Chinese Seafood Recipes - Prawns with Mange tout Recipe

Ingredients

• 5 dried Chinese mushrooms

• 225 g/8 oz bean sprouts

• 60 ml/4 tbsp groundnut (peanut) oil

• 5 ml/1 tsp salt

• 2 stalks celery, chopped

• 4 spring onions (scallions), chopped

• 2 cloves garlic, crushed

• 2 slices ginger root, minced

• 60 ml/4 tbsp water

• 15 ml/1 tbsp soy sauce

• 15 ml/1 tbsp rice wine or dry sherry

• 225 g/8 oz mange tout (snow peas)

• 225 g/8 oz peeled prawns

• 15 ml/1 tbsp corn-flour (cornstarch)

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Method:

1. Soak the mushrooms in warm water for 30 minutes then drain. Discard the stalks and slice the caps.

2. Blanch the bean sprouts in boiling water for 5 minutes then drain well. Heat half the oil and fry the salt, celery, spring onions and bean sprouts for 1 minute then remove them from the pan.

3. Heat the remaining oil and fry the garlic and ginger until lightly browned. Add half the water, the soy sauce, wine or sherry, mange tout and prawns, bring to the boil and simmer for 3 minutes.

4. Mix the corn-flour and remaining water to a paste, stir into the pan and simmer, stirring, until the sauce, thickens.

5. Return the vegetables to the pan, simmer until heated through. Serve at once.