Recipes don't always go to plan
I'm trying to keep motivated and be healthy by only eating things I actually want to eat and rather than depriving myself - just making better choices. As it's a weekend, it means I can actually cook something for lunch, rather than buy a sandwich or bring something to work that I'd prepared beforehand.
Today was 'prawn pad Thai omelette' a recipe I found in a BBC Good Food Magazine a while ago - It looks amazing, no?
It was easy to do... I had to make the sauce which was (for 2 people):
1 tsp tamarind paste
1 tbsp fish sauce
1 tbsp caster / palm sugar (either is fine)
1/4 tsp shrimp paste
I then grated an inch of ginger, half a red chilli and a garlic clove and left them on the side.
I then cut up a raw carrot, 1/4 of a cucumber, 3 spring onions length ways, half a pepper and got some frozen prawns out of the freezer.
So...got a pan and some spray oil.... chucked in the pepper and the ginger / chilli and garlic and fried it for about 3 minutes. I then chucked in the prawns and the sauce and once I'd fried them for another 2 minutes, added 50 grams of beansprouts and merrily tossed everything about for another 2 minutes.
Once done, I popped it all on a plate, then got 2 eggs, whisked them around and put them in the same frying pan to make the pancake - once it was cooked, I took the pancake out, popped it on a plate and put the cooked mixture on top and sprinkled with peanuts.
Yeeeeaaaaah.
Not exactly the same as the picture!
I'm trying to keep motivated and be healthy by only eating things I actually want to eat and rather than depriving myself - just making better choices. As it's a weekend, it means I can actually cook something for lunch, rather than buy a sandwich or bring something to work that I'd prepared beforehand.
Today was 'prawn pad Thai omelette' a recipe I found in a BBC Good Food Magazine a while ago - It looks amazing, no?
1 tsp tamarind paste
1 tbsp fish sauce
1 tbsp caster / palm sugar (either is fine)
1/4 tsp shrimp paste
I then grated an inch of ginger, half a red chilli and a garlic clove and left them on the side.
I then cut up a raw carrot, 1/4 of a cucumber, 3 spring onions length ways, half a pepper and got some frozen prawns out of the freezer.
So...got a pan and some spray oil.... chucked in the pepper and the ginger / chilli and garlic and fried it for about 3 minutes. I then chucked in the prawns and the sauce and once I'd fried them for another 2 minutes, added 50 grams of beansprouts and merrily tossed everything about for another 2 minutes.
Once done, I popped it all on a plate, then got 2 eggs, whisked them around and put them in the same frying pan to make the pancake - once it was cooked, I took the pancake out, popped it on a plate and put the cooked mixture on top and sprinkled with peanuts.
Not exactly the same as the picture!
Where did I go wrong? Well... I thought I had halved the recipe as it was for 2 people and there's just me - However I think I overdid it on the raw veg.
Secondly - I didn't whisk the eggs enough, which meant there were patches of yellow and patches of white - this proved very tricky to actually lift it from the pan!
Despite this - I have to be honest - It actually tasted really nice and the sauce was lovely - I won't give up on this recipe, I'll just need to try and get the amounts correct and try again - either way, it was pretty healthy so better than buying a sandwich :-)
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