Stir-fried garlic prawns

Name: Stir-fried garlic prawns
Cuisine: Japanese
Ingredients: 10 black peppercorns; 18 fresh coriander roots, chopped; 500 g/1 lb 2 oz large, raw tiger prawns, shelled and deveined; 5 garlic cloves, peeled and chopped; vegetable oil, for frying; 1 large, fresh red chilli, deseeded and finely sliced; a handful of fresh coriander leaves, chopped, to garnish; 1½ tablespoons oyster sauce; 1 tablespoon light soy sauce; ½ teaspoon Demerara or palm sugar; ½ teaspoon Demerara or palm sugar

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Keith Floyd's Thai Food

By Keith Floyd

Published 2006

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Ingredients

1 tablespoon light soy sauce
1½ tablespoons oyster sauce
½

Europe
Asia
Japan
Thailand
Spain
Fish course
Pescatarian

Method

In a small bowl, mix the soy and oyster sauces with the sugar and set aside.
Put the coriander roots, peppercorns and garlic into a small food processor and whiz to a paste.
Stir-fry the paste in a little oil in a wok or heavy-based frying pan for a minute or so, until it releases its fragrance. Add the prawns, sliced chilli and soy sauce mixture and sti