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Easy Fried Rice
Ingredients
1 tsp olive oil, 1 large onion chopped, 4 tbsp soy sauce, 2-4 eggs beaten, 160g rice, 4 spring onions chopped
Method
Cook the rice in chicken stock according to packet instructions and leave to cool. It can be left in the fridge overnight.
Heat the oil in a wok and pour the beaten eggs in. Stir the eggs to avoid it becoming an omelette.
When the egg is about 75% cooked (ie still a bit runny), add the onion to the wok. When the egg is almost cooked through, add the rice and season well with salt and pepper. Drizzle in as much soy sauce as you want and throw in the spring onions. Cook for about 2 minutes, until the rice is piping hot.
Remove from the heat and serve.

Smoked salmon pasta

Ingredients

• shallots
• olive oil
• smoked salmon
• white wine
• dill
• creme fraiche
• dried tagliatelle

Detail

• put water for pasta on to boil
• chop shallots finely, fry in olive oil until softened but dont brown
• chop smoked salmon finely and add to shallots
• put pasta into boiling water and set timer
• stir white wine, creme fraiche, dill into smoked salmon & shallots. Aim is to achieve a light creamy sauce for pasta so adjust wine & creme fraiche accordingly. Add dill to taste.
• drain pasta & serve, pour sauce over pasta
• enjoy with the rest of the white wine (adults only!)

Ingredients
1 tbsp olive oil
1 tsp sugar
1 chilli de-seeded and finely sliced or the the equivalent of the chilled in a tube variety
1/2 lemon juiced
1/3 tbsp sesame oil
1 knob fresh ginger around 1 inch, finely chopped
1 bag noodles
2 cloves garlic chopped
1 tbsp fish sauce
1 bunch coriander fresh
3 tbsp light soy sauce (or more to taste)
1 bag frozen prawns around 180g
1 bag vegetables chopped, suitable for stir frying
115ml white wine or dry sherry
Method
If you remember, defrost the prawns before hand, if not, take them from freezer now and run under cold water in a sieve for a couple of minutes.
Heat oils in a wok, on high.
Fry garlic and ginger in oil for a half a minute.
Add chilli, prepared stir fry veg (and coriander if using), and stir fry for about 3 minutes.
Meanwhile, put noodles on to cook (usually 5 minutes or so in just boiled water).
To the wok, add prawns, sherry/wine, fish sauce, lemon/lime, sugar, soy sauce and heat for a minute or longer if using prawns that are not fully defrosted. Make sure the prawns are cooked through.
Drain cooked noodles and add to stir fry, stir through and serve.
Handy Hint
Use whichever size prawns you prefer. Substitute cooked chicken for the prawns if you prefer, adding at the same stage. Leave out some or all of the chilli to serve to children.
Additional Information
Dairy Free
Main Course
Shellfish
Low fat
stirfry
chinese
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Your comments
TwentiethCenturyHeffa 09/08/10 07:34
Very yummy and easy to make.
kslatts 30/03/09 23:48
Took longer than expected to pepare and cook, but was very tasty.
21/01/08 21:50
Cheating by using packet stir fry veg certainly saves time in all that chopping, but still gives a tasty result fit for entertaining

Easy - Spicy Chicken Kebabs
Ingredients
2 chicken breast cut into chunks
1/2 tsp cayenne pepper
2 tbsp soy sauce
2 cloves garlic
1/2 tsp thyme
Method
Mix all the ingredients together and marinade in the fridge for 1 hour.
Put the chicken onto skewers and grill or BBQ.

I will try this weekend.

Fried Rice
Not bad at all, thank you :-). Although onion I found take 6-7 mins to fry through, rather than spring onion which takes 1-2 mins. So I cook the egg and onion separately. Also as I have a weakness for Singapore rice/ noodles I add 1 tbspn mild curry powder, some prawns and bacon bits. Now where,s that white wine. Glug glug glug. :-)