Prawns recipes help!

hot.chick · 6 September 2009 at 5:00PM

toss in garlic butter, or add prawn cocktail sauce?

Maybe add them to fried rice?

julieselz · 6 September 2009 at 5:09PM

harvestmoon wrote: »

Hi all
I have a student daughter who knows I love prawns.
To thank me for having her home over the hols she's been to a street market and bought me a bag of frozen king prawns - you know the ones - shelled but with the tails on ( as if I wanted thanking for having her home!!!)
Anyway, I've defrosted them and they're thoroughly tasteless!
My conscience won't let me bin them!
What can I do to make them 'edible'?
Any advice?? - asap!
Thanks.

Put your prawns on a backing tray with
4 tbsp butter
1 1/2 tsp fresh ground pepper
1 1/2 tsp cracked black pepper
2 tsp creole seasoning
3 tbsp worchestershire sauce
1 tsp chopped garlic
put in oven 450f for 2 mins each side then add juice of 1 lemon juice and another 3 tbsp butter and cook till all butter melted.
Delicious with crusty bread to dip in.

ps if no creole seasoning this is how you make it
2 tsp salt
2 tbsp garlic powder
1 tbsp ground black pepper
1 tbsp cayenne pepper
1 tbsp dried thyme
1 tbsp dried oregano
2 1/2 tbsp paprika
1 tbsp onion powder

Even if you dont have ingredient for it this time it is worth investing in as it is a very quick and tasty prawn dish. Enjoy

harvestmoon · 6 September 2009 at 5:09PM

Tanks very much forf all your suggestions.
They are currently defrosting, and bearing in mind they are already cooked.
Can I keep them in the fridge til tomorrow, open a jar of curry sauce, put them in there, and then freeze them again?
Bit stuck really!

misskool · 6 September 2009 at 5:10PM

You can warm them through with the recipes above but cooking them too long will make them taste even worse. Otherwise I would just dunk them in mayo with swirled with chilli sauce and eat them.

carolinosourus · 6 September 2009 at 5:15PM

You could marinate them and then heat them, as I agree with misskool, actually cooking them would make them worse but you can still heat them. I use pre-cooked prawns in quite a lot of dishes but I add them right at the end so they just warm through.

Gigervamp · 6 September 2009 at 5:16PM

I dunno. I've always been very wary with seafood.

Brighterfuture · 6 September 2009 at 9:18PM

With them aready being cooked they cant be refrozen.

hex2 · 6 September 2009 at 9:22PM

Marinade them in lemon juice for an hour once they are defrosted. Improves them a lot.

tandraig · 6 September 2009 at 9:37PM

they should be ok til tomorow in fridge - then either chuck them in curry or sweet and sour sauce or - my fave sweet chilli sauce. or it could just be lack of flavour due to them just being defrosted. personaly i would stir fry after stir frying onion garlic and ginger add spring onions soy sauce bit of sesame oil and cooked noodles and calling it prawn chow mien!