Steamed Prawns with Butter-Garlic and Green Bean Noodle(Bean Vermicelli)蒜茸牛油蒸粉絲大蝦

Families and Friends, hope you had a wonderful day today, either at work or with kids! I know y'all are busy, but we still have eat. Sometimes eating at home costs the same as eating out, but at least you know what you eating. So eat at home more often! Ok, for today I will show a traditional dish but with a little  twist. It's called Steamed Prawns with Butter-Garlic and Green Bean Noodle(Bean Vermicelli)蒜茸牛油蒸粉絲大蝦. You'll see how easy and simple this dish is.

Alright, let's cook!!!

Ingredients

• 1 lb large white shrimps( cleaned and devined)
• 2 pcs dried bean noodle(soaked)

This dried and fried garlic is super tasty. It pairs great with steamed food because of its contrasting intensity.

I've seen this at local grocery stores as well as the Asian ones.

Seasoning

• 2 tbs unsalted butter(melted)
• 4 clove fresh garlic( minced)
• 1 tbs fried garlic
• 1 green onion (chopped)
• 1-2 slice tomato(diced)
• 1 ts salt
• 1/2 ts sugar
• 1 ts sesame oil
• 2 ts cooking wine
• 1/2 ts chicken bouillon

Save some of the green part of the scallions and the tomatoes for a garnish at the end.

Mix in all the seasonings into the melted butter. This will be for seasoning the raw shrimp.

How to melt the butter? Place the butter in a bowl and put it the microwave for about 25 seconds. Now you have some nice melted butter. Mix the melted butter with all the seasoning, except the diced tomato and half the green onion because we will be using it for a garnish later. Now set it aside.

Soaking the green bean noodle

In large bowl, fill it up with warm water and soak the noodle for about 10 minutes. Then drain it, and finally set it aside.

Soak in WARM water for about ten minutes. The noodles will only be softened and par cooked in this process because we will be steaming later.

I recommend cutting the noodles a little bit shorter before plating. It helps when eating it in a family style setting. Long noodles get hard to share from the same plate (which usually ends up getting cut anyways).

Seasoning the shrimp

In a large bowl, mix up the shrimp with the butter-garlic seasoning we prepared and set it aside. If you do not like to eat shrimp in the shell, feel free to clean and trim the shrimp to your liking BEFORE you season it. I prefer the shell because it has a lot of flavor which brings a good seafood flavor to the entire dish.

Shelled for more flavor OR deshelled for preference and convenience. It's up to you how you want to do it. I know some kids don't like their shrimp shelled....

Distribute the seasoning as evenly as you can.

On a large plate, place the soaked noodle in the middle of the plate and top it nicely with the seasoned shrimp. Set it aside

With the noodles acting as a nest, place the shrimp in an even layered pattern as shown here. It will let the shrimp cook evenly. That is the biggest purpose of this step (besides it looking pretty fancy lol).

Once your water is hot and boiling, place the cover and let it steam for about 5 minutes or until the shrimp is done to your liking.

Now, bring 1/4 pan or steamer of water to boiling, (we don't need too much water, bcz the shrimp only needs to steam in very short time) place the shrimp into the pan/steamer and let steam for  5 minutes the most.  Take out the shrimp carefully and garnish with diced tomato and green onion! That's it, Steamed Prawns with Butter-Garlic and Green Bean Noodle 蒜茸牛油蒸粉絲大蝦! Enjoy
It!!

Carefully remove the hot plate from the steam pan and place it aside to rest for just a moment.

Final garnish and you're done! This dish will have very delightful shrimp flavors that have steamed onto the noodles and throughout the dish. Mmmmm like a Chinese Shrimp Scampi! lol

Coming next!!
Beef Shank in Hot Oil
紅油牛腱

Psalm 37:4
"Delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart."

詩篇37:4
"你要以耶和華為樂， 他就把你心裡所求的賜給你."