Kitchen appliances and utensils: stove, grill, frying pan, knife, cutting board, spoon, bowl, plate for serving.
Ingredients
Large tiger prawns | 3 pcs. |
Garlic | 3 cloves |
Chilli | 2 pcs. |
Ginger (root) | 30 g |
Olive oil | 3 tbsp. l |
Salt | taste |
Lemon | for serving |
Step cooking
You can cook delicious fried tiger shrimps according to a step-by-step recipe with a photo:
- Thaw shrimp at room temperature or in warm water before cooking. Crush with a knife, peel and finely chop the garlic and pour it into a bowl. Cut the ginger root into thin strips. Add it to the garlic. If desired, you can cut all the ingredients into small cubes.
- Cut hot peppers and remove seeds. This must be done so that the dish is not too spicy. Sprinkle it in small pieces and pour into a bowl of ginger and garlic.
- Wash the shrimp and cut the carapace first behind the neck, then along the back from neck to tail. Place them on the grill for a couple of minutes so that they turn red and brown.
- Put the skillet over the fire and pour in the olive oil. Instead of olive, you can use sunflower, sesame or any other vegetable oil to taste.
- Add chopped ginger, garlic and pepper to a preheated skillet, fry all the ingredients, stirring.
- Place the shrimp in a skillet, fry, periodically turning, until cooked.
- Serve the finished shrimps to the table, laying them on a plate and pouring them with sauce from the pan. Add the lemon slices. Clean shrimp from head and shell before eating.
Enjoy your meal!
Cooking options
Fried tiger shrimp is a very tasty dish, and it can also be prepared in other ways:
- You can clear the shell from the shrimp before you start cooking.
- Sometimes lemon juice is used in the cooking process.
- There is a recipe for frying shrimps, where they are pierced along with wooden skewers and fried in this form.
- Sometimes shrimp is marinated in hot soy sauce with spices before frying.
- You can fry the shrimp in butter.
- Sometimes some dry wine or honey is added to this dish.
- You can add greens during the frying process or decorate the finished dish.
- If desired, you can experiment with the addition of various spicy herbs and spices.
- Sometimes a little chicken stock is added to the pan during the frying process.
Video recipe
We suggest you watch the video recipe for cooking fried tiger shrimps. The author of the video briefly and clearly explains all the steps. At the end of the video, you can see which dish is the result.