Shrimp is a popular material in Vietnam cuisine and there are many delicious dishes that made from shrimp. Today, we will see how to cook braised shrimps with coconut meat.

Ingredients:

300g of Black tiger shrimp

1 small piece of Coconut meat (50 – 100g)

Dried onion, salt, sugar, fish sauce and spring onion

Process:

Step 1: Cut and remove the legs & beards but keep the skin attach as well as its mud (if applicable). Wash it with light salt water then let it dry naturally.

Step 2: Peel off the Coconut skin (the brown one) and then clean and slice it.

Step 3: Heat up with 2 coffee spoons of cooking oil (if you are using shrimps without mud, you may substitute vegetable cooking oil with cashew nut oil so that the colour can be beautiful), fried the dried onions, pour the shrimps and its mud into the pan and stir fry, add 2 coffee spoons of fish sauce, 1 spoon of sugar, salt then use the chopsticks to stir and mix them up.

Step 4: Continue adding the coconut meat in and braise with the shrimps, cook with small heat. Be careful at this step if you want to succeed this recipe from our Vietnamese Food Recipes. Sometimes, you can add a little bit of fresh coconut juice in. Adjust the taste.

Step 5: Braise from 15 to 20 minutes, turn off the stove and sprinkle some minced spring onions in.