Tofu and Prawn Pad Thai
I found this recipe in the drawer cut out from the newspaper. Perfect for a warm Autumn night. You might want to add chilli or garlic to add more heat ….
You need for 2 starving men, 4 dieting girls or 33 models:
350g uncooked green prawns deviened and peeled
200g rice stick noodles
2 tabs fish sauce
3 tabs lime juice
1 tabs brown sugar
2 tabs peanut or olive oil
300g firm tofu
3 cups garlic chives (yes, it’s a lot but you need it)
1 red capsicum
1 red onion
1 cup bean sprouts
Serve with fresh coriander leaves, Lebanese cucumber cut into matchsticks
Sprinkled with chopped peanuts and lime wedges
• Toss on your favourite India Hick’s Caftan
• Climb off your Nina Ricci stilts
• Open the wine. Turn on Sex and City.
• Place the noodles in a large heatproof bowl.
• Cover with boiling water. Stand for 5-10 minutes.
• Loosen the noodles with a fork.
• Drain and rinse with cold water.
• Pour a big glass of wine. Drink.
• Chop up tofu into thick slices so it won’t fall apart when you fry it:don’t recoil in horror: it does look like cellulite.
• Chop up the capsicum into chic little thin sticks: think models leg
• Chop up the garlic chives into about 3 cm lengths. Think your legs will never be like that.
• Chop the onion into thin wedges. Give them a wedgie.
• Chop the peanuts for chic accessorizing later. On the food not your jacket.
• Squeeze the limes and save the juice (Otherwise what is the point?)
• Heat 2 tablespoons of oil in a wok and turn it up to medium-high heat.
• Gently lower in the tofu.
• Cook for about 5 minutes, turning it so that it’s golden as Valentino’s tan
• Transfer the tofu to a plate lined with paper towel to soak all the naughty oil.
• Now find a bowl and make the drizzle sauce by mixing the brown sugar with the fish sauce and lime juice.
• Throw down another wine and quickly turn off Sex and the City when George Clooney gets home.
• Heat the remaining oil and toss in the onion and stir fry for a minute or two.
• Then throw in the prawns and cook for about 2 minutes until you see they are cooked.
• Add the capsicum, garlic chives and bean sprouts and stir-fry for 60 seconds. You can time it.
• Then add the noodles, tofu and the sauces and toss .
• Accessorize with chic green coriander , sticks of cucumber and the crushed peanuts
• A little lime wedgie and chilli should be nice too.
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