Curry Tiger Prawns

Ingredients :
Curry Tiger Prawns for 4 persons :
12 large raw tiger prawns
3 soya sauce soupspoonfuls
1 dry basil soupspoonful
2 curry soupspoonfuls
3 minced yolks of hard boiled eggs (keep the whites, also minced for the salad)
1 lemon

For the soya bean salad :
200 grams (half a pound) bleached (1 minute in boiling water fresh soya beans
20 grams (2/3 oz) fresh peeled ginger cut into very small cubes
2 cider vinegar soupspoonfuls
1 soya sauce soupspoonful
a little chive

Direction :
Carefully shell the tail of each prawn that must still stick to the head, open then in 2 by the lenght from the tail on its 3/4 and get rid of the instestine
In a bowl, blend with a whip the soya sauce, curry, hard boiled eggs yolks and basil to get a paste
Pre-heat your oven at 356°F on the grill position
Brush a little olive oil on the bottom of a cooking dish, lay down the opened prawns and slightly coat them with the curry paste and put into the oven at half eight during 12 minutes (6 minutes on each side
During the prawns cooking, prepare the salad : in a sald bowl, prepare the dressing with the vinegar, soya sauce, minced hard boiled eggs whites, then ginger and soya beans, mix quicky with spoons and present the salad on 4 service dishes, topped with chopped chives
Take the browned prawns out of the oven, sprinkle a little lemon juice on them and put 3 prawns around the salad in each dish and enjoy while the prawns are still warm

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Fish Kebabs

Ingredients :
There are an infinity of possibilities when making fish kebabs.There are few examples. We advise you to marinade the fish for few hours prior cooking them. You could use all sorts of very different marinades. For example you could place your fish in some olive oil along with some lime or lemon juice, then let your imagination do the rest. You could either, add some fresh herbs or dried garlic and some spices, vanilla or peppercorns.
There are few ideas to make your fish kebabs:

Direction :
- Tuna, chorizo, yellow pepper
- Bonito, smoked pork belly, sweet baby onions
- Fresh salmon, confit lemons, cherry tomatoes
- Filets of black sole, button mushrooms, dices of pork belly
(Use the same garnishes for seabass, sardines, grenadier, seabream or red snapper kebabs)
- Grouper, red and yellow pepper
- Scallops, pork belly, green and black olives (make sure to make a small incision into the coral (the orange bit))
- Tiger prawns, pineapple, bacon
- Grilled Dublin bay prawns (2 minutes on each side) with some sechuan pepper

To finish, another little idea: take some empty scallop shells place a couple of scallops in them, a bit of freshly ground pepper and a nob of good salted butter. Close them up and place them on the barbeque for 6 minutes, it is devine!!!

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