The easiest way to cook braised prawns

Braised prawns in oil is a well-known dish. You can choose the method of braised prawns according to your taste, but the most important thing in making braised prawns in oil is the spice recipe. If the spice recipe is well done, the braised prawns will be more delicious. The most famous way to cook braised prawns in oil is Qianjiang’s. You can learn several methods of cooking braised prawns introduced in the article.

Braised Prawns Recipe 1

Ingredients required: 500 grams of prawns, 2 spoons of cooking wine, 3 spoons of granulated sugar, a little light soy sauce, appropriate amount of water, 1 spoon of salt, one scallion, two slices of ginger, and 2 drops of sesame oil.

Production steps: 1. Wash and drain the prawns, and use scissors to cut off the shrimp claws (the sharp corners on the shrimp head that can prick people) and the shrimp whiskers.

2. Peel off the shrimp skin after the shrimp head with your hands. In order to make the dish look more beautiful, you can keep the shrimp tails. You can also remove it directly.

3. Lay the shrimps flat on the chopping board, cut along the back and belly of the shrimps, and pick out the black lines with a toothpick.

4. The pan must be heated hot to make the red shrimp oil. When the oil is hot, add the ginger slices and prawns, then use a spatula to gently press the prawn heads to force out the red oil.

5. After the shrimp changes color, add cooking wine along the edge of the pot.

6. Mix salt, sugar, light soy sauce, sesame oil and water to make seasoning. Then pour it into the pot, turn to medium-low heat after it boils, cover and simmer for about 2 minutes.

7. When the soup becomes thick, sprinkle in the scallion segments, stir well and serve.

Tips for extra points:

The soup base must be added when the sauce is first cooked, then chopped up with a knife to allow it to fully blend into the soup and meat, so that the sauce is stringy and flavorful.

Braised Prawns Recipe 2

Ingredients required: 8 prawns, ginger, garlic and shallots, sugar and tomato sauce (or tomatoes), light soy sauce and cooking wine, and salt.

Preparation steps: 1. Cut off the whiskers, claws and mouths of fresh prawns to make them neat and beautiful for easy eating.

2. Cut the back until the end and remove the black line. The cut should not be centered, but slightly off to avoid damaging the black line.

3. Clean and drain the water for later use. Chop ginger and garlic into small pieces (about 1:3), and cut green onions into sections.

4. Pour more oil into the pan and heat it to about 60% to 70% hot. Add the prawns and quickly turn them over. Remove from the pan when they turn red and crispy.

5. Leave a little oil in the pan, add ginger and garlic and stir-fry until fragrant. Use medium heat, add tomato sauce (about 3 teaspoons) or peeled and chopped tomatoes (only about 3 teaspoons), and stir-fry until the oil turns red.

6. Add the prawns, then add a little cooking wine and light soy sauce (not dark soy sauce) along the edge of the pot, then sprinkle in about 3 teaspoons of sugar, and press the prawn brain lightly with a spatula to squeeze out the red juice, stir-fry over high heat, pour in about half a bowl of warm water, bring to a boil over high heat first, then cover and simmer over low heat.

7. After about 1 or 2 minutes, you can open the lid, then add the scallion segments, add salt to taste, and then simmer over high heat until the sauce thickens. After about 20 seconds, when the soup becomes tighter, glossy, and darker in color, you can remove it from the pot.

Braised Prawns Recipe 3

Ingredients required: 1 pound of shrimp, a little onion, ginger, garlic, a little salt, sugar, dark soy sauce, vinegar, and cooking wine.

Production steps: 1. Rinse the shrimps, then cut off the shrimp whiskers, cut open the shrimp backs, and pull out the sand line.

2. Wash the onion, ginger and garlic and cut into slices.

3. Take a deep bowl, put the shrimps in and add chopped green onion and ginger.

4. Add a spoonful of sugar, a spoonful of dark soy sauce, half a spoonful of vinegar, and pour cooking wine until it covers the shrimps. Mix well and marinate for 10 minutes.

5. After the pan is hot, add a little oil. When the oil is 70% hot, take out the shrimps and stir-fry.

6. After both sides of the shrimp turn red, pour in the marinade and simmer for 3 minutes.

7. After the juice is reduced, add salt to taste.