5 sweet and sour prawns Recipes

sugar, soy sauce, chinese white rice vinegar (or cider vinegar), tomato paste, shaoxing rice wine (or dry sherry or sherry wine), cornflour (corn starch), water (to mix with cornflour), peanut oil, garlic cloves (finely chopped ), ginger (2 cm finely chopped ), spring onion (finely sliced , original recipe called for 4), prawns (green or raw peeled and deveined, i removed tails ), carrot (peeled and julienned), red capsicum (bell pepper), green capsicum (bell pepper), chilies (i used small red deseeded and julienned), chili (i used small red finely sliced seeds as well)

eggplants, peeled and cut in pieces 8 cm x 1 cm (aubergine), oil (for deep frying), lean ground pork, dried prawns, soaked and very finely chopped, chili paste, salted soybeans, mashed, very finely sliced spring onions, very finely chopped soaked dried shiitake mushroom, chicken stock, chinese rice wine, sesame oil, commercial sweet and sour sauce

green prawns, peeled and deveined, squid, tubes split , and scraped inside, green pawpaw, peeled , deseeded and grated (you need 1 cup of grated pawpaw, i grate mine in the food processor), shallots, finely sliced (use golden or red shallots), lemongrass, crushed and white part finely chopped, kaffir lime leaf, fresh , centre veins removed, rolled, then very finely sliced, coriander leaves, roughly chopped (cilantro), mint, leaves only, stems removed and roughly chopped, salad dressing (see recipe for hot and sour dressing below), peanuts , roasted in a dry pan then crushed, crispy shallots (buy these in a jar from an asian food store), red chilies , deseeded (use 4 if you want it hotter), garlic cloves, chopped finely, lime juice, fresh, palm sugar (or to taste), fish sauce (to taste, you want a balance of hot , sour, sweet and salty so adjust ingredients as required)

cooking oil, garlic, mushrooms, sliced, white fish, cubed, baby prawns, scallops, shrimp, crabmeat, fettuccine, cooked, green onion, chopped, sour cream, half-and-half, parmesan cheese, grated, seasoning salt, sweet basil , large pinch