How to Cook Appetizing Assam Prawns

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Assam Prawns. Tamarind prawn or assam prawn is a Malaysian-Nyonya recipe, one that I grew up eating as my late mother made a killer dish of assam prawn, or "assam heh/亚参虾" (in Hokkien dialect). Assam prawns are sweet & spicy at the same time, and are an asian favourite to cook and share with your Immensely delicious and surprisingly straightforward to cook, these assam prawns really rely. If you like the addictive taste of assam, then you're in for a treat.

Assam Prawns Add the prawns and stir well to mix. Assam Prawns is a popular Malaysian dish which is not difficult to whip up. The two main ingredients in this dish are the prawns and tamarind paste or what we call, 'assam'. You can cook Assam Prawns using 11 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Assam Prawns

  1. You need 500 g of medium large prawns.
  2. Prepare of Marinade.
  3. It's 80 g of assam (tamarind) pulp.
  4. You need 1 tablespoon of dark soy sauce.
  5. You need 1 tablespoon of sugar.
  6. It's 1/2 tablespoon of salt.
  7. Prepare of Wok.
  8. You need 1/2 cup of oil.
  9. Prepare 1 tablespoon of sugar.
  10. You need 1 stalk of daun limau purut (kaffir lime leaves).
  11. It's 1/2 cup of water.

Assam prawns is a typical Peranakan dish which is delicious and appetizing. These tamarind prawns are cooked in a sour and sweet sauce until it is reduced to create a caramelized gravy. Extract the juice from the tamarind by pressing the pulp. Remove the heads of the prawns.

Assam Prawns step by step

  1. Wash and marinate prawns for at least 2 hours in fridge..
  2. Heat oil in wok. Add in prawns and marinade, then sugar and sliced daun limau purut. Add water for a bit of gravy. Fry until fragrant and slightly burnt..
  3. Serve with rice or fried bee hoon. Also good just on its own..

Assam Prawn - Fried prawns in Tamarind sauce. One of my Mum's favourite way of making them is fried Assam Prawns. For my siblings and me, prawns cooked this way is top on the list. Spicy assam prawnsIt seems quite a while that I have not cooked prawns, one of my top favourites. I had some big prawns when on holiday back in Malaysia recently.