Name: Chilli salt prawns
Yield: Feeds four
Cuisine: Hong Kong (China)
Ingredients: 2 red chillies, finely sliced (optional); 2 garlic cloves, crushed; 1 tbsp sea salt; 2 tbsp Chinese rice wine or dry sherry; 1 tbsp grated ginger; 12 medium or 20 small fresh raw prawns

Preparation info

Feeds
four

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Old Food

By Jill Dupleix

Published 1998

About

Fly to Hong Kong, jump on a ferry and choof off to Lamma Island, where you can sit at a seaside seafood restaurant and nibble these wok-tossed prawns coated in chilli salt to your heart’s content. Or just fly to the fish shop, jump into your kitchen, and choof off to the table. Less frequent flyer points, but more fun.

Ingredients

12 medium or 20 small fresh raw prawns
1 tbsp grated ginger
2

Method

Devein prawns by hooking out the black intestinal tract with a thin bamboo skewer, leaving prawns in their shells. Place in a shallow heat-proof bowl with grated ginger and rice wine and rub to coat the shells. Leave for one hour, tossing occasionally.

Transfer bowl to steamer and steam over simmering water for 5 minutes, or until prawn meat turns white. Remove and drain, and dry prawns