Dry Chilly Prawn

I generally get the semi-cooked (or cooked) prawns and store them in my freezer. So any time I wish to make prawns, it is hardly any time consuming for me. But then also prawns get cooked faster than any other meat so with less time in hand also you may add a prawn dish to your meal :):)

Some dish may need the heads of the prawns to stay intact, but for this one I really like the prawns to be headless. It is a dry dish, basically tossed with some soya sauce, lots of onions and fresh green chillies!! 

All that you need :

(Serves 2-3)

• Prawn - 1 pound (small / medium sized)

• Onion - 2 large

• Capsicum - 1 large

• Green chillies - about 5

• Soya sauce - 2 Tbsp

• Red hot sauce - 1 Tbsp

• Cooking oil - about 3 Tbsp

• Salt - to taste

How to make it :

• De-head, de-vein, de-tail the prawns and clean them in water properly.

• Once clean, toss the prawns with the soya sauce.

• Heat about 1 Tbsp of oil in a pan.

• Sauté the prawns on medium heat.

• If you are using raw prawns, you will probably need to sauté the prawns (uncovered) for about 10 minutes.

• For me since the prawns were already cooked, I only sautéed them for about 5 minutes. 

• Take out the prawns and keep aside.

• Rinse the same pan with plain water and heat the remaining oil in it.

• Chop the onions into medium square sized pieces.

• Put in the onions and fry them for about 2 minutes (on medium heat).

• Chop the green chillies (add as many chillies that your taste buds can handle) and add them to the onions.

• In another minute add the prawns. Mix well.

• If you have red hot sauce with you, add a Tbsp of it (Else you could add more green chillies).

• Add salt to taste.

• Chop the green pepper into medium square sized pieces and toss them into the pan. 

 

• Mix well on medium heat.

• Switch off in about 2 minutes (we want the pepper to remain crunchy).

Relish it as a starter or as a main dish with some variation of fried rice!!