Steamed Tiger Prawns with Minced Garlic in Homemade Soy Sauce

This is a dish that is easy to cook, especially if you have prepared the homemade soy sauce in advance. However, as it is best to serve hot, this should be the last dish you prepare just before meal is served.

Preparation Time: 15 minutes
Cooking Time (excluding homemade soy sauce preparation): 6 minutes

Ingredients

Fresh tiger prawns, 4 each (Or you can choose other types of large size prawns).
1 stalk of spring onion, chopped
1 teaspoon of fried chopped garlic

A mixture of 
1 tablespoon of chopped garlic
4 teaspoon of cooking oil
1/2 teaspoon of cornstarch (or cornflour) mixed with 2 Teaspoon of water
A dash of salt to taste


for the Homemade Soy Sauce
1 large stock of spring onion, cut into halves
2 small slices of young ginger
1/2 teaspoon of cooking oil

A mixture of 
1 bowl of chicken stock (you can choose to make your own chicken stock or buy from supermarket)
1 teaspoon of dark soy sauce
1 teaspoon of light soy sauce
5gm of rock sugar (or 2 teaspoon of sugar if you don't have rock sugar)
Dash of salt to taste

Method

for the Homemade Soy Sauce
1. Put the cooking oil into a heated frying pan, add slices of ginger and spring onion into the oil once the oil is heated up. Fry until fragrant. Turn down the heat.
2. Pour in the mixture of the remaining ingredients slowly as there is oil in the pan. Turn up the heat after stirring. Turn off fire after mixture comes to a boil. Remove the spring onion and ginger slices.

for the Dish
1. Wash prawns clean and remove the heads and trim off the legs.
2. Cut the prawns into halves and place them neatly onto a steaming plate.
3. Pour the mixture of chopped garlic, corn flour mixture and oil over the prawns. Sprinkle the fried chopped garlic and steam till the prawns turn red (approximately 4 minutes). Remove from steamer.
4. Garnish the steamed prawns with chopped spring onions.
5. In a frying pan, heat up the 2 teaspoon of cooking oil and pour it over the steamed prawns.
6. Finally, pour your homemade soy sauce over the prawns. (Make sure the soy sauce is still hot before pouring!)