If you cannot decide what to cook with the prawns after they have defrosted from the fridge, I suggest you marinate some prawns with tamarind juice. To obtain the juice, add some warm water to tamarind. Buy the seedless type of tamarind or asam java. Evenly spread tamarind juice over the prawns. Marinate for half an hour before you put in the frying pan to fry with oil.

Ingredients:

300 gm medium-size prawns, clean and deveined
2 tablespoon tamarind
3 tablespoon oil for frying
cucumber slices to garnish

Method:

Clean prawns by opening a slit at the back to take … read more

Lala is a delicious dish when it is cooked in a simple stir-fried way. But lala has a lot of mud sticking around its flesh. You have to make sure the lala is fresh when you buy. Soak lala in water for 10 minutes and rinse. Big size lala is better which has bigger flesh. You can add one or two small mangoes for a bit of sour taste, the one that use in rojak, are more suitable.

Ingredients:

500 gm big lala. rinsed and cleaned
3 small mangoes, cut into strips
1 tablespoon black bean, washed
2 tablespoon … read more

I have tasted a dish of prawns with butter and cheese sauce in a restaurant a week ago. It was delicious and after a few days I cooked this dish for my family. Would you like to try it?

Ingredients:

10 pieces of big prawns, devein and cut off feelers, unshelled
40 gm butter
100 gm grated Parmesan cheese or Cheddar cheese
cornflour with a little water
Half cup evaporated milk
salt and pepper to taste

Method:

Melt butter in a saucepan over gentle heat. Fry the prawns till cook and fragrant. Dish out and put on … read more

Here is a simple dish of squid steamed with spicy taucheo or spicy bean paste. Look for spicy taucheo in a bottle at grocery store or super market. For cleaning the squid, discard the ink bag. Remove the head to wash the tentacles and the body of the squid well.

Ingredients:

2 large squids, cleaned
1 tablespoon onion oil (oil fried in slices of small onion)
3 tablespoon spicy taucheo
1/4 teaspoon black soya sauce
1/2 teaspoon sugar
cornflour with a little water to thicken
chopped coriander

Method:

Put the 2 squids on a plate and attach the head and tentacles. Steam for 5 … read more

This is a quick dish to cook and add in for another dish to go with your lunch or dinner. Buy a few squids and stock in the fridge. Just take out the squids and thaw beneath the lower part of the fridge the night before. Only the squid tubes are used for this dish. the heads and legs are kept to be fried with green vegetables of your choice. Mince some chillies, garlic and fresh ginger together. Keep in the fridge to be used later on.

Igredients:

300 gm squids, leave out heads and legs and cleaned.
salt and … read more

This dish is delicious for a change. I stewed the fish instead of boiling soup with black beans. Dont buy the small catfish. Get the weight around 1 kg or more. It is very fleshy and the bones can be easily discarded when you eat. To clean the fish, you have to run boiling water and lightly rub with salt to get rid of the slime.

Ingredients:

1 kg catfish ( clean and cut into big slices)
4 or 5 dried chillies, cut into 1-inch piece
2 big onions, cut into wedges
5 ginger slices
1 cup oil for frying
1 tablespoon … read more