How to make Vietnamese Prawns -
Ground prawn mixture wrapped around sugarcane sticks and grilled and served with a sweet and spicy sauce
This recipe is from FoodFood TV channel & has featured on Sanjeev Kapoor Kitchen.
Main Ingredients : Prawns (प्रॉन/कोलम्बी/झींगा), Salt (नमक)
Cuisine : Vietnamese
Course : Snacks and Starters
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Vietnamese Prawns Recipe Card
The food of the northern Vietnam is heavily influenced by China with its stir-fries and noodle-based soups. As you proceed south, there is more flavour, akin to Thailand and Cambodia. The tropical climate down south also sustains more rice paddies, coconut groves, jackfruit trees, and herb gardens. The food in southern Vietnam is typically sweeter. French colonization – from 18th century to 1954 - had its influence on Vietnamese food. It definitely left a lasting effect on the country and its people.
Prep Time : 26-30 minutes
Cook time : 6-10 minutes
Serve : 4
Level Of Cooking : Moderate
Taste : Mild
Ingredients for Vietnamese Prawns Recipe
Prawns shelled and deveined 1 cup
Salt to taste
Sugar 1/2 teaspoon
Rice flour 1 1/2 tablespoons
Egg white 1/2
Sugarcane peeled and cut into 4-inch sticks 8
White and black sesame seeds 1/4 cup
Oil for grilling
Fresh coriander sprig to garnish
For Sauce
Garlic cloves 3
Red bird’s eye chillies 3
Fish sauce 2 tablespoons
Brown sugar 1 1/2 teaspoons
Lemon juice extracted 1
Method
Step 1
Put prawns, salt, sugar, rice flour and egg white in a blender jar and blend to a fine paste.
Step 2
Dampen your palms with water, take a portion of prawn mixture and wrap it tightly around a sugarcane stick. Use up the rest of the prawn mixture similarly.
Step 3
Spread sesame seeds on a plate. Coat some of the prepared prawn sticks in the sesame seeds and leave the remaining as it is.
Step 4
Heat oil on an induction grill. Place the prawn sticks and grill, rotating the sticks, till they are cooked and grill marks appear all around.
Step 5
To make sauce, finely chop garlic cloves and bird’s eye chillies and put both into a bowl. Add fish sauce and brown sugar and mix well. Squeeze the juice of ½ lemon into the bowl and mix well.
Step 6
Arrange the grilled prawn sticks on a serving platter, garnish with coriander sprig and serve immediately with the sauce.
Nutrition Info
Calories : 840 Kcal
Carbohydrates : 59.7 gm
Protein : 51.1 gm
Fat : 44.1 gm
Other : Zinc- 6.3mg
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