Seafood Recipes
- Pacific Prawns and Black Soya Beans Recipe
Chinese Seafood
Recipes -
Pacific Prawns and
Black Soya Beans
Ingredients
5-6 frozen Pacific prawns
tiny pinch black pepper
pinch each sugar and salt
good pinch Ve-Tsin
(M.S.G.)
2 tablespoons peanut oil
3 crushed thin slices fresh
ginger
1 crushed clove garlic
2 tablespoons canned black
Soya beans
1/4 pint (U.S. 2/3 cup) chicken stock
1 teaspoon soy sauce
1 level teaspoon corn-flour
1 dessertspoon water
1 onion 'flower'
parsley sprigs
Method:
Halve the shelled
prawns and remove the black intestinal lines. Cut
the prawns diagonally into 1/2-to 3/4-inch pieces.
Sprinkle with the pepper, sugar, salt and Ve-Tsin
and work them well in.
Heat the peanut
oil. Add the ginger and garlic, cook till pale gold
color and then discard. Add the beans and cook for
less than 1/2 minute, tossing and turning them.
Add the prawns
and cook all for 2 minutes, moving them about. Add
the hot stock, soy sauce and corn-flour blended with
the water.
Boil for 1-1 1/2 minutes. Turn into a
suitable heated dish and garnish with the onion
'flower' and parsley.
To make the Onion
'Flowers': Cut four 1 1/2- to
2-inch lengths of firm green spring onion stalks;
cut down one-third way from each end. Drop them into
cold iced water. The ends will spring out into
circular 'flowers'.