Gon Jin Ha Look @ Cantonese Pan Fried Prawns 干煎虾碌 - Hee Hee Ha Ha #One

I learnt to make this dish from my tardily tertiary uncle.
Every twelvemonth he volition prepare this dish for us on the outset twenty-four hour period of Chinese New Year's Day. It's been five years since I final had it from him.

Men from my family unit had proficient cooking skills. My blood brother can cook too, just he doesn't make it often. Whenever my grandad steps into the kitchen, all the women solely becomes assistants. Same goes to my cracking granddaddy who was a traditional baker who also roasts his ain java.

I know at that place are many ways to cook this dish, merely this is the fashion that I similar it. Dry, smoky, gluey and fragrant.I in conclusion managed to go it like how my uncle Kok Choong did it. I'1000 happy with this dish.

Sometimes, nosotros may order, merely cook it anyway, in that location's no need to confine oneself, as well as we can ever make novel dishes. Yes, that is truthful, merely at that place are likewise times when nosotros need to set up a criterion to adhere to. Not to tell the measure must be high, just in that location is a sense of taste we want, a fragrance we yearn too a season nosotros miss. It volition exclusively be correct if this dish is simply the manner I had it, to remind me of third uncle, my Sam Sook.

Cantonese Pan Fried Prawns (Kon Jeen Ha Look) 干煎虾碌
Recreated past WendyinKK
Source: Yip Kok Choong

1kg large prawns, the bigger the better : )

2 shallots, finely chopped
3 cloves of garlic, finely chopped
ane ruby-red chilli, finely chopped
ane green chilli, finely chopped
i stalk jump onion, white in addition to light-green separated, too thinly sliced

Gravy
100gm ketchup
20gm premium oyster sauce
1 Tbsp Worcestershire sauce
one tsp carbohydrate

one. Wash together with drip dry the prawns. Trim prawns past snipping off their eyes as well as long legs. Snip the back amongst scissors together with withdraw the intestine. Do non take the shells.
ii. Combine all gravy ingredients inward a bowl as well as prepare aside.
iii. Heat wok until rattling hot together with position in ii Tbsp of fossil oil. Put inward a few prawns in addition to hand the prawns a quick sear on both sides (nigh five- x secs on each side, depending on the intensity of the stove). Dish upward the seared prawns
4. Put inward Tbsp of oil too sear a few more. Repeat the searing until all prawns are seared.
5. With remaining petroleum inward wok (add more than if likewise fiddling, y'all necessitate about 2- iii Tbsp to reach the prawns a prissy coating later), on high heat cook garlic together with shallots until fragrant. Put inwards both chillies, white parts of onion too cook until everything is very fragrant.
6. Return prawns to wok and put inwards prepared gravy. Toss everything to coat together with ready until the gravy coats the prawn well. Put inwards dark-green parts of leap onion. Toss together with dish upward.

*If the kitchen turns smoky... yous've got it all correct!