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Hot and Sour Prawns: Secret of Indonesian Food

published by Mr Ghaz on Feb 16, 2009

The taste is so delicious and suitable for the entire family. It’s fast and easy to prepare. Serves four, at 205 Calories per serving.

The Indonesian traditional foods have faced many challenges from modern foods. People are considering adopting the back-to nature style. This was due to the high risk threatening the health and the most famous Indonesian food is Hot and Sour Prawns.


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Ingredients

  • 500 g prawns, unpeeled
  • 2 tbsp margarine for sautéing
  • 1 tbsp sliced shallots
  • 3 tbsp sweet soy sauce
  • 200 ml water
  • 100 g tomatoes, roughly chopped
  • 5 tbsp onion, roughly chopped
  • Oil for frying
  • 1 tbsp sliced garlic
  • 2½ tbsp sliced red chilies
  • ½ tsp pepper
  • 1 tsp salt

Method

  1. Put oil in frying pan; deep-fry the prawns, set aside.
  2. Blend into a paste: garlic, red chilies, pepper, and salt. Put margarine in a pan, sauté the paste and shallots over medium heat until fragrant.
  3. Add onion, tomatoes, soy sauce, and water. Bring to boil over medium heat.
  4. Add the prawns, simmer until the sauce turns thick and remove from the heat.
  5. Transfer on a serving dish and serve.

*Serves : 4

*One serving : 205 Calories

Factors Make the Food Acceptable

There are some factors that make the foods acceptable for people from all over the world:

The quality of the foods, the way the foods presented needs to be improved to inspire the appetites, the popularity of the foods created “the national taste and standard” and “the national taste and standard” can make a consistent taste that important for foreigners.

Enjoy the food and Bon appetite!!

20 Responses so far | Have Your Say!

  1. # 1 by Maria Blazz
    February 16th, 2009 at 10:01 am #

    I love seafood, this is a particular way to prepare it. Thanks!

  2. # 2 by Darla Smith
    February 16th, 2009 at 10:51 am #

    Sounds delicious! I’ll have to try this sometime.

  3. # 3 by Christine Ramsay
    February 16th, 2009 at 12:28 pm #

    This sounds scrummy. I must try it out.

    Christine

  4. # 4 by M A Bhanpurwala
    February 16th, 2009 at 12:54 pm #

    yammy delicious food!

  5. # 5 by cardy
    February 16th, 2009 at 1:01 pm #

    Oh that looks so good,nice one.

  6. # 6 by monica55
    February 16th, 2009 at 3:31 pm #

    Very scrumptuous.
    Monica.

  7. # 7 by Brian Daniel Stankich
    February 16th, 2009 at 4:20 pm #

    I like your emphasis on presentation.

  8. # 8 by Morgana
    February 16th, 2009 at 6:30 pm #

    MMM I love to eat. Thank you for the recipe.

  9. # 9 by AC Hamilton III
    February 16th, 2009 at 7:26 pm #

    Great Job!

  10. # 10 by Eunice Tan
    February 16th, 2009 at 9:04 pm #

    Mmmmmmm…. yummy

  11. # 11 by nutuba
    February 16th, 2009 at 9:19 pm #

    Wonderful article! Problem is, you’ve made me hungry and I’ve already eaten dinner. :-) Nice job.

  12. # 12 by The Quail
    February 16th, 2009 at 11:24 pm #

    Awesome article and yummy too.

  13. # 13 by F J McCarthy
    February 17th, 2009 at 12:15 am #

    Looks great, and not that many calories, thanks

  14. # 14 by Yovita Siswati
    February 17th, 2009 at 12:47 am #

    it makes me hungry!

  15. # 15 by Likha
    February 17th, 2009 at 3:00 am #

    Wow! I’m vegetarian though. But thanks for sharing this.

  16. # 16 by Lorna Dykstra
    February 17th, 2009 at 4:38 am #

    I love prawns. I may have to try this.

  17. # 17 by Kalaiselvan
    February 17th, 2009 at 8:59 am #

    Nice recipe.. Ghaz.. Yummy..

  18. # 18 by spiritwalker
    February 23rd, 2009 at 9:32 pm #

    Thank you for this recipe. I love shrimp and so does my whole family.

  19. # 19 by Ann
    February 24th, 2009 at 7:04 pm #

    Excellent! ..real cool recipes…can’t wait any longer, i’m goin to try it now! Thanks

  20. # 20 by chuckiesd
    April 22nd, 2009 at 4:32 am #

    It look delicious..ermmmm..i miss a seafood.

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