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Medanese style prawns
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Medanese Prawns with Fermented Soybean

Prep Time10 minutes
Cook Time30 minutes
Total Time40 minutes
Course: Main Course
Cuisine: Asian, Medanese
Keyword: Asian, Prawn, Seafood
Servings: 4 people
Calories: 350kcal
Author: Dolly
Cost: 15

Equipment

  • Wok or Saucepan

Ingredients

  • 500 grams Prawns cleaned and peeled
  • 2 tbsp Fermented Soy Bean
  • 1 box Firm Tofu diced (option - silken tofu)
  • 15 pcs Curly Red Chili sliced diagonally
  • 15 pcs Curly Green Chili sliced diagonally
  • 1 pc Tomato chopped
  • 5 pcs Garlic chopped
  • 6 pcs Shallots
  • 3 tbsp Cooking Oil vegetable
  • 1 cup Frying oil for deep frying
  • 2 tsp Sugar adjust to taste
  • 1 tsp Black Bean Sweet Soy Sauce adjust for colour
  • 200 ml Water
  • 2 tsp Mushroom Stock

Instructions

  • Deep fry the diced tofu until golden brown then set aside
  • Prepare the wok, pour cooking oil, then stir fry garlic and shallots until fragrant
  • Add both curly red chili and green chili, mix well
  • Once everything is half cooked, add tomato, mix well
  • Then add prawns and mushroom stock, stir well
  • Add fermented soybean straightaway so the prawns will get soaked by the flavour
  • Adjust with enough water, add sugar and sweet soy sauce to balance the saltiness from the fermented soybean
  • Lastly, add firm tofu. Stir well and cooked for another 10 minutes to have more depth of flavour