Ketchup Prawns
I simply 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. I love the gravy over my steamed rice too.
Ingredients
(Serves 2)
Credits: Adapted from philliptan’s ketchup prawns- 10 large prawns, shells & veins removed (leaving the tail end intact)
– 1/2 tbsp cooking 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 (retain some chilli seeds if you want spicier)
- 1 small tomato, cut to small chucksDirections
1. Heat oil in wok and stir fry garlic & chilli till fragrant.
2. Add prawns and stir fry till they are almost cooked.
3. Add the ketchup solution and stir evenly until the sauce bubbles. Serve with steamed rice.Note: You can stir in a beaten egg to cook at step 3 if you like.
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I like this dish too! Yours looks better than restaurant :D
Ketchup gets sneaked into cooking alot, eh? I think a splash of Worcestershire would go nice here.
Yummy, I love ketchup prawns that my mum used to cook. Add some onions, perfect! Lovely orange hue. :-)
Yum, I love prawns! Any and every which way :)
I’ve got to try this. The Kids love ketchup! :wink:
This is an authentic home-cooked food :D
they look succulent and tasty! yum!
Oh, yum! I love the idea!
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…
hehe. I wouldnt be able to resist adding chili padi in there. But that looks great!!
A chunk of bread to suck up the juices….and I am a happy camper..
Those prawns look good! I really like simple and tasty prawn dishes as well.
Thanks everyone, I’m blushing like the hue of tomato, haa! :XO:
Nate: Oh dear … prawns are like my fave seafood … I should consume less (in view of cholesterol and my allergy as well) :|
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.
I love prawns/shrimp too, and these look fantastically simple and delicious!
I like prawns, too. And, would like to share with you my prawn recipes. Thanks!
Yum! I know them as shrimp. I thought that the two were different, though. I always learn something when I visit your blog!
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.
Looks delicious… I love ketchup… Cant wait to try this… Thanks for the detailed ingredents and instructions.
OMG, the pictures of the prawns just jumped off my computer! What a beautiful dish and great entry!
E for KC, juhuacha: Thanks n hope u like it! Feel free to give me any feedback ;)
Tom Aarons: Thanks & welcome! :D
MWL: Thanks! Nice blog u have! :up:
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 :P
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 :-)
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!
Thanks for your feedback Josephine … glad to hear your like it :halo: :-)
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) 8)
i love this! its so easy to cook and i’ve done it a few times now. thanks!
Hi Lynn, happy to hear you like it. Thanks! :-)
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. :-)
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!
wow, that’s really creative of you! :up:
this is really simple to cook!
I added beaten egg to the last step and it really looks like chilli crab sauce juz that this is tomato.
Very yummy. Thanks for the great recipie
Hi Wiffy
Once again, thanks for your constant sharing of your recipes. They are pretty easy to follow for a noob like me. I am seldom in the kitchen bec my MIL is in charge ;o).
My girls have requested me to try cooking chilli crab (not to spicy) but I searched your web site and could not locate it. May I know if I could use the above “ketchup-prawns” recipe to subsitute with crab. How much ingredients must I increase?
Please help, thanks!
Felicia
Hi Felicia, I think chilli crab involves a slightly different sauce recipe. I’ll post a recipe if I ever try it out in future :)
Thanks much for your reply. I shall patiently wait ;o).
Felicia