Sweet and sour chilli prawns

Chinese recipes Sweet and sour chilli prawns recipe

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Date Published:
30/11/2007

All the best ideas sound silly at first and Chinese sweet and sour is no exception - it's so wrong yet so so right! These wonderful sweet and sour prawns prove it.

Serves 4
Ready in 40 minutes

Ingredients

  • 500g large, raw peeled prawns
  • Bunch of spring onions, trimmed
  • 3 tbsp sweet chilli sauce
  • 3 tbsp tomato ketchup
  • 1 tbsp Billington's Golden Caster Sugar
  • 1 tbsp light soy sauce
  • 1 tbsp rice wine vinegar or white wine vinegar
  • 3 tbsp sunflower oil
  • 2.5cm piece of ginger, cut into fine matchsticks
  • 1 tsp cornflour
  • 2 garlic cloves, crushed
  • 1-2 medium-hot red chillies, deseeded and finely chopped
  • 225-275g cherry tomatoes, halved

Method: How to make sweet and sour chilli prawns

1. De-vein the prawns if necessary, by inserting a cocktail stick into their backs about halfway along and hooking out the thin black vein with the tip.

2. Cut the green tops from the spring onions and cut them lengthways into thin shreds. Set aside for a garnish. Thinly slice the white parts of the spring onions on the diagonal. Mix the chilli sauce, ketchup, sugar, soy sauce and vinegar together in a small bowl.

3. Heat half the oil in a wok or large, deep frying pan. Add the ginger and cook for 30 seconds, then add the prawns and stir-fry for 2 minutes or until the prawns are just cooked through. Transfer them to a plate.

4. Mix the cornflour with 1 tablespoon of cold water. Return the wok or pan to the heat and add the remaining oil and the garlic and chilli. As soon as they start to sizzle, add the white spring onion slices and cherry tomatoes and stir-fry for 30 seconds. Add the chilli sauce mixture and the cornflour mixture and simmer for a few seconds until thickened and smooth. Return the prawns to the wok with the shredded green spring onion and toss everything together well. Serve with noodles or steamed white rice.

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  1. Made this yesterday and it was so delicious.. I made it again today for all my family to taste!! Was Lovely.. I would advise putting the noodles into the wok.. if you like sauce all over :-)
    Posted by Koryn on 22/05/2009 19:09:23
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  2. made this for dinner tonight and i was really nice tasted and look exactly like sweet and sour. i did make i few alterations to the recipe, i used chicken instead of prawns which i cooked in sesame oil to give it a really nice taste and added yellow peppers and white onions and it worked out really nice and my family loved it. I would suggest not adding tomatoes as they got left by everyone and it did seem like a strange thing to add to sweet and sour. Apart from that, great recipe, i highly recommend it.
    Posted by scarlet on 22/04/2009 19:59:35
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  3. I cooked this last night and it was seriously good. I used a teaspoon of dried chilli flakes instead of the birds eye chillies however, as I didn't have any fresh ones. The flavours of the chilli, garlic and ginger really come through.
    Posted by LeedsGirl on 28/11/2008 12:02:22
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