Thai Recipe : Sweet and Sour Shrimps

This dish in Thai is called Pad Preow Wan Goong

Serves 4

Ingredients:

• 2 tbsp vegetable oil
  
• 1 clove garlic, chopped
  
• 2 oz pineapple, diced
  
• 1 tomato, diced
  
• ½ cucumber, diced
  
• 1 tsp lemon juice
  
• 1 tbsp sugar
  
• 1 1/2 tbsp fish sauce
  
• 1 tbsp oyster sauce
  
• 2 tbsp bottled tomato sauce (ketchup)
  
• 3 tbsp chicken Thai Soup Stock or water
  
• 6 ½ oz large green shrimps, peeled, deveined, with tails intact
  
• 2 scallions, cut into ¾ inch piece
  
• 1 onion, sliced

1. Heat oil in a wok. Stir fry garlic until golden. Add pineapple, tomato, cucumber, lemon juice, sugar and fish, oyster and tomato sauces. Stir until mixture turns golden.
2. Pour in stock. Simmer for 1 minute. Stir, then add shrimps. Cook shrimps until pink and tender, adding a little more water if necessary. Taste to see if more lemon juice, sugar or fish sauce is required to balance flavors.
3. Just before serving, stir in scallions and onion. Cook for 1 minute. Serve with rice.