18. Succulent Prawns Cooked With Chilli And Tomato Sauce

Wanted to cook turmeric prawn at BIL’s house but forgot to buy the turmeric powder! My MIL made fun of me =P
Made chilli and tomato sauce prawn instead. Simple yet tasty! Takes 5 minutes to prepare and 10 minutes to cook.

Ingredients: (Serves 4)
20 pieces of big, fresh water prawns
6 shallots
3 cloves of garlic
1cm ginger
2 bird’s eye chillies
6 tbsp chilli sauce
4 tbsp tomato sauce
2 tbsp oil
¼ cup of water
Salt and sugar

Method:

1. Using the scissors, clean the prawns by cutting the legs and the front portion of the head, discarding the eyes the antennas. Put aside
2. Thinly slice the shallots and garlic
3. Peel the ginger
4. Lightly crush bird’s eye chillies with a pestle
5. In a wok, heat 2 tbsp oil under medium heat
6. Sauté the shallots, garlic, ginger and chillies until they brown
7. Pour the chilli and tomato sauce. Let them simmer for 3 minutes and add the water
8. Add prawns into the sauce and stir well for 2 minutes
9. Add salt and sugar to taste
10. Keep stirring until the prawns turn to a pink colour (denoting that it’s cooked)
11. Serve with white rice ;)
    

17. Couscous with Salad

Another variation of couscous I made last month.

Ingredients: (Serves 4)
For couscous:
200 gm couscous
One huge knob of butter - about 20gm - softened at room temperature
200ml of hot chicken stock (~98°C) (Amount of liquid differs according to the couscous brand. Make sure you check the preparation method stated on the couscous box)

For salad:
3 salad leaves
½ tomato
½ sweet onion
¼ cucumber (you may use courgette for a crispier texture)
5 pitted black olives
2 tbsp olive oil
½ tsp of McCormick Italian Herbs Mix
Salt and pepper

Method:

1. Prepare couscous as per recipe #16. Put aside
2. Cut the salad into long strips. Dice the tomato, olives and cucumber
3. Julienne the onion
4. Combine the salad, tomato, olives, cucumber and onion into a bowl. Add in the olive oil, herb mix, salt and pepper
5. Toss the ingredients for about half a minute or until all vegetables are well coated with the aromatics and olive oil
6. Combine the tossed ingredient with the coucous. Stir well
7. Ready to serve