In a bid to stop eating out all the time and wasting money on junk food, I've recently started cooking a lot more. I thought it would be a good idea to start sharing recipes that I've made up/discovered. I used to be such a bad cook but now... move over Nigella!
I thought I'd start by showing you how to make a delicious Chinese prawn dish. I'm obsessed with prawns at the moment. This is super easy to make and it's really tasty!
Prawns in hoisin sauce with noodles
INGREDIENTS
-Packet of peeled prawns (I bought two because I was feeding an army)
-A handful of button mushrooms (sliced)
-A handful of mangetout or sugar snap peas*
-5 cloves of garlic (minced)
-1 chilli (chopped)
-Half an onion (chopped)
-Packet of rice noodles
*You can add whatever vegetables you like e.g. cabbage, red peppers, yellow peppers etc
***Ingredients for the marinade to go over the prawns***
-1 inch of ginger, peeled and thinly sliced
-2 tablespoons of olive oil
-3 tablespoons on hoisin sauce
-2 tablespoons of soy sauce (I used reduced salt soy sauce)
-Half of your minced garlic
-A teaspoon of sugar
How to make it.
-Wash prawns and put them into a bowl.
-Mix the marinade ingredients into another bowl then pour them on top of the prawns. Leave them in there for 20-40mins (The longer you leave them the more flavour the prawns will have)
-Grab a wok and turn the heat on your stove to medium/high and drizzle some oil into the wok.
- Once the oil is hot put the onions, chilli and the rest of the minced garlic into the wok and stir.
- When you see the onions and garlic are turning brown add in the marinaded prawns and stir frequently till prawns are cooked.
-Once prawns are cooked add in the mushrooms and mangetout/sugar snap peas and stir in for 5 minutes.
-I bought noodles that were already cooked in a packet so I just put them into the wok and cooked through for about 5 minutes.
THEN VOILA! FOOD IS DONE!
*You can serve with rice if you like.*
Comment below and tell me how you did! Also let me know if you think this is a feature I should carry on with. I have another prawn dish I could show you guys how to make if you like?
GOOD LUCK!
