Prawn & Asparagus With Spicy Sauce

• 7/8 pound prawns shelled& deveined
• 2 asparagus bunchs, cut lengthwise into 3 parts
• 3 shallots thinly sliced
• 3 teaspoons garlic cloves 1 1/2 garlic paste
• 1 teaspoon ginger cm thick, 1/4 ginger paste
• 3 leaves kaffir, lime leaves
• 1 1/2 teaspoons chillies crushed fresh
• 1 teaspoon fish sauce
• 1/2 juice from lime
• brown sugar to taste

1. Blanched asparagus with a little salt. Set aside.
2. Pound together ginger & garlic with a little salt to form a paste. Skip this step if you used ginger & garlic paste from the jar.
3. Heat wok with 2 tbps of oil on medium flame.
4. Once the oil is heated, add shallots and saute until golden brown.
5. Add ginger, garlic paste and kaffir leaves and saute until aromatic.
6. Turn down the flame to low, stir in chilli paste, fish sauce into the wok mixture to combine. Cook on lowest possible flame for 1 minute or until the oil separates from the sauce. (Please be careful of the splattering oil as you add in the chilli paste & fish sauce).
7. Stir in prawns to coat with the mixture.

prawns, bunchs, shallots, garlic, ginger, lime leaves, fresh, fish sauce, lime, brown sugar

Taken from www.yummly.com/recipe/Prawn-_-Asparagus-With-Spicy-Sauce-1669053 (may not work)