Chilli Prawns & Noodles Print Option

One of Mad Mick's favourites, probably because it's easy to make and cook. Make sure you use fresh prawns and vary the amount and/or type of chilli to suit your needs. You'll need a wok for this one, but if you can't find a wok you could probably get away with using a frying pan.

Serves 4.

Ingredients

600g of packet noodles (Hokkien are good)
3 garlic cloves
1-2 chilli
500g of green prawns (Mad Mick says get 'em fresh)
1 good handful of cherry tomatoes
4 spring onions
3 teaspoons (The ones you stir your tea with) of cornflour
3 tablespoons (The ones you eat your breakfast with) of cold water
1.5 tablespoons of brown sugar
4.5 tablespoons of sweet chilli sauce
3 tablespoons of tomato sauce (Or throw a tomato or two in the blender and use that)
3 teaspoons of soy sauce (The stuff you dip your spring rolls in)
3 teaspoons of white vinegar
2 tablespoons of oil (Cooking oil, not the stuff you put in your car)

Method

1. Peel the garlic and chop it up fine. Chop your chillis up fine. Chop the white part of the spring onions into roughly thumbnail size pieces and hang onto the green bits. Peel the prawns and leave the tails on, it looks better. Cut the cherry tomatoes in half and finally cut the green bits off the spring onions, diagonally into small sections.
2. Prepare noodles as per instructions (The instructions on the packet)
3. Mix the cornflour and water in a bowl until it is mixed completely. Then add the sugar, sweet chilli sauce, tomato sauce, soy sauce and vinegar and give it a stir.
4. Put about 1 tablespoon of oil into your wok and heat it up, then throw in the prawns and only cook them until they change colour, just turning orange. Now put the prawns aside.
5. Turn the heat down a bit, put the rest of the oil in the pan and let it heat before putting in the garlic, chilli and spring onions and give it a stir while it's cooking. This bit only takes a minute.
6. Pour the saucey stuff you made at step 3 into the wok with the other stuff and keep stirring until the sauce gets a bit thick, this bit won't take long, so keep stirring and keep watching.
7. Put prawns in the wok, stir it up and heat the whole lot for about a minute or 2, maximum.
8. Get the noodles you already cooked and the cherry tomatoes and throw them in the wok with everthing else and toss it about so everything mixes nicely.
9. Serve onto plates or bowls and get the green bits from the spring onions, that you cut up earlier, and throw a few on top of each serving. They taste bloody good and look ok too.
10. Tuck in (That means eat)