- Prep Time: 20 minutes
- Cook Time: 20 minutes
- Serving: 4
Nutrition facts (per portion)
- Calories: 137
- Fat Content: 8g
- Saturated Fat Content: 1g
- Carbohydrate Content: 0g
- Sugar Content: 0g
- Fiber Content: 0g
- Protein Content: 16g
- Sodium Content: 0.42g
Fragrant Thai prawns
Ingredients
- king-prawn - 20 raw king prawns
- shallot - 1 small shallot, finely chopped
- garlic-clove - 4 garlic cloves, finely chopped
- red-chilli - 1 fresh red chilli, halved, seeded and finely chopped
- root-ginger - 2 1/2 cm piece of fresh root ginger, peeled and finely chopped
- lemongrass - 1 stem of lemongrass, tough outer leaves removed, finely chopped
- mint - a good handful of fresh mint leaves, finely chopped
- coriander - a good handful of fresh coriander leaves, finely chopped
- olive-oil - 100ml/3 1/2 fl oz olive oil
- lime - grated zest and juice of 1 lime
Instructions
- Tip all the chopped ingredients into a bowl, add the olive oil along with the lime zest and juice and mix well. Set aside for 30 minutes to allow the flavours to mingle.
- To make fragrant Thai prawns, remove heads and peel shells from 20 raw king prawns but leave tail sections on. Toss in the marinade and cook on a really hot barbecue for 45 seconds on each side until they turn from grey-blue to pink.
Thai recipe for 4 people, takes only 20 mins; recipe has king prawn, shallot, garlic clove, red chilli, root ginger, lemongrass, mint, coriander, olive oil and lime.
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