Prawn Recipes

This page contains a great selection of quick easy prawn recipes which will complement any meal.

Prawn Recipes Using Ceasar Salad

Being a commercial fisherman, I get lots of calls all the time from friends and family asking me how to cook certain types of seafood. Shellfish like prawns and crab can be ruined if not prepared properly.

We usually remove the heads from our prawns when we catch them and freeze them head-off. But you can cook them head on or off. It's just cleaner to have the heads off before cooking. I like to use the biggest pot we have. I put in at least 4 quarts of water and get it boiling rapidly. Then I place 25 - 30 large prawns at a time into the boiling water. The prawns will sink to the bottom so I slowly move them around with a wooden spoon while they are cooking.

Once the water starts to boil again, it doesn't take long for the prawns to cook. As they cook, they'll begin to float to the surface and turn a brighter pink color. Once most of them are floating, about 3 minutes or so, they are done. Don't let the boiling water start to foam up.

Once they are done, remove them from the boiling water by pouring them through a strainer, or if you are cooking another batch, use some type of scoop to remove them. It's very important to get them out quickly and cool them down by running cold water over them. If you don't do this, they will continue cooking themselves and will become very soft and mushy.

Once they are cooled down you can then peel them.

Making the Caesar and Prawn Recipes Salad

• 1 - 10 ounce bag or 1 head Romaine salad
• 1 pkg "Et Tu Caesar" salad kit
• 30 - 40 large prawns

Cook prawns and prepare salad according to directions. Pick out 10 -15 of the largest prawns and set them aside. Add the rest of the prawns to the mixed Caesar salad and mix well. Arrange the rest of the prawns on the top of the salad. Open a bottle of your favorite white wine and add garlic bread. This prawn recipes salad mix will make 2 very large dinner salads or 4 - 6 side salads. Enjoy!

Pineapple Prawns and Rice

This prawn recipe was sent to us by Nora from Singapore.

Ingredients:

1/2 pineapple with shell
20 g rice, cooked
5 cloves garlic, chopped
100 g small prawns, with shells removed
3 dried mushrooms, soaked and shredded
3 teaspoons light soy sauce
2 tablespoons fish sauce
1/2 tablespoon pepper
1 teaspoon sugar
1 tablespoon oil

Garnish:

10 shallots, sliced and fried until golden brown
sliced red chili
English parsley

Method:

1. Scoop out the pineapple flesh from its shell and dice it. Reserve the shell for use later.
2. Heat up the oil in a wok and fry the garlic until fragrant.
3. Add prawns, mushrooms and seasonings. Fry until cooked.
4. Add cooked rice and diced pineapple; mix well
5. Serve the pineapple rice in the pineapple shell, garnished with fried shallots, sliced red chili and parsley.

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