During these unprecedented times, when staying at home is of the utmost importance, us here at The AU Review are going to be doing everything we can to help readers live their best lives, indoors.
As with many other media companies who typically focus on getting folks out and about, we’re shifting to adapt to the necessary lock-downs taking place all over the world. One way we’ll be doing so is simply by sharing our favourite recipes.
Over the next few weeks (or months, who knows) we’ll be publishing the cocktail and food recipes that we find most exciting, so that when you aren’t ordering in to support your favourite venues, you’ll know enough to quickly throw together some top-class concoctions.
Red Spice Road’s Roasted King Prawns with Coconut Mustard Sauce
Notes: This popular Melbourne restaurant has been a go-to for reliable Asian flavours for more than a decade now. Like many inventive venues, they’re now offering up “Survival Packs” which include all the ingredients for people to cook their dishes at home. The packs can be ordered by recipe and can be found here. In the meantime, here is Chef Mo’s simple instructions for making their Roasted King Prawns with Coconut Mustard Sauce.
Ingredients
- 6 king prawns
- 80g of yellow mustard seeds (soaked overnight in white vinegar)
- 100g of plain yoghurt
- 3-4 green chilies
- 70g of ginger
- 5 garlic gloves
- 10ml of mustard oil
- 250ml of coconut milk
- 1 teaspoon of black mustard seeds
- 1 teaspoon of garam msala
- Salt and sugar to taste
Method
- Preheat oven to 220*C.
- Remove the vein from the prawns and cut in half – length way with shell on.
- Put prawns on oven tray with shell side down.
- Heat the mustard oil in a pain and add the black mustard seed.
- Drain the yellow mustard seed and make the paste with the yoghurt, green chilli, ginger, garlic, coconut milk, salt, sugar.
- Put the paste into the mustard pan and simmer for 5 minutes.
- Put coconut paste on prawn meat and roast for 5 minutes.
- Sprinkle garam masala and chopped coriander as garnish.
Red Spice Road is located at 141 Queen St, Melbourne VIC 3000..
