Have no
idea what to cook for Lunar New Year? How about trying this steamed garlic
prawns recipe which is super simple but looks sophisticated on the table? This is a great LNY celebration cuisine with
beautiful taste of shell-on prawns and to impress your family as they would feel
you cook like a restaurant chef! It only took 5 minutes to steam, however the
most time-consuming and tricky part for me is to remove the digestive vein from
each prawn, totally worthy to clean it one by one as this step just makes the prawns
more appetizing for sure.
Ingredients
-6-8
tiger prawns, shells on.
-1 pack
of glass noodles. (you can also use vermicelli or even silken tofu.)
-Spring
onion or coriander to garnish.
To Prepare
Prawns
-Use kitchen
scissors to cut through the back of prawns. (keep the head and tail.)
-Remove the
digestive vein with a toothpick or knife (do not peel off the shell), vein is
the black string that runs down the back of a prawn which is filled with nasty grit.
Make sure you discard it thoroughly.
-Flat
the prawns on.
To Make Sauce
Mixture
-Finely
chopped garlics, A LOT!
-2 tbsp
finely chopped spring onion whites.
-2 tbsp light
soy sauce.
-1 tbsp
oyster sauce.
-1 tbsp
rice cooking wine.
-1 tbsp
sesame oil.
-1 tbsp
water.
-1 tsp fish
sauce.
-1 tsp
sugar.
-1/4 tsp
white pepper.
-A pinch
of Salt.
Method
-Soak
glass noodles in hot water, once soften, place it on a plate.
-Place
flat-on prawns on the top of glass noodles, pour sauce mixture on the prawns.
-Steam for
5 minutes, once time is up, garnish spring onions or coriander on top.
-Heat 2
tbsp vegetable oil in a pan over medium high heat until it smokes, pour hot oil
over the prawns to sizzle.
-Enjoy!
So why people
eat prawns to celebrate Lunar New Year?
In Taiwanese culture, red is regarded
as the luckiest colour particularly for Lunar New Year celebration, we believe
eating reddish prawns during LNY will bring us good luck and happiness.
