Prawn Skewers Recipe Top and Easy to Prepare

Name: Prawn Skewers
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 5 min
Total time: 20 min
Yield: 2
Ingredients: prawns 12 pieces; Brokkoli 1 piece; carrot 1 piece; Mu Err Mushrooms 30 g; wooden skewers 6 pieces; Olive oil 2 tbsp.; garlic 1/2 piece; Chili 1 pinch; Salt 3 pinches; Pepper 2 pinches; Sugar 2 pinches; thyme 1 tsp.; Mixed leaf salad any; Lemon 1 pieces

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My Prawn Skewers Recipe I show you in this post.

Shrimp skewers are a great finger food for your next invitation.

Magic wonderful colorful skewers on the table and the plate and delight your loved ones with a great dish.

In the article you will find a link to matching dips and cold sauces as well as ideas for side dishes. Good luck!

Table of Contents

1. Recipe Prawn Skewers
2. Nutritional Values
3. Tips for Preparing Prawn Skewers
4. Marinate and Fry Prawn Skewers
5. Side Dishes for Prawn Skewers
6. Matching Ideas for your Kitchen

1. Recipe Prawn Skewers

The following guide comes from my first cookbook: The minute cook tastes faster.

I am happy if you try this, write me if you have questions.

Prawn Skewers

Cooked, photographed and written down by chef Thomas Sixt.

Servings 2

Calories 167

Total Time 20 Min.

Preparation Time 15 Min.

Cook Time 5 Min.

Simple guide to prepare shrimp skewers.

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Ingredients

Prawn Skewers
12	pieces	prawns (raw grey in colour or blanched pink)
1	piece	Brokkoli (a small broccoli head is sufficient)
1	piece	carrot (You can also use dark carrots)
30	g	Mu Err Mushrooms (or mushrooms / oyster mushrooms)
6	pieces	wooden skewers (or metal skewers)
Marinade
2	tbsp.	Olive oil (Asian variants: Peanut oil or sesame oil)
1/2	piece	garlic (finely sliced)
1	pinch	Chili (or dried)
3	pinches	Salt (i prefer to use Ursalz or himalaya salt)
2	pinches	Pepper (I use black pepper for this dish)
2	pinches	Sugar (brown raw cane sugar)
1	tsp.	thyme (or coriander or parsley)
Decoration and serving on plates
	any	Mixed leaf salad
1	pieces	Lemon (or lime)

Instruction

Raw and unpeeled prawns — Raw prawns still in their shells are an attractive main feature of our food.

Prepare shrimp

Defrost the shrimps/prawns. I always put the prawns in cold water.

If you use wooden skewers, put them in cold water.

Place a pot with water to blanch the vegetables on the stove and bring to the boil.

Prawns cleaning

Peel the raw, grey prawns and remove the intestine, dry the prawns and sauté briefly on both sides in a very hot pan at high heat for 2 minutes.

Have the prawns ready.

Blanched prawns can be recognized by their pink colour, which you don’t need to fry.

I prefer to use the raw prawns, then the skewers get better!

Cut into broccoli — For even cooking, cut the broccoli florets cross-shaped on the stalk.

Prepare vegetables

Prepare the vegetables, remove small broccoli florets from the broccoli head and cut the stalk slightly.

So the broccoli cookes evenly! Depending on their size, cut the carrots into slices or halve them lengthwise.

I always blanch the vegetables separately, because the cooking time is different.

It is essential to cool vegetables cold or put them in ice water so that they retain their beautiful colour.

Drain the vegetables on a kitchen crepe and drain.

Prepare the carrots — Cut carrots on a kitchen board.

Stick skewers

Be sure to rinse vegetables in cold water or place in ice water to preserve their beautiful color.

Then drain the vegetables on a piece of kitchen paper and dry them.

Put the prepared ingredients on the skewers.

You can now chill the skewers again and only finish preparing when your guests are there.

Marinades image — You can experiment with the marinades or consult the recipe below. If you have any questions, please use the comment function!

Prepare marinade

Now decide on a marinade:

Meditarran with olive oil and thyme or Asian with peanut oil and cilantro.

When guests come, I prefer to use parsley because not everyone likes cilantro (bug weed).

Mix the ingredients for the marinade and coat the shrimp skewers before frying.

Finish

Prepare the shrimp skewers on the grill, in a pan or in the oven final.

Serve with side dishes or salad and with cold sauces.

Enjoy your meal!

2. Nutritional Values

3. Tips for Preparing Prawn Skewers

For raw or already blanched or glazed sea creatures there are different ways of preparation, these I explain to you below.

3.1 With Raw Shrimps or Prawns

Get yourself some big, big, raw shrimp.

Raw, grey shrimps are better, they stay juicier and have a great taste.

Defrost the raw shrimps, take them out of the shell and take out the intestines at the top.

Then fry the prawns very quickly in a pan over high heat for two minutes on both sides. Remove from pan and allow to cool.

Raw prawns — remove the intestines from raw prawns

raw peeled prawns — The raw, peeled prawns on a board.

3.2 With Cooked Shrimps or Prawns

The pink shrimp, already blanched, just thaw and get ready.

Do not fry these shrimp, they will be like rubber in consistency.

Grilled peppers — To fry the prawns you need high heat, always preheat the pan well. Coated pan or iron pan, that remains a matter of philosophy and equipment in the own kitchen.

3.3 Prepare Vegetables for Skewers

Next, in a pot of salted water blanch vegetables. Suitable are, for example.

–> Small broccoli florets
–> Small cauliflower florets
–> Carrot slices
–> Mushrooms. I took Mu Err mushrooms, please soak them only in water and then use them directly.

4. Marinate and Fry Prawn Skewers

Before marinating the shrimp skewers, place the wooden skewers in cold water for 10 minutes.

Then the skewers will not burn if you prepare the prawns later in the pan, in the oven or on the grill.

Place the prepared ingredients on the skewers (see photo) and then place them on a plate.

You can now chill the shrimp skewers again and finish them for dinner.

For the Mariande, mix olive oil or vegetable oil with thyme (Mediterranean) or coriander (Asian), chilli and finely chopped garlic, salt, pepper and sugar and spread on the skewers.

The exact quantities of the ingredients are shown on the bottom of the recipe page.

Marinate the shrimp skewers just before frying, grilling or heating.

You can put shrimps on wooden skewers, on metal skewers, on lemon grass or on rosemary twigs.
The last two variants flavor the dish wonderfully!
Tip from Chef Thomas Sixt

The prepared shrimp skewers can now, well prepared and marinated, either fry them briefly in a pan, or place them on the grill, or heat them up in the preheated oven at 230°C in the hot air stage.

This only takes about 8 minutes and your side dishes should be ready by then.