Perfect fresh cooked prawns - Real Recipes from Mums (2024)

Serves 4
10 minutes
Difficulty Easy
4 Ingredients

By mle00

December 18, 2014

44 Comments

I can’timagine Christmas without a beautiful big platter of fresh cooked prawns served with lemon and a lovely seafood sauce! Bliss.

Ingredients (serves 4)

1kg Green prawns
1/2 cup Rock salt
1 bag Ice
1 glass/ bottle Beer, wine or cider

Method

Fill a large heavy bottomed saucepan with water and bring to the boil, throw in 1/2 the salt and return to the boil.
Fill a large bowl or small clean sink with cold water and 1/2 the ice and remaining salt.
Throw in your prawns and crack your beer, cider or wine.
Drink your beer as your prawns boil for no longer than 1 1/2 minutes, prawns will float and change colour when they are done, for small prawns reduce this time and for larger ones increase it slightly!
Using a slotted spoon scoop out your prawns and throw them directly into the salted ice water, this will stop the cooking process.

Notes

There is nothing worse than an overcooked prawn, make sure your water is violently boiling when you put them in!

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- - meedee said
  - 25 Nov 2021
    11:23 am
Does it still work if you use wine instead of the beer?
Guess I will have to try both methods to see

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- - mom276257 said
  - 20 Nov 2017
    4:22 pm
It could be the ice-salt bath after they’re cooked.
My brother and I netted about 20 kg at lakes entrance, Victory Aust .
I’ve cooked prawns a fair while now,/ about 34years.
NEVER USED THE SALT IN THE ICE BATH BEFORE, BUT “WOW”
The best prawns i,ve cooked.
So as long as it’s not the bear to kg ratio / 20kg to 20bears.
I’m definitely using the method again.
THANKS
ALF

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- - coastalkaryn said
  - 21 Jan 2017
    11:00 am
is the beer for drinking LOL

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- - youngoldlady said
  - 30 Nov 2016
    10:44 pm
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With luck have plenty of prawns for Christmas and we can have some fun eating them.

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- - Melissa89 said
  - 29 Jul 2016
    11:02 pm
I absolutely love prawns!

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- - mom165081 said
  - 11 Feb 2016
    12:53 am
I love cooking and eating fresh prawns. Cooking them well is so important. Great tips – especially the ice plunge.

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- - ella12 said
  - 05 Jan 2016
    2:15 pm
Thanks so much for the article.

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- - mom64736 said
  - 03 Jan 2016
    1:04 am
Won’t the meat seize up if it goes from very boiling water to ice water?

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- - mom134803 said
  - 24 Dec 2015
    3:21 am
Think I’ll be never able to eat prawns !

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- - mom101628 said
  - 22 Dec 2015
    10:24 pm
So easy and so simple – the only thing that would beat this is if you caught your own prawns!

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- - mom94378 said
  - 06 Nov 2015
    9:25 pm
Thanks so much for this, with summer around the corner these tips will be very handy.

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- - JessyJade190490 said
  - 03 Nov 2015
    11:48 am
Awesome =D Thanks!! Have been too scared to try and cook fresh prawns, but this puts it nice and simple. Sounds easy as! Thanks heaps for sharing this one!!

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- - mom113055 said
  - 21 Sep 2015
    1:43 pm
chritmas with prawns

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- - mom113055 said
  - 19 Sep 2015
    9:33 pm
cooked prawns

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- - am1979amanda said
  - 18 Jun 2015
    11:34 pm
Yummy will try this thanks great recipe

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