Traditional Garlic Prawns Recipe

Traditional Garlic Prawns

This recipe for Traditional Garlic Prawns serves 4 people.

Time required: 25 minutes
(20 minutes to prepare, then cook for 5 minutes)

Ingredients you'll need:

• 60 g butter, cut in 4 even-sized cubes
• 8 cloves of garlic, peeled
• 2 tbsp parsley, chopped, fresh
• 1 cup of oil
• 2 small red chilli, seeded and finely sliced
• 20 medium green king prawns, shelled, tails intact

How to make Traditional Garlic Prawns:

1. Divide oil between 4 fireproof dishes. Add 1 cube of butter to each dish. Prepare and heat barbecue.
2. Remove veins from prawns. Crush 2 cloves of garlic into each dish and divide chilli between 4 dishes. Heat dishes on a barbecue flatplate until butter is very hot and bubbling.
3. Add 5 prawns to each dish and cook for 3-4 minutes or until prawns are pink and cooked through. Sprinkle with parsley. Serve with French bread.

Recipe Notes:

VARIATION - Prawns can be cooked in a pan on a hotplate. Heat oil with butter, garlic and chilli in a medium pan. When bubbling, add all the prawns and cook until pink. Preheat oven to moderately hot 210 degrees celsius. Heat 4 heatproof serving dishes in oven until quite hot. Remove dishes from oven and place 5 prawns in each dish. Spoon some oil into each dish.

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