Salt and Pepper Prawns

A simple dish of green prawns dusted in rice flour, deep fried until golden, then seasoned with salt, pepper and chillies. The sea salt, Sichuan peppercorns and dried red chillies were dry roasted and ground until fine in a mortar and pestle. Once cooked the prawns were tossed in the salt and pepper mix. As they were still hot and slightly oily quite a lot of the mixture stuck to the prawns and unfortunately they ended up being so salty that they were unpleasant to eat (and made you very thirsty!!!). And I like salt! It sounded and looked like such a delicious dinner that it was very disappointing. If I were to make it again I wouldn't "toss" the prawns in the mix but instead sprinkle the mix over.

Rating 2 out of 10.