Skip to main content

Sweet Sour Chilli Garlic Prawns

Ingredients

•1/2 kg de-veined and de-shelled medium sized prawns
•1 tbsp ginger garlic paste
•Juice of 1/2 lime
•1 tsp turmeric powder
•Salt and black salt as per taste
•1 tbsp cornflour powder
•1 tbsp each of honey, tomato sauce and chilli sauce
•1 tsp soya sauce
•Oil for frying
•5-6 garlic pods roughly sliced
•1 medium onion cut into square size

Marination

•Mix all ingredients except honey, tomato sauce, chilli sauce and soya sauce and marinate for 15-30 minutes.

Process

•Shallow fry the prawns for 3-4 mins on each side
•In the same pan, fry the onions and garlic for 3-4 mins and put in the prawns. Toss the mixture well.
•In 1.5 cups of water, mix the honey, tomato sauce, chilli sauce and soya sauce and pour it over the prawn mixture.
•Simmer it for 5-10 mins and increase the flame to have a slightly thicker consistency.
•Remove and serve hot

You can garnish with ginger julienne and green coriander leaves. Also when frying the onions and garlic, you can use green onion/scallions. For sourness, when you increase the flame, you can add 1/2 lemon juice.

Comments

Popular posts from this blog

Dalgona Coffee

Vegetable Chop (Odisha Style)

Sweet and Sour Sticky Crispy Prawns

  16 pieces medium sized prawns Marinade - mix mince of 6 garlic cloves, 4 tbsp maida, 2 tbsp corn flor powder, salt, a pinch of red chilli powder, a pinch of roasted cumin powder in 1/4 cup water. Mix well to a thick consistency. Adjust with water. Mix the prawns in this marinade and rest for 15 mins. Heat oil in a wok for frying. Fry the prawns for 4-5 mins and take it out. In another wok, add 2 tbsp oil. When heated, reduce the flame to medium. Add very finely chopped 1/2 medium sized onion. Saute for 2 mins. Add 1 inch very finely chopped ginger and saute for 1 min. Add garlic mince of 10 cloves. Saute for another 2 mins. Reduce the flame. Add juice of 1 lemon, 3-4 tbsp honey in the mixture and mix well. Fry for another minute or so. Taste and adjust the honey and lemon as per your taste. While this is going on, refry the prawns at high flame for 30 seconds. Add the prawns to the mixture on the wok and mix well so all the yumminess is coated on the prawns. Add 2 tsp crushed bla...