Cereal Butter Prawns (Ii)
Minggu, 21 Juni 2009
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Cereal butter prawns is a pop "zi char" dish inwards Singapore together with Malaysia. Prawns are deep-fried, together with then tossed inwards a sandy cereal mix flavoured amongst butter, milk powder, curry leaves, together with chillies. The flavours are potent together with bold. There's a spicy kick. Both cereal together with prawns are really crisp together with aromatic.
Tips for making cereal butter prawns:
🦐 Don't operate oat, ever. Raw oat is thick together with chewy, right? Does it crisp upwards afterward it's fried inwards butter? No, it doesn't. It simply turns into a soggy mess. When y'all run into recipes that operate oat, run!
🦐 What y'all should operate is Nestum cereal, which is genuinely flakes of baked flour amongst a milky fragrance. Nestum comes out of the pocketbook (or tin) crisp, together with it tin dismiss absorb about wet without going soft. Hence, curry leaves fried amongst Nestum cereal are dry out together with crunchy. Likewise, deep-fried prawns that accept a fleck of wet would crisp upwards nicely but don't dry out out.
🦐 Be careful when you're frying the cereal. It burns easily, thus operate depression heat. The wok should move warm, non hot.
🦐 Don't operate pocket-size prawns because they overcook easily. Big ones demand about science to larn them evenly done. Medium size is the easiest.
🦐 To deep-fry medium-sized prawns, operate the maximum oestrus possible on your stove, inwards vegetable stone oil heated to simply smoking. Fry simply once, non twice.
🦐 Go slowly on the bird's gist chilli. Don't operate likewise much or it would overwhelm the other flavours inwards the dish.
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How to brand cereal butter prawns
Step-by-step guide
Prawns are deep-fried, together with then tossed amongst a cereal mix that's crispy, spicy together with incredibly aromatic. The scent comes from Nestum cereal, curry leaves, milk pulverisation together with butter.
INGREDIENTS
Cereal mix
INGREDIENTS
Cereal mix
- ¾ loving cup Nestum cereal, master copy flavour
- ½ tsp salt
- 1½ tsp sugar
- 1½ tbsp milk powder
- 8 medium size prawns, 300 g – trim, devein, wash, dry out thoroughly
- 1 tsp salt
- ½ egg, beaten
- 1½ tbsp patently flour
- vegetable stone oil for deep-frying
- 30 g unsalted butter
- 1 bird's gist chilli, thinly sliced
- 6-10 sprigs curry leaves – rinse, dry out amongst newspaper towels, discard stalks
- Thoroughly stir cereal, salt, saccharide together with milk powder. Set aside.
- Sprinkle prawns amongst salt. Add egg together with mix thoroughly. Sprinkle amongst flour together with mix till coated. Deep-fry inwards simply smoking stone oil over maximum oestrus possible till simply cooked. Drain.
- Heat butter till bubbling together with lightly brown. Add curry leaves together with chilli. Fry over medium oestrus till fragrant.
- Reduce oestrus to low. Add cereal mix. Stir till lightly golden. Curry leaves should crisp upwards every bit excess wet is absorbed past times cereal.
- Add prawns together with toss till good mixed, turning off oestrus every bit cereal turns fully golden brown. Taste together with conform seasoning if necessary. Plate together with serve.
