Butter Garlic Prawns – Vietnamese Style

Ingredients

• Quick and easy : This dish takes very little preparation and cooks in under 10 minutes
• Full of flavour : The combination of butter, garlic, fish sauce and oyster sauce creates an incredibly rich and savoury flavour.
• Perfect with rice : The sauce is absolutely irresistible poured over a bowl of hot steamed rice.
• Restaurant-style at home : The glossy prawns and fragrant sauce make this feel like something you would order in a Vietnamese seafood restaurant.
• Sugar
• Fish sauce
• Oyster sauce
• Tomato paste
• Siracha
• A splash of water
• Steamed jasmine rice
• Simple green vegetables
• Stir-fried greens
• Or even crusty bread to soak up the sauce
• 1 kg jumbo king prawns (shell-on or about 600g peeled jumbo king prawns)
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper
• 1 teaspoon paprika powder
• 1 whole bulb garlic (minced)
• 50 g butter
• 2 tablespoons fish sauce
• 1 tablespoon oyster sauce
• 1 tablespoon tomato paste
• 2 tablespoons sugar (caster or brown)
• 1 tablespoon siracha (or to taste)
• 2 tablespoons water
• Chilli flakes (optional)