[Thailand] How to cook Prawns with tamarind sauce (goong ma kham)

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Ingredients

  • 2 cups (500 ml) vegetable oil
  • 8 large raw king prawns, peeled and deveined, with tails intact
  • 40 g tapioca flour
  • 20 g rice flour
  • ½ bunch Chinese broccoli (gai lan), trimmed and cut into 4–5 cm lengths
  • large handful coriander leaves
  • 1 large fresh red chilli, julienned
Tamarind sauce
  • ¼ cup (60 ml) vegetable oil
  • 2 small dried chillies
  • 3 large garlic cloves, chopped
  • 3 large fresh red chillies, julienned
  • 8 red shallots, sliced
  • 3 red birds-eye chillies, chopped
  • ¼ cup (60 ml) fish sauce
  • ¼ cup (60 ml) tamarind puree
  • 150 g soft palm sugar
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 200 ml water

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