Name: Sweet and Sour Prawns
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Thailand
Ingredients: 2 teaspoons cornflour, blended with 1 tablespoon water; handful fresh coriander leaves; 2 tablespoons lime juice; 1½ tablespoons tomato paste; 110 g (4 oz) red or green pepper; 450 g (1 lb) raw prawns; 2 teaspoons Shaoxing rice wine or dry sherry; 2 teaspoons salt; 2 teaspoons light soy sauce; 1½ tablespoons fish sauce or light soy sauce; 1 tablespoon coarsely chopped garlic; 1 small onion; 1½ tablespoons groundnut (peanut) oil; 225 g (8 oz) cucumber; 1 tablespoon sugar

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Ken Hom Cooks Thai

By Ken Hom

Published 2001

About

A Chinese classic, you say? Well, yes and no. This is certainly a dish introduced by southern Chinese immigrants into Thailand. But, like other Chinese originals, this one too has been transformed by local spices and flavourings into a Thai speciality.