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