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Sweet and Sour Prawns/Shrimp

Here's how you make Sweet and Sour Prawns/Shrimp
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  • Servings: 3
  • Prep: 30m
  • Cook: 5m
    • The following recipe serves 3 people.

Ingredients

The ingredients are:
  • SAUCE
  • 1 1/2 tablespoons granulated sugar
  • 5 teaspoons soy sauce
  • 3 tablespoons vinegar (Chinese white rice vinegar or cider vinegar)
  • 1 1/4 tablespoons tomato paste
  • 2 tablespoons shaoxing rice wine (or dry sherry or sherry wine)
  • 1 tablespoon cornflour (corn starch)
  • 2 tablespoons water (to mix with cornflour)
  • PRAWNS
  • 1 1/2 tablespoons oil (peanut oil)
  • 3 garlic cloves (finely chopped)
  • 1 piece (2 cm) gingerroot, finely chopped
  • 1 spring onion (finely sliced, original recipe called for 4)
  • 500 grams raw shrimp (prawns, green or raw peeled and deveined, I removed tails)
  • 1 carrot (peeled and julienned)
  • 1/2 red capsicums (bell pepper)
  • 1/2 green capsicum (bell pepper)
  • 2 fresh chilies (I used small red deseeded and julienned)
  • 1 fresh chili (I used small red finely sliced seeds as well)
We recommend you get your ingredients ready before you start cooking. Once you're ready, here are the steps to making this delicious recipe

How to Make

  • Step 1: SAUCE - combine all the sauce ingredients in a jug and set aside.

  • Step 2: Heat a wok over a high heat and add oil and when the wok begins to smoke a little add garlic, ginger, chillies and spring onions tossing with a metal spatula for 20 seconds.

  • Step 3: Add prawns, carrot and capsicum and continue to cook for 1 minutes and then pour in the sauce and simmer for 3 to 5 minutes or until slightly thickens and then serve immediately with steamed or fried rice.

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