Unlabelled Recipe: Yummy Cereal Prawns

Recipe: Yummy Cereal Prawns

Cereal Prawns. Cereal Prawn (aka 麦片虾) is a constant favourite in many restaurants or zi char stalls in Singapore. People love them, so do we for the simple reason that they're so sinfully satisfying. Butter cereal prawns are a quintessential dish Chinese restaurants here in Singapore.

We love this Cereal Nestum Prawns recipe! It's so delicious and so easy to make. Cereal butter prawns with crispy oatmeal topping to substitute for Nestum cereal. You can cook Cereal Prawns using 7 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Cereal Prawns

  1. Prepare 40 grams of Cereal / oats mix.
  2. You need 8 large of Prawns.
  3. Prepare 2 medium of raw / cooked salted egg yolk, chopped roughly.
  4. Prepare 2 clove of curry leaves.
  5. It's 3 small of chilli.
  6. Prepare 30 grams of butter.
  7. It's 1/4 liter of Vegetable oil for deep frying.

Crispy oatmeal topping, definitely not soggy! In Asia, if you want to make the cereal. Cereal Prawn (aka 麦片虾) is a constant favourite in many restaurants or zi char stalls in Singapore. If you are ever in Singapore, this cereal prawn dish is another one of the must-order dishes.

Cereal Prawns step by step

  1. Using a pair of kitchen scissors or small knife, make a slit across the top of the prawn and pull out the veins, leaving the entire shell for the prawn still intact..
  2. In a wok, add enough oil to cover the prawns. When the oil is hot enough (starting to bubble gently at the sides), add in the prawns and curry leaves. Cover and deep fry till the prawns are just cooked. Drain most of the oil leaving just a bit left in the wok and also set aside the prawns and curry leaves. Discard the curry leaves stalks..
  3. Melt butter in the wok, then add chopped salted egg yolks, cereal prawn mix, sliced chilli and previously deep fried curry leaves. Stir fry till fragrant..
  4. Add the prawns and stir till they are evenly coated in the cereal paste..

Cereal prawns must be the weirdest dish ever invented by the Cze Char Chef! Just imagine trying to tell a Westerner about a wonderful dish made with breakfast cereal and prawns! Highly addictive, pour some on plain-tasting. See original recipe at: foodyoo.com. 🍳 We took the cereal prawn dish that we all love so much, and recreated it into a #CerealslyGood snack. WOKWOK #CerealslyGood Cereal Prawn Potato Chips.

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