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Dry-Fried Large Prawns

A classic Shanghai dish featuring fresh prawns pan-fried in vegetable oil.

25 min
Easy
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Dry-Fried Large Prawns

Ingredients

large prawns (remove antennae and legs, cut each prawn body in half) 450 g
fine salt (for 10-minute marinating) 7 g
cooking wine 20 g
soy sauce 8 g
sugar 10 g
oil (for frying) 200 g

Instructions

1

Marinating

Remove the antennae and legs from the large prawns, cut each prawn body in half, then marinate with salt for 10 minutes.

2

Frying

Heat oil in a frying pan, add the prawn segments, fry repeatedly until cooked, then add cooking wine, sugar, and soy sauce, mix well, and remove from the pan to serve.