Ketchup Prawns

by wiffy on July 28, 2008
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in Recipes, Seafood Stir Fries, Stir Frying

I love love love prawns (or better known as shrimps in some parts of the world.). This dish – combining ketchup, tomatoes and prawns – is such an easy, fuss free and yummy way of cooking prawns.

Ingredients
(Serves 2)

10 large prawns (shrimps), shells & veins removed (I leave the tails intact)
1/2 tbsp vegetable/olive oil
1/2 tbsp chopped garlic
1/4 cup of ketchup, mixed with 25 ml of water
1 chilli, deseeded and cut to long strips (add more if you want it spicier)
1 small tomato, cut to small chucks

Directions

1. Heat oil in wok and fry garlic & chilli till fragrant.
2. Add prawns and fry till they are almost cooked.
3. Add the ketchup solution and stir evenly till the paste bubbles. Serve with warm rice.

Note: You can stir in a beaten egg to cook at step 3 if you like.

Credits: Adapted from philliptan’s ketchup prawns

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1 tigerfish July 28, 2008 at 9:17 pm

I like this dish too! Yours looks better than restaurant

2 Peter July 28, 2008 at 10:19 pm

Ketchup gets sneaked into cooking alot, eh? I think a splash of Worcestershire would go nice here.

3 didally July 28, 2008 at 11:05 pm

Yummy, I love ketchup prawns that my mum used to cook. Add some onions, perfect! Lovely orange hue.

4 Dee July 29, 2008 at 11:24 am

Yum, I love prawns! Any and every which way

5 Ning July 29, 2008 at 3:49 pm

I’ve got to try this. The Kids love ketchup!

6 pablopabla July 29, 2008 at 4:17 pm

This is an authentic home-cooked food

7 rita July 29, 2008 at 4:21 pm

they look succulent and tasty! yum!

8 Sarah July 30, 2008 at 6:01 am

Oh, yum! I love the idea!

9 Nate July 30, 2008 at 6:10 am

We love prawns too but don’t eat it too much nowadays. We feel bad about the environmental damage the shrimp fishing and farming does.

Of course, every now and then, we do a dish that must use prawns. So we feel bad eating it, but not sooo bad…

10 daphne July 30, 2008 at 12:16 pm

hehe. I wouldnt be able to resist adding chili padi in there. But that looks great!!

11 nina July 30, 2008 at 4:51 pm

A chunk of bread to suck up the juices….and I am a happy camper..

12 Kevin July 31, 2008 at 9:34 am

Those prawns look good! I really like simple and tasty prawn dishes as well.

13 wiffy July 31, 2008 at 1:20 pm

Thanks everyone, I’m blushing like the hue of tomato, haa!

Nate: Oh dear … prawns are like my fave seafood … I should consume less (in view of cholesterol and my allergy as well)

14 E for KC August 1, 2008 at 5:53 am

I’ve made shrimp a bunch of ways but never with ketchup–where have I been?! This looks and sounds delicious. I can’t wait to try it.

15 Tom Aarons August 3, 2008 at 10:42 pm

I love prawns/shrimp too, and these look fantastically simple and delicious!

16 My Wok Life August 4, 2008 at 12:52 am

I like prawns, too. And, would like to share with you my prawn recipes. Thanks!

17 Katie August 4, 2008 at 2:11 pm

Yum! I know them as shrimp. I thought that the two were different, though. I always learn something when I visit your blog!

18 Wandering Chopsticks August 4, 2008 at 3:39 pm

This looks great. Ha! Loved how you managed to get two kinds of tomatoes into this month’s challenge. I don’t think anyone’s done a tomato shrimp recipe yet.

19 juhuacha August 5, 2008 at 11:22 pm

Looks delicious… I love ketchup… Cant wait to try this… Thanks for the detailed ingredents and instructions.

20 White On Rice Couple August 6, 2008 at 10:41 pm

OMG, the pictures of the prawns just jumped off my computer! What a beautiful dish and great entry!

21 wiffy August 8, 2008 at 11:02 am

E for KC, juhuacha: Thanks n hope u like it! Feel free to give me any feedback

Tom Aarons: Thanks & welcome!

MWL: Thanks! Nice blog u have!

Katie: In Singapore, we tend to refer to shrimps as the smaller prawns. But I noticed that in the western countries, people refer to what we call ‘prawns’ as shrimps -> confused look

WC: Thanks! Actually I wasn’t sure if ketchup counted as ‘tomato’ in the strictest sense, so I added tomato chunks

WORC: Thanks … you are so kind

22 Josephine August 12, 2008 at 11:18 am

I just tried this recipe on Fri.
Gosh, it’s really nice and I think it tastes like Chilli Crab. Especially with the egg beaten in.
Thanks for the great recipe!

23 wiffy September 12, 2008 at 1:31 am

Thanks for your feedback Josephine … glad to hear your like it

24 Ippo456 June 1, 2009 at 9:41 am

I also cook something similar to this, but no ketchup, more tomatoes (if tomatoes aren’t sweet, add a dash of granulated white or brown sugar), & I use garlic chili.
I substitute the prawns with either fried hard-boiled eggs (cut in half length-wise) or deep fried eggplant (deep fried with tempura batter & egg or you can just use the normal flour & egg batter).
The taste is more spicy & less tangy (because no ketchup)

25 Lynn July 14, 2009 at 11:49 am

i love this! its so easy to cook and i’ve done it a few times now. thanks!

26 wiffy July 14, 2009 at 1:18 pm: Hi Lynn, happy to hear you like it. Thanks!

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27 Mr. Robotic November 9, 2009 at 11:09 pm

Tried the dish just the other day. Thanks for the recipe!

Hope you don’t that I add your link to my newly set up blog so that my friends whom are novice cooks like me can learn too.

28 barffie November 18, 2009 at 8:20 pm

We tried this with McDonald’s garlic chilli packet sauce (we collected uneaten ones), with a little bit of ketchup, Shaoxing wine and fry with garlic… tastes like Chilli Crab sauce!

YUM!