Recipe: Perfect Har Lok (Cantonese prawn style)

Har Lok (Cantonese prawn style). Har lok (cantonese style fried-prawns in special sauce). Recipe source: Singapore Heritage Food by author, Sylvia Tan. 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.

Ingredients to prepare har lok (Cantonese dry fry prawns). Anytime you cook prawns/shrimps, it is always best to undercook rather than overcook. Perfectly cooked prawns/shrimps will have crunchy texture, while overcooked ones will have chewy leathery texture, which is a big no no. You can have Har Lok (Cantonese prawn style) using 11 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Har Lok (Cantonese prawn style)

1. You need 1 tablespoon of sugar.
2. Prepare 1 tablespoon of oyster sauce.
3. It's 2 tablespoon of fish sauce.
4. You need of Prawn.
5. It's of Leek.
6. Prepare of Chili pepper.
7. You need of Fried chili (optional if u want it spicy).
8. Prepare of Red onion.
9. You need of Garlic.
10. It's of Ginger.
11. You need of Black pepper (I have mixed it in the sauces).

Har Lok is a classic Cantonese dish of fried prawns coated with a sweet and savory sauce. Most people have their own version of this sauce when they make it at home. I came across recipes using black beans, xo sauce, fermented salted beans, etc so as you can tell, the sauce ingredients is flexible. Har Lok Prawns Recipe - Fried prawns coated in a sweet and savoury sauce.

Har Lok (Cantonese prawn style) instructions

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....

Cantonese-s Food & Drink Healthy Snacks Nutrition Cocktail Recipes Har Lok. Cantonese style fried prawns with a sweet and savory sauce. It was the prawn dish that ruled the scene before (relative) newbies like cereal prawns and butter prawns usurped its throne. But let's not totally forget the Cantonese classic, shall we? To fry sweet and sour dry fried prawns, first clean up the prawns.