Midweek RECIPES
Rice noodles with seafood & pickled cucumber
By Anisha Mistry (www.anishamistry.co.uk) GF DF EF
Serves 2-3 | Prep 15 mins plus marinating | Cook 15 mins | Calories 534 (per serving)400g (14oz) uncooked prawns, heads
removed, tails left intact, deveined
1 tbsp basil oil mixed with 1 tbsp water
200g (7oz) clams, soaked, cleaned
150g (5½oz) vermicelli rice noodles
1 long red chilli, sliced
fresh basil, to garnish
FOR THE MARINADE
2 tbsp gluten-free soy sauce
1 tbsp rice wine vinegar
1 tbsp mirin
½ tsp gluten-free fish sauce
1 tsp brown sugar
1 tsp finely grated ginger
1 tbsp Aglio, Olio e Peperoncino
spice mix, or other spicy mix
FOR THE PICKLED CUCUMBER
½ a cucumber, finely grated
¼ tsp sea salt
1 tbsp rice wine vinegar
½ tbsp caster sugar
½ tsp gluten-free soy sauce1 Whisk all the marinade ingredients together in a large dish
and add the prawns. Cover with clingfilm and marinate in
the fridge for about an hour.
2 Meanwhile, prepare the pickled cucumber (see below).
3 Remove the prawns from the fridge. Heat a large
saucepan over a medium-high heat, then carefully add the
basil oil and water. As it begins to vigorously sputter, add
the clams, cover and steam until the clams start to open.
Add the prawns and the marinade and cook for about 3
minutes until the sauce has reduced by a third. Remove
from the heat and leave to cool.
4 Cook the rice noodles in a saucepan of simmering water
as per the packet instructions, then drain and rinse under
cold running water.
5 Place the noodles, prawns, clams, pickled cucumber and fresh
chilli in a bowl and toss gently to combine. Turn out onto
serving dishes and sprinkle with freshly torn basil leaves.
FOR THE PICKLED CUCUMBER
1 Place the cucumber in a bowl and stir in the sea salt. Set
aside for 5 minutes. After 5 minutes, remove the water
and squeeze out the excess liquid from the cucumber.
2 In a small bowl, mix together the rice wine vinegar, sugar
and soy sauce, stirring occasionally until the sugar dissolves.
Add the mixture to the cucumber, mix well and set aside.Total fat Saturated Salt Sugar Protein- 3g 1.4g 1.8g 7.7g 41g