Vietnamese Prawns

Ingredients 

• 1 cup prawns, shelled and deveined
• Salt to taste
• ½ teaspoon sugar
• 1½ tablespoons rice flour
• ½ egg white
• 8 sugarcane stalks, peeled and cut into 4-inch sticks
• ¼ cup white and black sesame seeds
• Oil for grilling 
• Fresh coriander sprig to garnish

Sauce

• 3 garlic cloves
• 3 red bird’s eye chillies
• 2 tablespoons fish sauce
• 1 1/2 teaspoons brown sugar
• 1 lemon juice extracted

Method

1. Put prawns, salt, sugar, rice flour and egg white in a blender jar and blend to a fine paste.
2. Dampen your palms with water, take a portion of the prawn mixture and wrap it tightly around a sugarcane stick. Use up the rest of the prawn mixture similarly.
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.
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.
5. To make the 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.
6. Arrange the grilled prawn sticks on a serving platter, garnish with a coriander sprig and serve immediately with the sauce.

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