Har Lok (Cantonese prawn style)
Har Lok (Cantonese prawn style)

Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, har lok (cantonese prawn style). It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Har Lok (Cantonese prawn style) is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods on earth. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions daily. Har Lok (Cantonese prawn style) is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They are nice and they look fantastic.

Har lok (Cantonese dry fry prawns). Choosing the correct prawns size to use. Depending on the occasions, you can use either jumbo size prawns, or medium size prawns for this dish: For really special occasions, like Chinese New Year, it is best to use the biggest size prawns you can get.

To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook har lok (cantonese prawn style) using 11 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Har Lok (Cantonese prawn style):
  1. Make ready 1 tablespoon sugar
  2. Make ready 1 tablespoon oyster sauce
  3. Make ready 2 tablespoon fish sauce
  4. Make ready Prawn
  5. Prepare Leek
  6. Get Chili pepper
  7. Prepare Fried chili (optional if u want it spicy)
  8. Get Red onion
  9. Get Garlic
  10. Get Ginger
  11. Get Black pepper (I have mixed it in the sauces)

I came across recipes using black beans, xo sauce, fermented salted beans, etc so as you can tell, the sauce ingredients is flexible. To the Cantonese, prawns (pronounced as "ha" in Cantonese) symbolize laughter and happiness, and they would often serve the Cantonese Style Stir-Fried Prawns in Sauce during festive occasions. This classic and simple-to-make Cantonese dish is also known as Har Lok - one that holds deliciously sweet and savoury flavours that everybody loves. These Har Lok or Cantonese-Style Fried Prawns were once a popular entree served as part of a banquet meal in most Chinese restaurants across Malaysia.

Steps to make Har Lok (Cantonese prawn style):
  1. Prepare all your ingredients as below
  2. Fry your prawn first and put aside. Then fry your ginger,garlic,red onion and fry chilies also leek.As below in the picture.Then add in your sauces and abit of water.
  3. Leave it for about 3-4 minutes medium heat. And then add in your prawn And big red chilies.Stir well and leave it about 2-3 minutes. There you are done and ready to serve. Always remember to keep taste on your gravy,if you fee its taste not according to your liking you can always add bit of this and that.Happy try…

The prawns are deep-fried and then coat with a spicy, sweet and salty sauce. You can now enjoy this dish at most Chinese or seafood restaurant, or simply make it at home with this easy recipe. Har Lok (Stir-Fried Prawns) is a Cantonese dish often served during festive occasions or family dinners. Prawns are pronounced as "har" in Cantonese, symbolising laughter and happiness. We are ecstatic to be sharing with you Violet Oon's personal Har Lok recipe!

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