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Chilled Drunken sesame Prawns

Prep 15 mins / Cook 6 mins (plus overnight marinating) / Serves 6 -8

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Prep 15 mins / Cook 6 mins (plus overnight marinating) / Serves 6 -8

•20 medium-sized prawns •2 tbsps wolfberries

WINE MARINADE (prepare a day ahead) • 5 cups shao hsing wine (or any good, fragant white or yellow wine) •2 tbsps Chee Seng 100% Pure White Sesame Oil • 5 slices pineapple, cut into bite-sized cubes • Salt and sugar, and Chee Seng 100% Pure White Sesame Oil, to taste

1 Pour wine and Chee Seng 100% Pure White Sesame Oil into a deep bowl. Add pineapple. Adjust to taste with salt and sugar, if you like. Cover bowl and keep chilled in the fridge overnight.

2 Wash the prawns. Trim away the feelers. Blanch prawns with wolfberries, in a pan of boiling water for 6 to 8 mins, or till prawns are just cooked.

3 Remove prawns and wolfberries from pan. Plunge them into the chilled wine marinade.

4 Add more wine, or light stock to cover the prawns. Adjust to taste with more salt, if you like. Keep in fridge to chill overnight, covered.

5 Serve prawns cold, with an extra drizzle of Chee Seng 100% Pure White Sesame Oil.

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