In The Kitchen With Momster

Cooking prawns again at home. I just love prawns and couldn’t get bored with it even I cook it everyday. There is something I discovered last week…. HP Fruity Sauce. I have been using HP BBQ sauce all the time but have not try HP Fruity Sauce at all. I usually use HP BBQ sauce for all my meat marination or add as a sauce to all sandwiches like tuna sandwich, egg sandwich, hamburger as it has a tangy taste and it is delicious too.

My colleague gave me a bottle of HP Fruity Sauce last week and I took it back and explore it in my cooking. I tried it on the prawns tonight. I am surprised it turned out so good and cooking with this is much more simpler and easy. I can whip up a nice prawn dish within 15 minutes. Give it a try and I bet you will come back for more. Both my kids really love it.

Ingredients :
15 - 20 pcs medium sized prawns, trimmed and cleaned
Some cornflour for coating
Some chopped garlic
1 no. tomato, cut into cubes
3 tbsp HP Fruity Sauce
1/2 cup of water
1 tsp sugar
Some cornstarch for thickening
Some spring onion for garnishing

Method :
1. Dust prawns with some cornflour.
2. Heat oil in pan. Stir fried prawns for a minute or till it turned orange colour. Dish up and set aside.
3. Leave 1 tbsp of oil in the pan. Sauteed chopped garlic till fragrant. Then add in tomato and stir fried for a minute.
4. Add in HP Fruity sauce and water. Simmer till boil and add in sugar and the prawns.
5. Thicken with cornstarch.
6. Dish up and garnish with spring onion.

It is quite hard to find lala ( clams ) either from the wet market of night market nowadays. Last Tuesday I saw it at the SJ night market and I quickly grab a plate of it at RM5. Lala is always my favourite no matter how you cook it. I think my Dad cooked the best lala dish at home. Yummy and I learnt to cook the lala from him in many ways.

Since it was a rainy day last Tuesday, I cooked Black Pepper Lala Soup added with a lot of chopped ginger and some Chinese wine for supper. Dearie Suki don’t eat lala and can you imagine, I had that big pot of lala by myself. Wow… yummy, yummy, yummy…

Ingredients :
1 kg lala, cleaned and soak in salt water then drained
2 tbsp chopped ginger
1/2 tbsp whole blackpepper corn, crushed a bit
1 litre water
Salt to taste
2 tbsp Chinese wine
Some Chinese parsley

Method :
1. Heat oil in pan and sautee chopped ginger till fragrant.
2. Add in water and black pepper corn. Let it simmer for 30 minutes.
3. Add in lala and season with salt to taste. Let it simmer for another 5 minutes or till lala is cook.
4. Pour in the Chinese wine and garnish with Chinese parsley. Serve hot.