Cereal Butter Prawns (I)
Minggu, 29 Oktober 2017
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Melt around butter and, when it's bubbling nicely, choose grip of a few sprigs of curry leaves together with rip off the leaves (with style, of course). Toss 'em inward the wok, together amongst a roughly chopped upwards cili padi. Stir vigorously, knocking the spatula against the wok forthwith together with then. (Not certain what the knocking is for but that's what chefs do. Maybe it's a homo thing?)
Butter, curry leaves together with cili padi are all ingredients amongst pretty potent flavours but they complement rather than overwhelm each other. Each stands its ground, silent plant amongst the other ii to create a killer combination loved yesteryear immature together with onetime alike.
The political party of 3 is fantabulous equally it is but why halt there? When the odour of the curry leaves starts drifting circular the kitchen, tip a expert one-half loving cup of cereal into the sizzling butter (with a flourish please). A few to a greater extent than vigorous stirs together with – voila! – there's a pile of golden sand inward the wok. I know many people would happily swallow this crunchy sandy mixture amongst a shovel! It's thence expert it makes fifty-fifty cardboard gustation good. (Not that I've tried, of course. I'll stick to prawns fried inward the shell, give cheers you lot really much.)
I'd e'er idea cereal prawns were made amongst oatmeal, thence my kickoff stab at the recipe was amongst around Quaker instant oats that had been sitting inward a kitchen cabinet, unloved together with untouched. When the oats were mixed amongst melted butter, all I got was a disgusting, soggy lump that tasted downright nasty. Into the bin it went, no hesitation at all, together with the prawns were eaten sans cereal.
Note to self: (1) "麦片" agency cereal flakes; that's why "麦片虾" inward English linguistic communication is cereal prawns; (2) oatmeal is usually referred to equally "麦片" (which isn't incorrect since oat is a cereal) but, strictly speaking, it should survive "燕麦片"; together with (3) I quest to meliorate my Chinese!
The 2nd fourth dimension round, afterwards a fleck of research, I bought a pack of Nestum All Family Cereal. This one, recommended yesteryear many cooks, worked similar a charm. It was super fragrant together with super crispy – a amount success! There were grin faces, finger licking, together with nods of approving all round. YAY!
Did you lot know that Nestum cereal, made yesteryear Nestlé, is 67% wheat flour? The residual of the ingredients are rice flour, sugar, corn together with diverse vitamins. So everyone who eats Nestum cereal, thinking it's expert for his wellness because that's what the ads say, is genuinely eating enriched, baked flour. Except it's sold at most 4 times the cost of regular raw flour. Nestlé is genuinely smart, eh? No wonder it's the biggest nutrient companionship inward the world.13 August 2012 Update
How to build cereal butter prawns
Step-by-step guide
Prawns are deep-fried, thence tossed amongst a cereal mix that's crispy, spicy together with incredibly aromatic. The odour comes from Nestum cereal, curry leaves, milk pulverization together with butter.
INGREDIENTS
Cereal mix
INGREDIENTS
Cereal mix
- ¾ loving cup Nestum cereal, master 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 evidently flour
- vegetable crude oil for deep-frying
- 30 g unsalted butter
- 1 bird's pump chilli, thinly sliced
- 6-10 sprigs curry leaves – rinse, dry out amongst newspaper towels, discard stalks
- Thoroughly stir cereal, salt, carbohydrate 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 inward only smoking crude oil over maximum oestrus possible till only 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 equally excess wet is absorbed yesteryear cereal.
- Add prawns together with toss till good mixed, turning off oestrus equally cereal turns fully golden brown. Taste together with conform seasoning if necessary. Plate together with serve.
