Pan Fried Prawns 香煎虾

My kids had a change of taste mind and decided they do not want to eat prawns after all. Since I had already bought prawns, I decided to do a quick and simple prawn dish using the Happy Call Pan (to minimise oil splat). You can use your regular pan to do this too.

Ingredients:

• 10 medium Prawns
• 1 teaspoon Chicken Powder
• 1 tablespoon Corn Flour
• a pinch of Sugar
• 1 tablespoon Oil

How to do it:

1. Clean prawns, cut off antenna and pat dry.
2. Marinate with Chicken Powder, sugar and corn flour.
3. Heat oil in pan over low heat.
4. Place prawns in pan and close the pan for 2 minutes
5. Shift the pan so the prawns can get evenly cooked.
6. Open the pan and turn prawns over.
7. Close pan and cook for another 1 to 2 minutes till all prawns are cooked.
8. Removed and serve with desired dipping sauce.

Dipping sparingly with Spiced Salt

Spiced Salt 椒盐

Spiced Salt 椒盐 is yet another handy condiment to have in your kitchen. Sometime back I had a bamboo clams baked on a dish of spiced salt, which I will find time to experiment. It adds aroma to the dish that's baked with it.

I remembered when I was a kid, one dish that's often served during wedding dinner was fried spring chicken and it always came with spiced salt.

It's pretty easy to make it yourself. You can adjust the how spicy by adjusting the amount of pepper you add in. After making it, I like to store it in the salt shaker and use it with french fries. :)

Ingredients:

• 2 teaspoon Sichuan Peppercorn
• 2 teaspoon Ground Black Pepper
• 1 teaspoon Pepper
• 2 tablespoon Salt

How to do it:

1. Add Sichuan Peppercorn to a dry pan.
2. Pan fry it over low fire for 5 minutes till fragrance.
3. Add salt and continue to stir fry for a minute.
4. Add both the ground black pepper and pepper.
5. Stir-fry for another half a minute.
6. Remove and it's ready to be used.

Using the Spiced Salt here with Prawns