fried Prawns:

1. Prawns-15 to 10 (medium sized pieces)
2. Shallots or baby onions-4 (cut into halves)
3. The stalk of spring onions (chopped into medium pieces)
4. Bell pepper or capsicum-2 (chopped into medium sized pieces)
5. Carrots-2 (chopped into medium sized pieces)
6. Garlic-6 cloves (mashed roughly)
7. Ice berg lettuce or Cabbage leaves
8. Pepper corns-8
9. Ground pepper-1 tablespoon
10. Oregano-1 teaspoon (optional)
11. Dry red chilli flakes-1 tablespoon
12. Olive oil-1 tablespoon
13. Salt as per taste

Procedure For Stir Fried Prawns:

• Marinate the prawns with salt and a hint of olive oil for about ten minutes before you start cooking.
• Meanwhile start chopping the vegetables. You need not chop them finely because the whole point of this dish is to enjoy their taste and health benefits a little raw.
• Heat olive oil in a shallow pan. Heat it just enough to bleed the flavours of the spices because you are actually not supposed to heat olive oil.
• Add the pepper corns and red chilli flakes to it and let it stay for a minute on low flame. Then add the shallots and cook for 2 minutes.
• When the baby onions become translucent add the prawns and the mashed garlic. Cook for 2 minutes on medium flame.
• Now add all the other vegetables and ground pepper (oregano if you like) and stir it for about a minute as it cooks.
• Sprinkle some salt and cover it. Cook on low flame for 5-7 minutes depending on how well you wish to cook the prawns. Stir occasionally for even cooking.
• You need not add water because adding salt will make the prawns release stored water.

You can serve the stir fried prawns in a huge leaf of ice berg lettuce in plate for decoration.