#40 Salted Egg Prawn

Salted Egg Prawn & Snow Crabs

Hi guys! I can't really remember if this is a repeated recipe, but I will still just update my blog anyway! Hehe! Amidst my busy schedule and overloading assignments, I need to spare some time for my hobbies too. Thus I decided to cook yesterday. 

I went to Sakura International buffet at Downtown East on Thursday, and so we received complimentary snow crabs. They're pretty much just boiled crabs. Since there were still a few left and we were already too full, I decided to bring home the crabs. But then again, just the crabs alone won't be enough and won't make me feel full, thus I bought a packet of big prawns as well. 

So here's the simple ingredients you need for this recipe

Ingredients

1 cup of evaporated milk 

About 9 big prawns

Some crabs (but optional)

Salt

Pepper

3 Salted eggs 

3 Chilli Padi (finely sliced)

About a handful of curry leaves (without the stems)

1 cup Corn flour

1 cup Plain flour 

1 teaspoon Hao Chi

2 cloves of chopped garlic

2 tablespoons butter

Some oil for frying 

1 tablespoon sugar

Instructions 

So let's begin! First of all, wash the black stuffs off your eggs, and boil them for about 15 minutes or so. When you're done, cut the eggs into halves. So now you should end up with 6 halves of eggs. Use all of the yolk, and take out only 3 egg whites. Mash these eggs together, and put aside. 

Prepare your prawns. Shell off, just leave the tail, and then devein the prawns. Mix in a bowl your plain flour, corn flour and hao chi powder. Wash your prawns, coat with some salt and pepper. After which, dip the wet and seasoned prawns and crabs in the flour mixture. Then fry them all up. Not too long to the extent it would make the prawns dry up and shrink. Put them aside.

Now for the sauce. In a separate wok, melt your butter in there, add in the chilies, curry leaves and garlic. At this point you'll smell the beautiful aroma of the curry leaves. about 1 minute or so, add in the milk and keep stirring. Then add in your mashed salted eggs, and stir well to incorporate the milk and eggs. Last but not least, add in your sugar. Once you think that all the sugar has caramelised, add in the prawns and crabs. Stir well, as the sauce will thicken up due to the cornflour on the prawns/crabs. Let it cook for about 2 minutes or so while continually stirring. Turn off the heat, and you're done! 

Happy trying guys! This think is HEAVENLY!