Nah, the prawns are cooked in the recipe and the dish is traditionally brought to the table still sizzling in one of those little brown tapas bowls. Just a thought, though: half the joy of the dish is mopping up the juices as well as eating the prawns. That really needs bread, which is carbs. You'd have to do a deal with your friend: you get the prawns, they get the juices. In fact, in Spain that did kind of happen, as my sis can't stand prawns in her mouth but was more than happy to snaffle up the juices! The downside is that she got more than her share of the juices....