One Fine Day » Prawns http://www.onefineday.info Food, Recipes, Cooking Sat, 29 May 2010 18:37:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Pasta with Prawns, Lemon, Chilli and Spinach http://www.onefineday.info/2009/08/pasta-with-prawns-lemon-chilli-and-spinach/ http://www.onefineday.info/2009/08/pasta-with-prawns-lemon-chilli-and-spinach/#comments Tue, 04 Aug 2009 07:51:04 +0000 Sarah http://www.onefineday.info/?p=13 Recently, I realised that my public library has cookbooks and food magazines. I still don’t get how I could miss that for months, but ever since I’ve been heading over there, it’s just across the street from my office, during lunch, flicking through magazines and books. I always felt kind of bad buying new books and magazines all the time, having hundreds of recipes that haven’t been cooked yet at home, plenty of cookbooks that have rarely been touched and a 100 meter long ‘to cook’ list from all the great online resources.

But now, without feeling bad, I can take books and magazines I like home, look at the beautiful photos, get inspired, cook the nice things and bring them back. It’s not the same – I know. But for me it’s a way out of my guilt without missing all the fun…

The recipe I’d like to share with you today is super easy and not rocket science, you probably wouldn’t even need a recipe for it. But for me, sometimes, it’s all about inspiration. Seeing some delicious prawns there, reading about citrus fruits here and having a craving for pasta. And that’s what comes out of it. Enjoy. I hope you like it.

Pasta with Prawns, Lemon, Chilli and Spinach.

Serves: 2 – 3

Ingredients:

250 g pasta
1 clove of garlic
1 red chilli, fresh
100 g cherry tomatoes
1 tbsp olive oil
1 lemon
400 g prawns
50 g baby spinach
30 g parmesan
Sea salt
Black pepper

Directions:

  1. Cook your pasta in a large pot of well-salted water.
  2. Crush garlic, deseed chilli and chop finely, cut tomatoes in half.
  3. Shortly before pasta is ready, place olive oil and garlic in large saucepan over medium heat.
  4. As soon as garlic starts to sizzle (ca. 30 seconds), add chilli and stir for 1 minute until fragrant.
  5. Add tomatoes and cook for a further minute until tomatoes start to break down.
  6. Add lemon zest, juice and prawns and heat prawns through for 2 minutes.
  7. Drain pasta and add to prawn pan, add baby spinach and mix well.
  8. Divide among serving bowls and top with grated parmesan and some sea salt and black pepper.
]]> http://www.onefineday.info/2009/08/pasta-with-prawns-lemon-chilli-and-spinach/feed/ 0 Rocket & Prosciutto, Prawns and Spinach & Feta Pizza http://www.onefineday.info/2009/04/rocket-prosciutto-prawns-and-spinach-feta-pizza/ http://www.onefineday.info/2009/04/rocket-prosciutto-prawns-and-spinach-feta-pizza/#comments Sun, 26 Apr 2009 08:11:06 +0000 Sarah http://www.onefineday.info/?p=36 Saturday morning. We just had breakfast but I was already thinking about dinner. As it was weekend and we had plenty of time, I wanted to make something delicious. So I looked through my ‘To cook’ list for inspriation and after a while we chose a promising looking Roti Chicken Curry.

In the afternoon we strolled through the city and ended up in a bookstore. 3 minutes later I was sitting in front of plenty of cookbooks. It’s always the same…

And suddenly I knew: I don’t want Roti Chicken Curry, I want Pizza. A moment later Stefan joined me with photography and computer books and, without me saying a single word, asked for Pizza tonight. That is my man…

So we made Pizza. Three different kinds. They were so delicious.

Pizza dough.

Serves: 2 Pizzas

Ingredients:

300 g standard flour
180 ml water, lukewarm
1 tsp dry yeast
1 tsp salt
2 tsp olive oil

Directions:

  1. Mix flour and salt in a large bowl.
  2. Mix yeast and some of the water and allow to rest for 10 minutes.
  3. Add yeast and water to flour and knead for about 8 minutes (KitchenAid, Dough hook, Level 2).
  4. After 3 minutes add olive oil.
  5. Take dough out of the bowl, place on floured surface and knead for 2 minutes by hand. Divide dough in two parts, cover with dry cotton cloth and let rest for about 30 minutes.
  6. Bake at 250°C for 10 minutes.

Tomato sauce.

Serves: 2 Pizzas

Ingredients:

300 g crushed tomatoes
1 tsp ground paprika
1 tsp oregano, dried
1 tsp basil, dried
1/2 tsp salt

1/2 tsp black pepper

1/4 tsp red chilli, dried

Directions:

  1. Mix all ingredients and spread on pizza.

We had three different kind of Pizza: Rocket and Prosciutto, Prawn and Spinach and Feta. That’s what you will need. I won’t go in the detail of directions as I trust you guys are more than capable of topping a Pizza.

Topping: Rocket and Prosciutto.

Serves: 1 Pizza

Ingredients:

10 cherry tomatoes, cut in halves
50 g mozzarella, sliced
100 g prosciutto
50 g rocket
30 g parmesan, shaved
Black pepper

Topping: Prawn.

Serves: 1 Pizza

Ingredients:

10 cherry tomatoes, cut in halves
50 g mozzarella, sliced
100 g prawns, marinated in fresh chilli, garlic, ginger and olive oil
1/2 red onion, sliced
Black pepper

Topping: Spinach and Feta.

Serves: 1 Pizza

Ingredients:

10 cherry tomatoes, cut in halves
50 g baby spinach
50 g feta, diced
20 g sunflower seeds
Black pepper

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