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Black Pepper Prawns
Spicy Spicy Black Pepper Prawns … Yummy Yummy 黑胡椒虾
The method of cooking this black pepper dish is similar to cooking Singapore’s famous black pepper crabs, just that I can’t eat crabs at the moment (update: because I am on braces, one more year to go) so I substitute with prawns instead :P Plus I haven’t mastered the courage to kill crabs yet. It’s still tasty nevertheless because one can never go too wrong with black pepper, and the de-shelled prawns are easier to eat than crabs (just consoling myself, haha).
Ingredients
(Serves 2)– 8 large prawns (or better known as ‘shrimps’ in other parts of the world)
– 2 stalks of spring onions
– 1 tbsp chopped garlic
– 1/2 tbsp black peppercorn (adjust to your liking)
– 1/2 tsp light soy sauce
– 1/4 tsp dark soy sauce
– 40ml water
– 1/2 tsp brown sugar
– small knob of butterDirections
1. Remove the head and shell of the prawn, leaving only the shell tail intact. De-vein by cutting along the top middle part of the prawns and remove the black veins.
2. Cut the spring onions to 2-inch length, separate thick bottom white stalks from the top green portion.
3. Pound the black peppercorn using mortar and pestle till coarse (not powdery).
4. Melt butter in heated wok, add garlic, crushed peppercorns and thick spring onion stalks and stir fry till garlic is lightly browned.
5. Add water, light soy sauce, dark soy sauce and brown sugar.
6. Add prawns and the rest of the spring onions, stir fry till prawns are cooked. It only takes a few minutes.
Yum Yum
I am submitting my recipe to the Original Recipe event hosted by Lore at Culinarty. Check out others’ recipes around the week of 15th.
The prawns look so delicious!
I have a recipe for Salt and Pepper Shrimp that I love, and this looks just as good … mouthwateringly good.
This is awesome,I can’t buy fresh crabs easily in Switzerland. Great to use prawns instead. thanks for sharing.
your black pepper prawn is calling my name!! yummy!!
Hi beachlover, didn’t know you had another food blog, it looks great :-)
Oh dear, no crabs for a year. That’s sad. :cry:
I don’t dare to kill crabs too. So no home-cooked crabs for me. But a prawn version should satisfy some cravings but the other half don’t like black pepper dishes. :o
wow, such an coincident, the spam message i type in is brad. lol try to do a chili prawn version! like the chili crab. heh
it seems my anti-spam has some form of AI? :P Good idea!
I luv anything that goes with black pepper. It really adds extra flavour to the food. Yummy! Lovely prawns! ;)
Yummy Yummy is right! I love black pepper prawns too!
I love prawns and I love buttery-peppery sauces – I’ll definitely try making these at home. :XO:
Hope u like it when u try out the recipe … and thanks for visiting me :-)
Looks like an elegant, healthy meal! Great photos. Found you of Tastespotting!
Thanks! Glad to find your food blog, everything looks so delicious there! :up: