Butter Garlic Prawns

Freshness is the key.
1. Just halve 1 kilo or 2 lbs of prawns and make sure you clean out the veins or entrails and trim off some of the appendages.
2. Clarify 2 sticks of butter to cover all the prawns when you bake them.
3. Mix with the clarified butter finely chopped 10 cloves of garlic and if you're a garlic person you may add some more.
4. Preheat the oven at 350'F.
5. Place all the prawns in a baking dish (preferably a clear Pyrex so that you may see the shrimps from the bottom) and season with salt and freshly ground pepper.
6. Cover the prawns with the butter and garlic mixture. You may add freshly chopped flat leaf parsley or cilantro.
7. Bake the prawns in the oven and once they turn red they’re done and if there are no more gray areas on the prawns.

To serve, scatter some shredded iceberg lettuce on a platter and surround with lemon wedges. Place the prawns on the bed of lettuce and spoon some of the garlic butter on top. Garnish with chopped flat leaf parsley or cilantro. For the dip you may use any condiment you wish (melted butter, lemon wedges, cocktail sauce...etc.)