Yes, delicious cereal butter prawns! When I was a kid, I was spoiled a lot by Nenek. She knew that I loved prawns. She would cook the pot for the family and a whole other small pot for myself. Sounds crazy, I know but it was a good thing for the family, so that I would not eat their portion.
I had cravings for cereal prawns and I haven’t had this dish since I left Singapore. I never tried cooking it either but I decided to give it a go. It was surprisingly not difficult to do so I hope you can try it out!
Quick Steps for cereal butter prawns
Fry the prawns first.
Lotsa butter.
Fry the bird’s eye pepper and curry leaves!
And it’s done! It’s simple and fast to make. It’s usually expensive in restaurants because prawns in general are expensive. However, if you want to keep the cost a little lower, you can get frozen prawns.
Cereal Butter Prawns
Ingredients
- 1 cup oatmeal cereal Nestum is best but any oatmeal works
- 1 tbsp milk powder (optional)
- 1/2 kg prawns keep skin on for more flavor
- 3 tbsp cornstarch or enough to cover prawns
- salt to taste
- 2 tbsp cooking oil
- 1 tbsp butter
- 4 bird's eye chili pepper sliced into small pieces (more or less to taste)
- 2 handful curry leaves if it's difficult to find this, you can leave it out
Instructions
- Heat oatmeal cereal in a pan until it gets slightly brown and crispy. Leave it on the plate and mix with milk powder if any. Set aside.
- Clean prawns. I leave the skin on as it absorbs more flavor. Dry with paper towel. Toss and cover it with cornstarch and salt to taste.
- Heat up cooking oil and fry the prawns until cooked. Set aside to remove excess oil.
- Melt butter in pan. Add chilli pepper and curry leaves and fry until crispy. Lower heat and add prawns and coat it with the butter mixture. Add oatmeal and mix again. Serve hot.
