Butter Garlic Pepper Prawns...the follies of the young know-it-all!!!

Butter Garlic Pepper Prawns…the first prawn dish that I ever cooked quite a few years back…and was so afraid of overcooking the prawns that I served them still raw!!...and not just once, but a few times J…and every time insisted that they were cooked and that people eating it had no clue and needed to get their heads examined!!!...well now I know better…now I have eaten and cooked so many prawns that I had even once dreamt that I was jailed because I had singlehandedly managed to put the little critters on the endangered species list!! L …that’s saying a lot for someone who had exclaimed “this tastes just like chicken” when eating prawns for the first time ever back in school days…tch tch, the follies of the young know-it-all!!...the pic is of the handful of medium-sized prawns that I managed to sneak off to the terrace for the daylight picture out of the 2 kgs that I cooked on Friday evening for friends...and before you ask, no one needs to get their head examined anymore!!

Butter Garlic Pepper Prawns

Ingredients:

• Prawns, deveined & cleaned, medium size 500 gms (with or without tails, up to you)
• Garlic cloves, thin diagonally cut slices, 10-12
• Black pepper, coarsely crushed, 1 tsp or to taste
• Tabasco sauce, 1 tsp (optional)
• Butter, 1 ½ tbsp (Salted or Unsalted, up to you)
• Olive Oil, 1 ½  tbsp
• Cornflour/Cornstarch, 1-2 tbsp
• Salt, to taste

Instructions:

Wash and clean the prawns. 

Pat dry and put them in a bowl. Sprinkle cornflour on the prawns and keep them aside for 15-20 minutes. Just before cooking, wash the cornflour off the prawns and pat dry.

Heat butter & oil in a large flat pan. 

Add chopped garlic and sauté till it just about starts to turn golden brown at the edges.

Add prawns, black pepper , Tabasco sauce and salt. Stir and cook for 4-5 minutes without the lid till prawns turn pink. 

Serve hot! (pssstt...with crusty bread!)

Notes:

• Add a little more oil, butter, a few dried or fresh herbs; mix in freshly cooked spaghetti and Voila!!! a quick meal taken care of !!

• If you want cleaner looking dish or should I say not so rustic looking dish, finely grind the black pepper and finely chop the garlic...though IMO, it takes the fun away from fighting over the crisped up garlic