I like to cook for my friends to show my appreciation of them. @nainaztengra has been a friend of mine on Steemit for awhile and she is very supportive. I have really enjoyed getting to know her better on discord and when I found out that she likes prawns and spicy food, I knew exactly what I would do. I would cook her a dish to say thank you and that I appreciate her friendship. The only problem is that she lives 7000 miles away. So, my next best plan was to cook the meal and make a "Dish Dedication" to her.
The dish is spicy prawn stir fry. These prawns have amazing flavor, especially in the head. The dish gets a fresh dose of aromatics from the ginger, garlic and scallions. I use a lot of these aromatics and they become the vegetable to go with the prawns. The spicy kick comes from the fiery hot fresh red chillies. When the prawn oil mixes with the wine and soy sauce, it makes a soulful sauce. This dish is perfect with steamed rice.
The first step was to get some high quality prawns. I went into NYC and found these wild tiger prawns at the fish market.
Ingredients
- 5 large prawns, leave the head and tail on, but peel and devein the midsection.
- Vegetable oil for frying
- 1/2 cup sliced scallions
- 2 cloves of garlic minced
- 1/2 cup sliced fresh red chillies
- 1/4 cup julienned fresh ginger
- 1/4 cup Shaoxing wine
- 2 tablespoons soy sauce
- 1 pinch of sugar
Method
First we need to fry the prawn heads in oil. We do this because the heads take longer to cook than the meat of the prawns. Plus, when we fry the prawn heads the oil gets infused with delicious prawn flavor. We then use that oil to cook the dish.
- Hold the prawns by the tail and dunk the heads into hot oil for a minute to cook. Then put them onto a plate to cool.
- Heat up two tablespoons of the prawn oil in a sauté pan and then add the ginger, garlic and scallions. Stir fry for 15 seconds.
- Next add the prawns, chilies, wine and sugar. Stir fry this for one minute.
- Turn off the heat and then stir in the soy sauce. You do not want the soy sauce to burn, that is why I add it at the end.
- Plate the dish and enjoy!
Nainaz, I hope that you enjoyed your dish. I certainly did! It was a pleasure to make this dish for you and hopefully one day our families can meet and share a meal together.
Your friend,
Steve
Wowwww, I want to grab it right away. Thank you so so so much for this wonderful dedication. It's such a delight to just see it also and I am sure the taste must be mind blowing.
Have you thought of getting into Master Chef. You sure do have a chance out there with so much talent
Thank you very much once again for this beautiful gesture :)
Your very welcome!
Looks delicious, just wondering where the dish is originated from? Using Shaoxing wine, is it from China? Or your own creation? Looking forward to move of your dishes! 😊
Thanks for your complement and a great question about the origin. I based this dish off a Chinese dish. I added heat to the dish by using chilies and I added the technique of frying the prawn heads before stir frying the dish. Now, I'm going to check out your content. Thanks again.
Thanks @chefsteve! Being in Asia at the moment, we're loving all the different flavors from the different varieties of dishes.
The frying of the prawn's head first like that is a novelty technique for us, but we're not a big fan of eating prawn heads.
Thanks for checking out our content too. We're just getting started, so still learning the ropes on Steemit. :)
Two words I love - spicy and prawn. Very nice and delicious dish! I love the part about the flavor in the head portion. I totally understand that and so agree. Growing up in the Philippines, we would always enjoy that part. Truly flavorful!
Love the dedication as well. What a very sweet and elegant gesture!
Wow. I watch a Food and traveling show on Youtube and they go to different places and eat a lot of prawns but I would say that the way you have prepared must be very tasty and delicious.
Thanks for your kind words!
It looks delicious :) upvoted and follow~~
Thanks! I will check out your content as well.
Huh hmm, I’m your Steemit friend and I absolutely love fresh water prawn....
I would cook you a beef dish. And definitely pour you a glass of wine! Let me get back to the kitchen... there is work to do.
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So good
Thanks!
Yum.
Thank you!
Oh my goodness... Okay I am hungry now!
Thanks for you very nice complement!
Sweet! You gotta make more than 4 though!
Haha! Two of us could barely finish them. They are huge. 1.5 pounds for 5 pieces. Thanks for your funny comment!
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Wow!!! It looks sooo yummy! Right now I'm so jealous @nainaxtengra!
Don't be jealous! I'll dedicate a dish to you too!
😱😱 really? I can't wait to see it! 💗💗💗
If you want, you can dedicate dishes to people too! I think that my idea of the dish dedication is more than just an upvote. It shows real appreciation of the friendships that we are making on Steemit. I want this to become a movement on Steemit. Just follow my title "Dish Dedication for @" and fill in your person for dedicating and then the name of the dish. Then use the tag dishdedication. We can inspire other people to dedicate dishes to people too! It will be fun and we can spread some love around the community! I will be coming to Bangkok in March and I want to meet up with you and whoever else is in town! I do know a few others that will be there. Perhaps you know them too!
That's a great idea, I love it. Great, can't wait to meet you! Who else is coming?
Are you on steemit chat? My chat name is the same @chefsteve. I can give you all the details there.
This is a fantastic recipe (LOVE anything with prawns) and using only a few simple ingredients like chilli, ginger, soy sauce, garlic, onion etc I really feel that you can't go wrong. Also very nice that you did a dedication to a friend on Steemit, really shows the power of this platform to bring people from all over the world together!
Thanks, My idea for dish dedications was that it is more than an upvote. It shows real appreciation. Try it sometime! And use the tag dishdedication. Maybe it can become a movement of appreciation. The prawns were amazing too!
That's a great idea, I might do that actually, there's a lot of great people (chefs and foodies especially) that inspire me here on Steemit so would be a great way to show appreciation.
Hey Dan, Thanks for you comment! The Alliance is an awesome group of people that I belong to. We support each other's work and do a lot of chatting! I just like the idea of "dish dedications" so I created that tag. I'm thinking of building dish dedications into a bigger concept. More on that in chat!