chilly garlic prawn tempura
Recipe Seafood

Prawn tempura recipe in chilly garlic sauce

This is an easy and attractive recipe to amaze your guests on the dining table and it does not consume much of your time and efforts.The tempura flour is prepared at home and the jumbo prawns are fried and then sauted in a hot and spicy chilly and garlic sauce.It can be served with fried rice or hakka noodles or even with butter naans.
Ingredients

Jumbo prawns (8 to 10)

corn flour (1/4 th cup)

rice flour(1/4 th cup)

refined flour(1/2 cup)

Egg(1)

salt to taste

for the sauce

6 to 7 garlic cloves

4 to 6 red chillies

Tomato ketchup 1 tbsp

Dark Soy sauce 1 tsp

Green chilly 2 finely chopped

 

Preparation

  1. Mix all the flour with salt and egg to form a batter.Add 2 tbsp of ice cold water if the batter is too thick.It should be of pouring  consistency.
  2. Coat the prawns in the batter and deep fry till golden brown.
  3. For the sauce grind garlic and de-seeded red chilies to form a smooth paste.
  4. Heat a tbsp of oil in the pan.
  5. Fry this paste .
  6. Add tomato ketchup and soy sauce.
  7. Saute the prawns in this sauce.
  8. Add finely chopped green chillies.
  9. Check salt.
  10. If you want a gray add 1/2 cup of water with 1 tbsp of cornflour dissolved in this mixture.
  11. Cook covered for 5 to 7 minutes.
  12. Serve with rice or noodles main

 

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chilly garlic prawn tempura

Prawn tempura with hot garlic sauce

Jumbo prawns crispy fried in homemade tempura flour and sautéed in garlic and chili sauce.
Course Appetizer, Side Dish
Cuisine Chinese, Fusion, Japanese
Keyword chinese prawns, party prawn recipes, prawn appetizers, prawns, seafood lovers
Prep Time 5 minutes
Cook Time 15 minutes
Total Time 20 minutes
Servings 4 persons
Author indrani

Ingredients

Ingredients

  • Jumbo prawns 8 to 10
  • corn flour 1/4 th cup
  • rice flour 1/4 th cup
  • refined flour 1/2 cup
  • Egg 1
  • salt to taste
  • for the sauce
  • 6 to 7 garlic cloves
  • 4 to 6 red chillies
  • Tomato ketchup 1 tbsp
  • Dark Soy sauce 1 tsp
  • Green chilly 2 finely chopped

Instructions

Preparation

  1. Mix all the flour with salt and egg to form a batter.Add 2 tbsp of ice cold water if the batter is too thick.It should be of pouring consistency.
  2. Coat the prawns in the batter and deep fry till golden brown.
  3. For the sauce grind garlic and de-seeded red chilies to form a smooth paste.
  4. Heat a tbsp of oil in the pan.
  5. Fry this paste .
  6. Add tomato ketchup and soy sauce.
  7. Saute the prawns in this sauce.
  8. Add finely chopped green chillies.
  9. Check salt.
  10. If you want a gravy add 1/2 cup of water with 1 tbsp of cornflour dissolved in this mixture.
  11. Cook covered for 5 to 7 minutes.
  12. Serve with rice or noodles main

Aboutindrani

Indrani Sen is a teacher,lecturer in Information Technology/Computer Science for the past 12 years. She has authored 4 text books in Information Technology.
She is passionate about cooking and loves to blog about food and travel.This blog is like my baby as I have built it from scratch by myself with little help from colleagues ,friends and of course Google.

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