Author Topic: Recipe review Sweet & Sour Prawns - pge 37 A Taste of Asia  (Read 10956 times)

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This is a great recipe and hardly needs any tweaking.  I tend not to chop my onions for more than 2 seconds on speed 5 and usually opt for speed 1 instead of soft speed so they were the only changes I made.  I did half the recipe but kept all the vegetable amounts as per the full quantity to make it stretch further.  The vegies were cooked perfectly, just the right amount of crunch to them and served with my fried rice, it became a meal which I would gladly share with friends.
5/5 and a real winner. 
« Last Edit: May 06, 2011, 06:11:08 am by judydawn »
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Re: Recipe review Sweet & Sour Prawns - pge 37 A Taste of Asia
« Reply #1 on: May 06, 2011, 06:16:54 am »
Looks nice Judy I am glad you had success with the Asian cookbook.

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Re: Recipe review Sweet & Sour Prawns - pge 37 A Taste of Asia
« Reply #2 on: May 06, 2011, 08:33:33 am »
Glad this one worked for you JD and your photo is great.
I am allergic to shellfish  :( so always look at the these recipes with a view to swapping the meat.
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Re: Recipe review Sweet & Sour Prawns - pge 37 A Taste of Asia
« Reply #3 on: May 06, 2011, 08:38:00 am »
Chicken would work well Jan.
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Re: Recipe review Sweet & Sour Prawns - pge 37 A Taste of Asia
« Reply #4 on: May 06, 2011, 09:05:03 am »
Thanks JD. I got out my book to mark the recipe and found I had already put a sticky marker on it and pencilled in "maybe chicken". If I had remembered to take the chicken out of the freezer this morning we could have had this for dinner as I have everything else but alas I wasn't that organised so not sure what we will have now.  :(
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Re: Recipe review Sweet & Sour Prawns - pge 37 A Taste of Asia
« Reply #5 on: May 06, 2011, 09:22:55 am »
Wonderful result Judy,DH and I love sweet and sour Prawns. :)
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Re: Recipe review Sweet & Sour Prawns - pge 37 A Taste of Asia
« Reply #6 on: May 06, 2011, 10:40:07 am »
Then you'll both love this one CC  ;)
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Re: Recipe review Sweet & Sour Prawns - pge 37 A Taste of Asia
« Reply #7 on: May 06, 2011, 11:19:41 am »
What recipe did you use for the fried rice JD. It looks really yummy. It's probably on the forum but I find it really hard to find things on here sometimes.

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Re: Recipe review Sweet & Sour Prawns - pge 37 A Taste of Asia
« Reply #8 on: May 06, 2011, 11:50:36 am »
Not on the forum Twitterpated - cooked in a frying pan.  Cooked the rice yesterday for another dish but made enough for this as well.  Made an omelette, set aside until it cooled, rolled it up and sliced in 1 cm slices, pan fried chopped red onion and bacon, added the rice, omelette slices, cooked peas and soy sauce. Very fast whilst the sweet and sour prawns were cooking and a change from plain steamed rice for a change. Tastes heaps better than bought fried rice.
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Re: Recipe review Sweet & Sour Prawns - pge 37 A Taste of Asia
« Reply #9 on: May 06, 2011, 11:55:49 am »
Shock horror JD  :o I thought all your cooking was done mostly in the TMX.  ;D

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Re: Recipe review Sweet & Sour Prawns - pge 37 A Taste of Asia
« Reply #10 on: May 06, 2011, 12:04:04 pm »
Looks good JD! Thanks for the review.

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Re: Recipe review Sweet & Sour Prawns - pge 37 A Taste of Asia
« Reply #11 on: May 06, 2011, 12:18:17 pm »
Shock horror JD  :o I thought all your cooking was done mostly in the TMX.  ;D
  99% of it is Twitterpated and fried rice is a rarity in this house but sometimes you just have to do it this way  ;D ;D
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Re: Recipe review Sweet & Sour Prawns - pge 37 A Taste of Asia
« Reply #12 on: May 06, 2011, 02:37:20 pm »
Glad to hear a good review on this, JD - I wasn't thinking to try this dish as my idea of sweet and sour prawns has deep fried prawns, lol - you know, Australian sweet and sour?

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Re: Recipe review Sweet & Sour Prawns - pge 37 A Taste of Asia
« Reply #13 on: May 06, 2011, 10:31:15 pm »
Looks so appetising, Judy - only downside now that reviews for Taste of Asia book are surfacing I will really need to obtain one - given my recipe book collector aversion.  :)  :)
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Re: Recipe review Sweet & Sour Prawns - pge 37 A Taste of Asia
« Reply #14 on: May 07, 2011, 01:34:38 am »
Glad to hear a good review on this, JD - I wasn't thinking to try this dish as my idea of sweet and sour prawns has deep fried prawns, lol - you know, Australian sweet and sour?
  You mean the battered version thermoheaven?  I was never into the battered version so this one is far more healthy. I think it would be nice to, once the sauce is made to just add a can of tuna.
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