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My Most Popular Chinese Recipes ❤️
Tips, tricks, and recipes for perfect Chinese dishes
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This pan-fried prawns recipe is probably one of the easiest but remarkably delicious recipes for prawns–fresh water prawns pan-fried with soy sauce, cooking wine, and a wee bit of sugar. In Chinese, this dish is called 干烧虾.
Fresh water prawn is a great choice because of the texture of the prawns, and the juicylicious and rich taste in the heads. I love fresh water prawns a lot, the taste is probably second only to live spot prawns in my opinion. The best seafood doesn’t always have to come from the sea…
Of course you can try this recipe with regular shrimp/prawn. They taste as good. I am partial to fresh water prawns because they are such beauty.
Love Prawn? Check out other shrimp/prawn recipes on Rasa Malaysia
- Butter Prawns
- Dragon Well Tea Shrimp (龙井虾仁)
- Fried Shrimp/Prawn Balls with Wonton Skin (炸虾球)
- Steamed Shrimp with Garlic Oil
- Vietnamese Cha Tom (Vietnamese Sugarcane Shrimp)
- Vietnamese Tau Hu Ky (Bean Curd Skin with Shrimp)
- Shrimp Wontons
- Fried Shrimp Wrapped with Spring Roll Skin AKA “Firecracker Shrimp”
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How Many Calories per Serving?
This recipe is only 23 calories per serving.
What to Serve with This Recipe?
Serve this dish with other Malaysian dishes. For a Malaysia meal and easy weeknight dinner, I recommend the following recipes.
Pan-fried Prawns
Ingredients
- 6 fresh water prawns ( or jumbo prawns or big prawns)
- 1 clove garlic (finely chopped)
- 1 teaspoon soy sauce
- 1 teaspoon rice wine or Shaoxing wine
- 1/2 teaspoon sugar
- 1 teaspoon chopped scallions
- 1 teaspoon cooking oil
Instructions
- Heat up a wok with cooking oil. Drop in the chopped garlic and lightly saute till light brown. Add in the fresh water prawns, soy sauce, wine, sugar and do a few quick stirs. Use the wok turner to press each prawn down (pan-frying) for both sides of the prawn. Add in the chopped scallions and serve hot.
Notes
Nutrition
Hi, Bee. I will surely make this dish at home using freshwater prawns. Actually, I like your idea of using freshwater prawns for this dish. I am sure my family will love this dish. I will also share this wonderful blog with my friends for their reference. I really appreciate the efforts you have put in to write this wonderful article. I also like the images that you have used in this article. Thank you.
Are these shell on prawns?
Yes.
It is interesting. But how about cleaning the prawns,removing the intestines, microbiological safety etc. Do we remove the shell while eating.