Grilled Garlic Butter King Prawns Recipe

This is a dish that can be elegant if presentation is done right that it will impress your family and guests. Sometimes when you plan to cook a few dishes yet you have only 2 stoves and 1 oven, this will be one of the easiest recipe to pop in the oven, when the oven beeps, plate and serve immediately.


Recipe for 1-2

Ingredients
8 King Prawns
6 cloves of Garlic (minced finely)
2 tablespoons of Butter (approx 30g)
1 teaspoon of Italian Herbs (or any Herbs)


1. Prepare the prawns, our tips below.
2. Lightly rinse, pat dry, and arrange the prawns.
3. Pre-heat oven to 250°C.
4. Mix Garlic, Butter, Italian Herbs well.
5. Fill each prawns with about half a teaspoon of Garlic Butter Mix.
6. Grill in the oven for approx 15mins.
7. Plate the prawns and serve hot.

Enjoy~

Lesson Learnt & Tips:
- These prawns can be prepared few hours before meal time, cover with kitchen wrap and store in fridge.
- Fresh Prawns shelf life in a refrigerator is 1-2 Days. For longer shelf life of 6-8 Months store in a Freezer. More info here.
- How to prepare the prawns? For ours we are keeping the head, shell, legs and tail on for presentation. To devein the prawn, use a kitchen scissor to cut the shell along the middle of the back. Then use a knife to make a long slit along the middle of the back to expose the dark vein. Pull out the vein. To have the butterfly prawn effect, give a deep cut along the back, open it out and press it down so that it's flat. Turn the prawns over and slit in between of all the prawns leg so it won't curl up during the grilling process.


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Red Date Drink with Manuka Honey

Proportions to make it taste good!
2 hand full of Dried Red Dates
1 Litre of Water
1 tablespoon of Manuka Honey
1 cup of Room Temperature Water

Put the 1 Litre of Water to boil. While waiting cut the Dried Red Dates, take out the seed and rinse them. When the water is boiling, put in the Red Dates and boil for 30mins on Medium heat. In a separate cup, mix room temperature water to dissolve Manuka Honey. Mix both Red Dates Drink and Manuka Honey Drink together. It can be drink warm or chilled. Would not advice to put ice as it will dilute the drink.


Health Benefit of Red Dates
It is a fruit from the shade tree, when dried it has higher potassium, Vitamins B1, B2. It has also Vitamin A, protein, calcium, phosphorus, iron and magnesium.
It helps to chase away the cold on a chilly day.
List of goodness
antifungal
anti-inflammatory
relives stress
improve digestion
soothe a sore throat
improves immunity
decrease the levels of cholesterol in your bloodstream
stimulate the production of white blood cells
believed to suppress cancer cells
prevent gallstones
prevent osteoporosis
prevent anemia
power to strengthen the spleen and stomach
nourish and produce blood
tranquilize the mind
moderate irritation of the stomach
enriching and replenishing blood

I learnt something today. Hope you too!

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Steam Exploration ::: Steamed Chinese Paper Wrap Herbal Chicken 纸包药材鸡

The pleasant aroma of this steamed Chinese Herbs when you cut open the wrap the Chinese Herbs flavors the chicken so deliciously, which is actually one of my family favorite dishes to order on & off. My parents will always say it is a healthy choice, but to me being at my age healthy or not healthy… hahaha …I’ll say… as long as it’s delicious and this is one of the dishes I like to eat too!!!



I’ve always trust my local herbal shop to introduce the mixture of herbs for me to do this dish; but at times when there is no herbal shop I would purchase the “herbal chicken soup” herb mix from the closest supermarket. This is not my 1st time doing it. Did this back in college in my dorm and called over my friends to share the joy.

1 whole farm Chicken
1 pre-packed of Herbs (my choice) “herbal chicken soup”
Extra Red Dates
Extra Wolfberries
Aluminum Foil
Baking Paper
Plastic



Marinate Combo/Mixture for chicken:
1 tablespoon of Light Soy Sauce
1 tablespoon of Sugar
3 tablespoons of Chinese Cooking Wine
1 teaspoon of White Pepper
2 tablespoons of Sesame Oil
1 tablespoon of grated Ginger

Step 1: Give your chicken some exercise and gently rub in layers of marinate then leave it for a 2 to 3 hours.
Remember to turn you chicken half way through this process. You may choose to leave it marinated overnight in the fridge.

Step 2: Doing this base on the restaurant style at JB. Let’s prepare our wrap! Place Aluminum Foil 1st then followed by the Baking Paper then the Plastic.
Reason why I am adding a layer of Aluminum Foil is because I would like the heat to be instance inside to cook up the chicken faster to make it tender in a short period of time!

Step 3: Take some herbs and stuff it inside of the chicken.

Step 4: Place the chicken on the plastic.

Step 5: Place the remaining herbs at the bottom and top, roughly covering the chicken.

Step 6: Pour the remaining marinade sauce over the chicken.

Step 7: Wrap the Plastic neatly.

Step 8: Continue with the Baking Paper.

Step 9: Lastly, fold and wrap it with the Aluminum Foil.

Step 10: It’s time to steam on high heat for about 1-1.5 hours. The longer you steam the softer & aromatic the chicken will turn out.

Step 11: Take it out and put on a dish. It will stay warm for a while. Use a knife or scissors to cut open the layers when all your guests are seated on the table.



Enjoy this recipe!

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