Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, har lok (cantonese prawn style). It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Har Lok (Cantonese prawn style) is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Har Lok (Cantonese prawn style) is something which I’ve loved my entire life.
These Har Lok or Cantonese-Style Fried Prawns were once a popular entree served as part of a banquet meal in most Chinese restaurants across Malaysia. Har lok (cantonese style fried-prawns in special sauce). Recipe source: Singapore Heritage Food by author, Sylvia Tan.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook har lok (cantonese prawn style) using 11 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Har Lok (Cantonese prawn style):
- Get 1 tablespoon sugar
- Get 1 tablespoon oyster sauce
- Get 2 tablespoon fish sauce
- Take Prawn
- Prepare Leek
- Get Chili pepper
- Make ready Fried chili (optional if u want it spicy)
- Prepare Red onion
- Prepare Garlic
- Take Ginger
- Prepare Black pepper (I have mixed it in the sauces)
Cantonese-style Dry-fried king prawns ( Gon Jin Har Lok) lightly coated in a sweet zesty orange dark sauce. For Har Lok, the best prawn to use is Ang Kar Hay (红脚虾 Hong Jiao Xia, literally translated as 'Red-Legged Prawn', because these prawns are larger than other prawns (like Glass Prawns. Har lok (干煎虾碌) is a classic Cantonese prawn dish with a slight western influence. Prawns in the shell are marinated with dark soya sauce, pan-fried, then tossed in a sauce.
Steps to make Har Lok (Cantonese prawn style):
- Prepare all your ingredients as below
- Fry your prawn first and put aside. Then fry your ginger,garlic,red onion and fry chilies also leek.As below in the picture.Then add in your sauces and abit of water.
- Leave it for about 3-4 minutes medium heat. And then add in your prawn And big red chilies.Stir well and leave it about 2-3 minutes. There you are done and ready to serve. Always remember to keep taste on your gravy,if you fee its taste not according to your liking you can always add bit of this and that.Happy try…
The simple sauce is made with tomato ketchup and Worcestershire sauce. There's lots of delicious umami flavour. Har Lok is a classic Cantonese dish of fried prawns coated with a sweet and savory sauce. Most people have their own version of this sauce when they make it at home. I came across recipes using black beans, xo sauce, fermented salted beans, etc so as you can tell, the sauce ingredients is flexible.
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