10-minute Spicy Prawn Drunken Noodles
10-minute Spicy Prawn Drunken Noodles
Ingredients
Main
- 5 garlic cloves, roughly chopped
- 3 birds' eye chillies, stem removed
- 1 large red chilli, stem removed
- 500g (1 lb) fresh rice noodles*
- 2 tbsp vegetable oil
- 250g (8 oz) peeled and deveined prawns
- 100g (3.5 oz) sliced Asian greens*
- 4 tbsp oyster sauce
- 1 tbsp fish sauce
- ½ tsp dark soy sauce
- ½ tsp white sugar
- 1 heaped cup holy basil (also known as spicy basil or hot basil)*
Instructions
- 1
Use a mortar and pestle to pound the garlic and chillies to a rough paste.
- 2
To prepare the fresh rice noodles for cooking, warm them for about 10 seconds in the microwave to make it easier to separate them.
- 3
If your noodles have come in uncut sheets, slice them into thick (pappardelle size) strands.
- 4
Heat the vegetable oil in a wok over high heat. Add the garlic chilli paste and stir-fry for 30 seconds.
- 5
Add the prawns and stir-fry for 2 minutes or until almost cooked.
- 6
Toss through the greens.
- 7
Add the noodles, oyster sauce, fish sauce, dark soy sauce and sugar. Stir-fry until well combined.
- 8
Toss through the basil and serve.