RECIPE: Butter Prawns

This is the first thing we made. It's really hard to screw this one up. It starts with butter and garlic. How can you go wrong from there?

BUTTER PRAWNS
Serves 4

Ingredients:
2 tbsp butter
4 garlic cloves, peeled & chopped
250g (about 1/2 lb.) prawns (shrimp with heads and whiskers on)
salt and black pepper (lots of pepper if you like pepper)
1 tbsp coriander leaves (that's what they call cilantro here)

1. Dry roast the black pepper in the wok without oil. When the peppercorns start to move back and forth, you know they're done. Careful not to burn.
2. Crush the toasted black peppercorns, coursely.
3. In a wok, over medium heat, melt the butter and fry the garlic till light brown.
4. Add the prawns and season with salt and pepper. Cook until prawns turn pink, about 5 minutes.
5. Serve garnished with coriander leaves.

Now, if you want to kick up up a notch, you can use this as the starting point for making an even better recipe - BLACK PEPPER PRAWNS.

After step 2, you can add 1 tbsp of oyster sauce and 1-2 tsp of black sweet soy sauce.