15-minute Chinese Orange & Sesame Prawns

These quick and easy Chinese prawns are cooked in a sweet, tangy orange sauce before being served with fluffy Jasmine rice and a pile of sesame pak choi.

📝 Ingredients

• 3 tbsp runny honey
• 2 tbsp soy sauce
• 4 tsp Chinese rice wine vinegar
• 2 tsp toasted sesame oil
• 1 orange (1/2 zest, whole juice)
• 1 1/2 tbsp cornflour
• 2 tsp Furikake (see note, or toasted sesame seeds)
• pinch five spice powder
• 1 x 250g (9 oz) frozen raw king prawns, defrosted
• 1 large spring onion
• 1 tbsp light oil
• jasmine rice, to serve
• baby pak choi, to serve

👨‍🍳 Instructions

1. 1Prepare and cook the pak choi and Jasmine rice.
2. 2To make the stir fry sauce, whisk together the honey, soy sauce, rice wine vinegar, toasted sesame oil, the juice of the orange and half its zest. Set aside.
3. 3Combine the cornflour, Furikake or sesame seeds and a pinch of five spice powder in a small shallow bowl. Pat the prawns dry and with a sharp knife butterfly them down their spines to give them a larger surface area for the sauce to cling. Toss them in the cornflour mixture and set aside.
4. 4Prepare the spring onions by either trimming them and finely slicing them, or by shredding them and making curls in a bowl of ice water. Set aside.
5. 5To cook the prawns, heat the oil in a medium non-stick frying pan over a high heat. Add the prawns and toss around the pan until they’ve separated. Once they’ve coloured on one side add the sauce, cooking on high for a further minute or two until the sauce is thick and sticky, and the prawns have only just cooked through. Serve immediately with the Jasmine rice, pak choi, and sprinkled with spring onion pieces.