Spicy prawn and noodle fritters

Ingredients: (makes about 12)

2 handfuls of small cooked prawns

1 sheet of medium egg noodles

4 spring onions

2 medium eggs

1 small chilli

1 tbl sp sesame oil

1 tbl spoon veg oil

1 tea sp of plain flour

• Cook the egg noodles according to packet instructions, drain and roughly chop.
• Roughly chop the prawns and spring onions and add to the noodles.
• Finely dice the chilli and add to the prawns/noodles/onions, along with the sesame oil and eggs.
• Mix everything well. It should have quite a thick consistency. If it looks too wet, add a little flour.
• Heat the veg oil in a non stick frying pan or pancake pan.
• Place spoonfulls of the mixture in the hot oil and allow to cook for a couple of minutes. Turn over and cook on the other side until golden.
• Serve with sweet chilli sauce.

Chinese beef noodle soup

This was very easy and quick to make...

Ingredients (serves 2):

800ml beef stock

1 fillet steak, finely sliced

splash of sesame oil

splash of chinese cooking wine

splash of soy sauce

1 pinch of chinese 5 spice

1 chilli, de-seeded and diced

1 clove of garlic, peeled and minced

1 thumb nail sized piece of ginger, minced

1 star anise

3 spring onions, sliced

6 mushrooms, sliced

pack of ready cooked noodles

1 chinese leaf, finely diced

• Fry the mushrooms, garlic, spring onions, chilli and ginger in a little sesame oil
• Add the stock, star anise, chinese 5 spice, cooking wine and soy sauce. Allow to simmer for 10 minutes or so
• Add the sliced beef and noodles and cook for a couple of minutes until the steak has poached
• Add the chinese leaf and allow to simmer for another minute or two
• Remove the star anise and serve in warm bowls

Chinese 5 spice pork scratchings

A perfect snack whilst watching the football with a bottle of beer

Ingredients:

top layer of a small square of pork belly

tea spoon of chinese 5 spice

sea salt

oil (olive or sesame)

• Pre heat the oven to 200 degrees
• Cut the pork belly skin into bite sized pieces and put in a mixing bowl. Mix with a splash of oil, the Chinese 5 spice and a good pinch of sea salt.
• Then place the marinated pork in an oven tray and place in the pre heated oven
• Roast for approx 30 minutes until they start to look like pork scratchings
• For extra crunchy scratchings place under the grill for the last 5 minutes

Chinese omelette

Ingredients (makes 2 omelettes):

3 eggs

cooked peeled prawns

shitake mushrooms, sliced

3 spring onions, sliced

splash of soy sauce

1 clove of garlic

pinch of dried chilli flakes

1/2 tea spoon of chinese 5 spice

1. fry the mushrooms, spring onions, chilli and garlic until the mushrooms are just soft, add the soy and chinese 5 spice for the last minute or two


2. beat the eggs and pour half into an omelette pan


3. once the omelette is almost cooked, heap half of the the cooked prawns and mushroom mixture on one side then fold over the omelette


4. continue to cook for a few minutes until the prawns are warmed through


5. repeat for 2nd omelette