Recipe: Auspicious Stir-Fried Prawns
Here is a recipe for Chinese New year: Simply delicious and auspicious. If you love big prawns, choose fresh ones from the market. Probably costly but to be auspicious for the Chinese New Year celebration, bargaining is said to be taboo:) Feel fabulous and be happy when you pay or prepare every delicacy for the said ‘family and friends‘ reunion.
Recipe: Stir-Fried Prawns and Tau Foo cake with Romanian Lettuce
! Things we need 🙂 medium or large prawns, spoonfuls glutinous rice powder, sesame oil, crushed garlic, salt to taste, dash of black pepper powder, chopped spring onions, fresh red chilies, deep-frying cooking oil and a slice of lemon.
! Before you cook 🙂
- De-vein the prawns and trim the feelers.
How to remove the prawns intestinal vein. Cut a slit in the back of the prawn and use a tooth pick to remove the intestinal vein.
2. Coat the prawns with the glutinous rice powder or cornflour.
3. Heat the oil at boiling point and deep fry the prawns until prawns is golden brown and crispy.
4. Cut the tau foo cake into strips or cut into shape of your choice and deep fry until crispy.
5. Remove deep-fried stuffs and drain oil using a strainer or clean towel.
6. Choose a beautiful plate and lay with washed fresh Romanian Lettuce. Arrange in such a way that it fits your fried tau foo and fried prawns. Ur creativity is very important here. Fried tau foo arrange together with the lettuce on a serving plate.
7. Set aside deep-fried prawns.
! Cooking tips (:)
- Heat sesame oil into a wok or cooking pan. Fry the crushed garlic until smells fragrant.
- Add your spicy chilies, salt, pepper and briskly add your deep-fried prawns until prawns is fully coated.
- Check the saltness! Add a spoonful of sugar when food is too salty.
- Cut a small piece of lemon and squeeze over;
- sprinkle the chopped spring onions, stir briskly and
- dish out on the serving plate prepared earlier.
- Serve with pride
- Now watch your auspicious dish on display. C
ongratulations
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- Stir-Fried Prawns and Fried Tau Foo cake with Romanian Lettuce is perfectly served on your table.
- Some folks believe:-
Lettuce brings prosperity for the CNY and 1/4 large sq. cake of tau foo provides @ 200 mg of calcium for the day.
- Note: Tau Foo cake can be blanched with hot water and salt; serve.
Beloved followers and friends. I wish you enjoy the dish and may you have Auspicious; Happy Chinese New Year – the year of the water Dragon! Have a prosperous and healthy 2012.
goingfabulous 