Recipe: Appetizing Cereal Prawns

Cereal Prawns. Cereal Prawn (aka 麦片虾) is a constant favourite in many restaurants or zi char stalls in Singapore. People love them, so do we for the simple reason that they're so sinfully satisfying. Butter cereal prawns are a quintessential dish Chinese restaurants here in Singapore.

I suddenly thought of making cereal prawns (麦片虾) because I still have a whole bag of leftover curry leaves after cooking vegetable curry. Cereal butter prawns with crispy oatmeal topping to substitute for Nestum cereal. It's crispy and most definitely not soggy. You can cook Cereal Prawns using 8 ingredients and 2 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Cereal Prawns

1. It’s 1 cup of cereal.
2. Prepare 1 tbsp of milk powder.
3. Prepare To taste of salt.
4. It’s To taste of pepper.
5. It’s 3 tbsp of white sugar.
6. Prepare As needed of butter.
7. You need 1 of egg.
8. It’s As needed of flour.

We love this Cereal Nestum Prawns recipe! It's so delicious and so easy to make. Crispy Cereal Butter Prawns, more popularly known as 麦片虾 (Mai Pian Xia) in Zi Char stalls, is a Kids love the cereal coating that goes on the prawns! Highly addictive, pour some on plain-tasting.

Cereal Prawns step by step

1. Coat the shrimp with egg and flour to fry and set aside.
2. Sautee butter, 1 Table spoon of milk powder, 1cup of cereal, salt, pepper, and 3 T white sugar.

These Cereal Butter Prawns are life changing. Cereal prawns must be the weirdest dish ever invented by the Cze Char Chef! Just imagine trying to tell a Westerner about a wonderful dish made with breakfast cereal and prawns! Mention this Cereal Butter Prawn to Singaporeans and Malaysians and they will tell you how The deep-fried prawn is then mixed in with the cereal mixture. This combination is AMAZINGLY good. 🍳 We took the cereal prawn dish that we all love so much, and recreated it into a #CerealslyGood snack.