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Preparing prawns
Preparation info
- Difficulty
Easy
Appears in
By Cheong Liew and Elizabeth Ho
Published 1995
Prawns harvested from the sea are immediately packed in ice. The prawns absorb water from the ice, the quality of which is invariably suspect! For this reason, prawns are marinated in salt to extract this moisture. They are then rinsed under cold, running water.
Ingredients
- salt
- white rice wine
- eggwhite
- corn starch
- peanut oil
Method
Shell, remove heads and devein the prawns by gently pulling the innard sac from the neck of the prawns.
Add a teaspoon of salt and 1 tablespoon water to every 250 g of prawns and mix thoroughly, then rinse and drain and dry the prawns with a cloth or kitchen paper.
If the prawns are large, butterfly by cutting down the backs.
Marinate with a pinch of salt, 20 ml white ri