Sweet and Sour Prawns/Shrimp

• 1 12 tablespoons sugar
• 5 teaspoons soy sauce
• 3 tablespoons Chinese white rice vinegar (or cider vinegar)
• 1 14 tablespoons tomato paste
• 2 tablespoons shaoxing rice wine (or dry sherry or sherry wine)
• 1 tablespoon cornflour (corn starch)
• 2 tablespoons water (to mix with cornflour)
• 1 12 tablespoons peanut oil
• 3 garlic cloves (finely chopped)
• 1 piece ginger (2 cm finely chopped)
• 1 spring onion (finely sliced, original recipe called for 4)
• 500 g prawns (green or raw peeled and deveined, I removed tails)
• 1 carrot (peeled and julienned)
• 12 red capsicum (bell pepper)
• 12 green capsicum (bell pepper)
• 2 chilies (I used small red deseeded and julienned)
• 1 chili (I used small red finely sliced seeds as well)

1. SAUCE - combine all the sauce ingredients in a jug and set aside.
2. Heat a wok over a high heat and add oil and when the wok begins to smoke a little add garlic, ginger, chillies and spring onions tossing with a metal spatula for 20 seconds.
3. Add prawns, carrot and capsicum and continue to cook for 1 minutes and then pour in the sauce and simmer for 3 to 5 minutes or until slightly thickens and then serve immediately with steamed or fried rice.

sugar, soy sauce, chinese white rice vinegar, tomato paste, rice wine, cornflour, water, peanut oil, garlic, ginger, spring onion, carrot, red, green, chilies, chili

Taken from www.food.com/recipe/sweet-and-sour-prawns-shrimp-499750 (may not work)