Asian Seafood Recipes - Indonesian Stuffed Prawns (Udang Brengkes)  Recipe

Ingredients

• 1lb. (500 g.) large prawns

• salt to taste

• 1/4 cup salad oil

• 2 teaspoons juice of jeruk nipis/lime

Ground Ingredients:

• 4 red chilies

• 2 buah keras/candlenuts

• 2 oz. (60 g.) cashew nuts

• 1/2-inch (1.2-cm.) piece kunyit/turmeric

• 1 slice laos/galangal

• 1/2-inch (1.2-cm.) piece terasi/dried shrimp paste (dry-fried)

• 2 cloves garlic

• 12 shallots

• 1 teaspoon peppercorns

• 1 teaspoon sugar

• 1 tablespoon rice flour

Serves 4

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Method:

1. Heat oil and fry ground ingredients till aromatic and thick. Drain oil and put fried ground ingredients aside. Mix oil with lime juice.

2. Cut off prawn whiskers. Clean out sand sack at back of head. Pullout vein from neck. Leave head and body intact. Slit opening in stomach.

3. Season well with salt to taste. Stuff stomachs with ground ingredients. Pass a skewer through prawn from head to tail.

4. Grill over or under low heat. Baste with mixture of oil and lime juice.

5. Remove skewers, garnish and serve hot.