Main Ingredients:

See below ingredients and instructions of the recipe

Cooking Preparation of the Recipe:

8 King prawns in their shells Sugar
3 Spring onions 1/4 c Fish stock
1 Fresh red chilli, seeded -=OR=-
1 Stalk lemongrass 1/4 c Water
3 tb Vegetable oil 1 ts Cornflour
1 1/2 tb Fish sauce Fresh coriander leaves
White pepper

Slit the prawns along the centre back without removing the shells.
Gently pull away the dark vein and discard. Trim off the green ends
of spring onions and cut the whites in halves lengthwise, then into
2cm (3/4 in.) pieces. Finely chop the chilli and 8cm (3 in.) of the
lower part of the lemongrass stalk.

Heat the oil in a pan or wok and stir-fry the prawns until they change
colour. Add the onions, chilli and lemongrass and stir over high
heat for 1 min. Add the fish sauce, salt, pepper and a pinch of
sugar, then mix stock or water and cornflour and pour into the pan.
Serve at once, garnished with fresh coriander.

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Typed or you by : Sue Rykmans.
Cooking Gourmet Echos 6/94
Submitted By JOELL ABBOTT On 10-24-94

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