Quick Fried Prawns With Mushrooms

Ingredients list for Quick Fried Prawns With Mushrooms

• 16-18 Prawns (medium) cleaned and deveined
• 2-4 soaked Oyster mushrooms dried
• 6-8 Button mushrooms halved
• 2 tablespoons Soy sauce
• 1 tablespoon Oyster sauce
• 1 tablespoon Malt vinegar
• to taste Salt
• ¼ teaspoon Crushed black peppercorns
• 1 tablespoon + for deep frying Oil
• 1 tablespoon Cornflour/ corn starch
• 3-4 Garlic cloves chopped
• 1 inch Ginger chopped
• 3 inch stalk Celery chopped
• 2 Spring onion bulbs sliced
• ½ medium Red capsicum cut into diamonds
• ½ medium Yellow capsicum cut into diamonds
• ½ medium Green capsicum cut into diamonds
• 2 stalks Spring onion greens chopped
• for garnish Thin strips of carrot

Method

1. Put prawns in a mixing bowl, add one tablespoon of soy sauce, one teaspoon malt vinegar, salt and crushed peppercorns and mix well. Set aside for five minutes.
2. Heat oil in a kadai. Add cornflour to the prawns and mix well. Add to the hot oil and deep-fry till golden and crisp. Drain on absorbent paper.
3. To make the sauce, heat oil in a non-stick wok, add garlic, ginger and celery and sauté on high heat till garlic turns golden.
4. Add spring onion bulbs and button mushrooms. Tear oyster mushrooms roughly and add to the wok. Add red, yellow and green capsicums and toss well. Add remaining soy sauce, oyster sauce and remaining malt vinegar.
5. Add prawns and mix everything well. Add spring onion greens, toss quickly and remove from heat.
6. Transfer onto a serving plate, garnish with carrot strips and serve hot.