18. Succulent Prawns Cooked With Chilli And Tomato Sauce

Wanted to cook turmeric prawn at BIL’s house but forgot to buy the turmeric powder! My MIL made fun of me =P
Made chilli and tomato sauce prawn instead. Simple yet tasty! Takes 5 minutes to prepare and 10 minutes to cook.

Ingredients: (Serves 4)
20 pieces of big, fresh water prawns
6 shallots
3 cloves of garlic
1cm ginger
2 bird’s eye chillies
6 tbsp chilli sauce
4 tbsp tomato sauce
2 tbsp oil
¼ cup of water
Salt and sugar

Method:

1. Using the scissors, clean the prawns by cutting the legs and the front portion of the head, discarding the eyes the antennas. Put aside
2. Thinly slice the shallots and garlic
3. Peel the ginger
4. Lightly crush bird’s eye chillies with a pestle
5. In a wok, heat 2 tbsp oil under medium heat
6. Sauté the shallots, garlic, ginger and chillies until they brown
7. Pour the chilli and tomato sauce. Let them simmer for 3 minutes and add the water
8. Add prawns into the sauce and stir well for 2 minutes
9. Add salt and sugar to taste
10. Keep stirring until the prawns turn to a pink colour (denoting that it’s cooked)
11. Serve with white rice ;)