Ingredients:

• Prawns, deveined & cleaned, medium size 500 gms (with or without tails, up to you)
• Garlic cloves, thin diagonally cut slices, 10-12
• Black pepper, coarsely crushed, 1 tsp or to taste
• Tabasco sauce, 1 tsp (optional)
• Butter, 1 ½ tbsp (Salted or Unsalted, up to you)
• Olive Oil, 1 ½  tbsp
• Corn starch, 1-2 tbsp
• Salt, to taste

Instructions:

Wash and clean the prawns. Pat dry and put them in a bowl. Sprinkle corn starch on the prawns and keep them aside for 15-20 minutes. Just before cooking, wash the corn starch off the prawns and pat dry.

Heat butter & oil in a large flat pan. Add chopped garlic and sauté for a couple of minutes on low flame. Add prawns, black pepper powder, Tabasco sauce and salt. Stir and cook for 4-5 minutes without the lid on so that prawns cook in their own water and water is reduced to minimum. Done!

Notes:

• Add a little more oil, butter, a few dried or fresh herbs; mix in freshly cooked spaghetti and Voila!!! a quick meal taken care of !!
• If you want cleaner looking dish or should I say no so rustic looking dish, finely grind the black pepper and finely chop the garlic...though IMO, it takes the fun away from fighting over the crisped up garlic

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