Spicy Prawn Noodle Soup

Total Time: 20 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 10 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 2
• 100 ml oil
• 3 spring onions, chopped
• 500 g tiger shrimp, shelled & deveined
• 50 ml dark soy sauce
• 3 teaspoons cornflour
• 100 ml thai fish sauce
• 4 garlic cloves, chopped or
• 1 tablespoon garlic puree
• 2 teaspoons parsley, chopped
• 1 -2 chili, chopped or
• 1 -2 teaspoon chili paste
• 1 lime, juice of
• 1 teaspoon turmeric powder
• half teaspoon five-spice powder
• 1 liter water or 1 liter fish stock, add gradually to achieve desired consistency
• 1 big handful bean sprouts
• cooked noodles

Recipe

• 1 coat the prawns in the soy sauce and mix in the cornflour.
• 2 put the oil in a pan, not too hot. add the spring onions and start to cook. add the coated prawns after 1 minute.
• 3 mix the soup 'goo' ingredients to make a thick paste, then add to the pan. after a minute, add the water gradually until you have a soup consistency that suits you (bearing in mind that you'll be adding noodles and beansprouts shortly).
• 4 add the beansprouts and noodles and cook for a couple of minutes until the beansprouts are cooked but still slightly crunchy.
• 5 serve with hunks of bread to soak up the garlicky, spicy liquid and to mop up the bowl!