🇪🇸 How to Make Gambas al Ajillo

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🛒 Ingredients

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• 250g raw prawns, peeled
• 6 cloves garlic, sliced thin
• 1 dried red chilli, crumbled
• 4 tbsp olive oil
• a splash of dry sherry or lemon juice
• chopped parsley
• salt

👩‍🍳 Method

1. Dry the prawns thoroughly on kitchen paper. Wet prawns steam instead of sizzling.
2. Warm the oil with the garlic and chilli from cold, over medium heat. Let the garlic go pale gold, never brown.
3. Turn the heat to high, add the prawns and salt, and cook 90 seconds a side.
4. Splash in the sherry, let it bubble away for 30 seconds.
5. Parsley over the top, straight to the table in the pan.
6. Bread is not optional. The oil is the actual point of the dish.