Prawns with cashew nuts

I wanted to cook something light for lunch and I thought this was the perfect dish - prawns with cashew nuts from Heartymeals by Mrs Leong Yee Soo. Although I'm now a big fan of Mrs Leong, I don't care for her MSG ingredient. Those were the days when mothers would add MSG to every dish. I would never add MSG to something I cook. But I don't avoid it like I avoid coconut. MSG just makes me thirsty, it doesn't give me migraine like coconut.

I notice that Mrs Leong is also fond of using corn flour. I'm not so sure if I like corn flour - all sticky. I added snow peas and baby corn to the dish because I was late and didn't have time to cook the veg separately.


The snow peas were crunchy!

Verdict:
Everyone loves it.
Son hates any kind of nuts.

Postmortem:
Don't use corn flour next time.
Don't give son any of the nuts.

Prawn Fritters

My girl and I love prawn fritters and if we could, we would just eat them all day. I told my girl that I would look for the recipe for prawn fritters batter and I found it in Singapore Heritage Food by Sylvia Tan.

I really wanted to get this recipe right because my girl would definitely compare it to her grandmother's prawn fritters.

Okay, cooking prawn fritters is hard work. The frying is hot and scary. I'm so afraid of the oil scalding me. I used my Meyer stainless steel wok to fry the prawns. What a big mistake. The fritters stuck like glue to the bottom of the wok. I had to change to my Scanpan non-stick wok. This is such a great wok. It can do anything. I've had it for 2 years.




Golden prawn fritters


This is how we eat it - brown/white rice, broccoli, chilli/ketchup sauce.

Verdict:
My husband said they were good but they needed to be eaten as part of a big feast of other food. Hmm.
My boy was okay with it. He managed to eat 4 and he doesn't really like prawns.
My girl said they were too salty and told me she preferred her grandmother's prawn fritters.
I did find the fritters too salty but ate too many to care.

Postmortem:
Use very little salt next time.

Chilli Prawns

I like a little chilli now and then. Unfortunately I'm one of those people whose sinus gets drained after eating chilli. In fact, whenever my nose gets blocked, I just eat something spicy and .....


Here are my ingredients for my chilli prawns. Onions, capsicum and 1 tablespoon of ground chilli mixed with a little water into paste. The capsicum is not too appropriate but I wanted to use it up.


I stir-fried the onions in my WMF stainless steel frying pan until fragrant. Next I added the chilli paste and stir-fry quickly before it starts to splutter. I add the prawns and cook till it turns pink. I add the capsicum before the prawns get fully cooked.


You can't really tell but the prawns are really large.


This is how we eat it - with mixed white/brown rice and chye sim(okay, not too sure if it's chye sim) cooked in seafood soup.

Verdict:
My kids say - not enough chilli!

Postmortem:
Don't hold back the chilli.