Free Chinese Recipes

Ingredients

• 12 large Pacific prawns
• 3 slices root ginger
• 2 stalks spring onion
• 45 ml (3 tablespoons) lard (use oil if not available)
• 2 cloves garlic (chopped)
• 5 ml (1 teaspoon) salt
• 30 ml (2 tablespoons) soy sauce
• 30 ml (2 tablespoons) stock
• 30 ml (2 tablespoons) Chinese yellow wine or sherry
• 7 ml (1/2 tablespoon) sugar
• 3 fresh lettuce leaves
• 15 ml (1 tablespoon) sesame oil

serve 8-10

** Free Chinese Recipes **

Method:

1. Clean and remove the feet and tails of the prawns. Rinse them under running water and pat dry. Chop the ginger and spring onions coarsely.

2. Heat the lard in a large frying pan. Add the ginger, garlic and spring onion. Stir them around a few times over a high heat and add the prawns, continue to stir for 1 1/2 minutes.

3. Add the salt, soy sauce, stock, wine, and sugar. Stir and turn the prawns with the seasoning ingredients.

4. In 1 1/2-2 minutes, when the sauce in the pan is about to dry up, sprinkle the mixture with the sesame oil and stir once more. Serve the prawns on a bed of lettuce leaves.

Note: To eat Chinese-style, the diner puts the whole prawn in his mouth; the prawn flesh is instantly stripped from the shell by action of the teeth and tongue, and the shell is spat or pulled out of the mouth. An important part of the flavor is the stripping!