10 minute spicy coconut Noodles - 2
- Chilli
- Garlic
- Ginger
- Lime
- Coconut milk
- Tomatoes
- Noodles
- Fresh Coriander
- Spinach or bok choy. Just a tiny bit, blast in hot water and add to the pestle and mortar. Takes some of the sharp bite out.
In Brief:
In parallel to the below, you need to cook some noodles. Heat the water, throw the noodles in when you add the stuff to the frying pan.
- Throw all ingredients except noodles and coconut milk into a pestle and morter.
- Add some oil (I use olive oil)
- Bash about until a coarse paste
- Throw a glug of oil into a pan, medium heat
- Add bashed up ingredients
- heat until oil is clear and it smells good
- Add the coconut milk.
- Add the Noodles, top up with hot water if necessary (might get too gloopy)
- Stir
- Put into bowl
- Mniam Mnaim.
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| make chilli mix as before |
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| heat up add coconut |
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| wop in the noodles too |
6:37 AM
10 minute Spicy Coconut Noodles
Super easy and super quick, mega tasty 10 minute coconut noodles.
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| Chilli Noodles |
- Chilli
- Garlic
- Ginger
- Lime
- Coconut milk
- Tomatoes
- Noodles
- Fresh Coriander
- Spinach or bok choy. Just a tiny bit, blast in hot water and add to the pestle and mortar. Takes some of the sharp bite out.
In Brief:
In parallel to the below, you need to cook some noodles. Heat the water, throw the noodles in when you add the stuff to the frying pan.
- Throw all ingredients except noodles and coconut milk into a pestle and morter.
- Add some oil (I use olive oil)
- Bash about until a coarse paste
- Throw a glug of oil into a pan, medium heat
- Add bashed up ingredients
- heat until oil is clear and it smells good
- Add the coconut milk.
- Stir
- Noodles probably done now, drain, throw into pan.
- Put into bowl
- Mniam Mnaim.
Some Blab di bla:
Remember to increase the amount of chilli, the coconut milk will take the punch out if you put in your normal amount. I double the chilli. And back off the lime, I prefer it with half as much lime as Id use without coconut. The sharp biting flavour clashes too much with the coconut otherwise. Adding something like spinach or bok choy works well (about half a handful, ish per person).
The idea with stuff like this is to mix it up a bit and experiment. Try cooking the noodles in the sauce - or cook the noodles in some broth and make noodle soup.
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| Throw it in, bash it up |
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| until it looks like this |
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| Squirt of lime |
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| squishy |
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| wop it in the pan |
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| add the coconut milk |
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| Done |
6:29 AM
Secret ingredient roast potatoes
Bit of lucky one, but one I want to remember.
When doing oven roast potatoes, about 15-20 mins before you take them out, you want to burn on a bit of salty chilly crunch.
Mix in a glass, olive oil (lots), soy sauce, garlic (fresh or dried granules , herbs (basil, oregano, thyme), chilli (seeds, dried), Worcester sauce.
Pour over, and it forms a mega yum crunch layer, you want to to burn slightly.
6:15 AM
Kiwi and Tomato sauce
This is simply awesome. The bitter/sweet kiwi flavour goes really well the the chili and soy sauce.
This was just a random idea, this one actually came out well. The main flavours here should be Kiwi, Tomato, Chili, Soy Sauce, Red wine. The soy sauce should come through, the chili has to be punchy.
Approximate ingredients:
1xkiwi
1xTin of tomatoes
Soy sauce
wourcester sauce
chillis (fresh)
garlic
herbs (in any forms, basil, oregano and others to compliment)
onion
Red wine.
veg stock cube.
Peel & slice the kiwi - not too thin, chop the onion. Add the herbs - dont let them burn! NOT the veg stock cube
Wop the onion in a pan, fry as per usual, add in chillis, when done add in the kiwi
Add the soy sauce, worcester sauce and red wine, let it reduce slightly, then chuck in the tomatoes.
The soy sauce flavour should come through, so dont be shy!
throw in the stock cube.
Eat with pasta.
I'll add some pictures when I make it again :-)
This was just a random idea, this one actually came out well. The main flavours here should be Kiwi, Tomato, Chili, Soy Sauce, Red wine. The soy sauce should come through, the chili has to be punchy.
Approximate ingredients:
1xkiwi
1xTin of tomatoes
Soy sauce
wourcester sauce
chillis (fresh)
garlic
herbs (in any forms, basil, oregano and others to compliment)
onion
Red wine.
veg stock cube.
Peel & slice the kiwi - not too thin, chop the onion. Add the herbs - dont let them burn! NOT the veg stock cube
Wop the onion in a pan, fry as per usual, add in chillis, when done add in the kiwi
Add the soy sauce, worcester sauce and red wine, let it reduce slightly, then chuck in the tomatoes.
The soy sauce flavour should come through, so dont be shy!
throw in the stock cube.
Eat with pasta.
I'll add some pictures when I make it again :-)
1:58 PM
New toy!!
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| Imperia pasta machine
So I have a new toy - its awesome. Its made of metal, weighs a tonne (metric), has a clunkety clunkety click dial on it, and a winding handle. And just when you think life doesn't get better - this baby even makes pasta!
Ingredients: Flour + eggs. thats it!
Fresh pasta was a bit like the first time I had fresh coffee. Man, this stuff is mega nice!
Edit-27Jan: - See Links at the bottom to where this recipe came from! Step 1 - chop some stuff. |
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| choppy choppy |
Step 2 - some wine "for the sauce"
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| yum yum |
Step 3 - flatten dough and stir some stuff
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| some stuff |
Step 4 - clunkety click (setting pasta machine).
Flatten pasta. Swear a bit after realising pasta is still too sticky. Bung in a load of flour - et voila!
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| Fresh pasta |
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| Was a bit paranoid it'd turn into a dough ball, but it came out okay. |
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| I could eat it just like this. Mega nice |
Step 5 - Nom Nom Nom
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| Spaghetti Bolognese |
Notes to self:
Pasta: 1/2 cup flour per egg per person.
Kneed, sit (30min), flour-flatten-flour-flatten-flour-flatten. Chop. Cook (Salted! 4min).
Bolognese: Carrot (grated), Onion, Oregano/Basil/Thyme, Mince, garlic (lots), Tomatos, Red Wine, Tomatos. In that order.
Links
This recipe was mega easy, find it here for a proper how-to:- http://thepioneerwoman.com/cooking/2009/05/homemade-pasta/
- http://thepioneerwoman.com/cooking/2009/05/ryans-bolognese-sauce/
12:27 PM
yum yum yum
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| Avocado, Red Pepper, Salmon, Chilli |
So this week I've had a bit of a sushi project. Its actually surprisingly quick to make. Which isnt surprising really at all to anyone familiar with sushi, but is perhaps surprising to people who know that when I cook almost every pot and dish in the kitchen gets used - haha.
Ive actually been quite tactical this year, I only have 1 or 2 of each bowl/plate. Means that 1 bowl sometimes has to double up *inset shock and horror*.
Anyway, ive learned that old sushi is pretty yuk. I dont mean old fish, but even a vegetable roll kept in the fridge overnight, the nori goes all chewy.
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| Beef sushi. |
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| Inside out rolls. Avocado, Red Pepper and Salmon on top. Cucumber, Chillis, Salmon, Avocado inside |
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| Salmon, Avocado, Chilli, gherkins |
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| Sitting down to watch a moving and roll some sushi... works quite well |
11:58 PM
Sushi
Must remember a few things for next time:
- Put clingfilm on the roll matt
- wasabi from the asian shop is really REALLY hot!
Was tasty though, but not very traditional, as the ingredients I had were um... limited. I used gherkins instead of cucumber (worked well actually). Some red peppers, prawns fried in birds eye chilli and garlic + seasoning and some smoked salmon (until I find a shop that sells fresh fish).
Ingrediants:
Gherkins
peppers
sushi rice
soy sauce
wasabi
smoked salmon
prawns
chili
garlic
sushi seasoning sauce
Nori
2:53 AM
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