Wednesday, January 18, 2006

Prawns at Home

We bought some live prawns and I mixed them with some salt, sugar, fish sauce, chili, and lemongrass and soaked them for about 10 minutes. After that, I stir fried them on high in the wok until all the liquid was gone and they were a bit dark (that's the color from the sugar) which means they were done. They should be a little bit sweet, a little salty and I think you should squeeze some lemon on the prawns to make it even better. This is a common dish which most Vietnamese can do well.

19 comments:

FooDcrazEE said...

hmmmm...ur gf or wife must be a damn lucky lady. Miss all these food.

Aarya said...

looks soo delicious..it makes my mouth watery, though i just had my breakfast. Nice photo :)

Dr. Deb said...

Wow, these look delicious.

~Deb

Anonymous said...

Awesome dish, I'm sure you just can't get enough of them!

alan said...

Thank you for your visit and your kind words; thank you as well for the recipe! I am just starting to experiment a bit with things I haven't tried, and believe I'll try this one with some shrimp!

alan

Thao said...

Yeh with those prawns, my favourite way to eat them is to cover my rice with the beautiful sauce and just eat it like that! I don't even need the prawns HAHA

Anonymous said...

I just finish my dinner with the exact dish and open your blog and see it here. Make me want more :(

Crystal said...

Yum Yum! I love seafood and those look perfect!

Bar L. said...

YUM! This made me hungry! Thanks for stopping by my blog!

Wendy C. said...

Wonderful!!

FooDcrazEE said...

Tu,

Chuc Mung Nam Moi Em Oi!

I will be away for pre Tet leave. See ya around then.

Cheers !

noob said...

How about naming this blog THE COOKBOOK?

Van Cong Tu said...

Hi,
I know this is a good dish which can be eaten with rice, and I think everyone can make it easily. I willt ry to give you guys more recipes in the future. Happy new Year!!!

Anonymous said...

Prawn is one of my favourite foods, yummy!

My mom cooks indo food while my dad cooks dutch food, me? I just can cook water :)) :D

Anonymous said...

hey, would u post a picture detail for this food? I meant, the ingredients, etc, to capture every step you make? Eh sorry, coz I'll recommend this to my house mates, I am oftenly bored to eat the food I've ever eaten

Van Cong Tu said...

anonymuis : I will send you the picture to yuor email next time when i make it Ok. thanks for your comment.

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maichi said...

I like it.