Lee Kum Kee Slow Cook Sauce for Cantonese Beef Stew

Slow cooked Classic Cantonese perfection. Hearty and flavoursome Beef Stew is popular in Cantonese cuisine. Rich beef and mushroom flavours with hints of ginger, garlic and spices.

A dish that has a huge amount of flavour and personality and another Lee Kum Kee Authentic Asian slow cooked meal.

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Honey Oyster BBQ Pork Skewers

Perfect for a BBQ, picnic or even in school lunch boxes.

So simple and fun to make – you could even ask the kids to help thread the pork and veges on to the skewers.

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Stir-Fried Pork with Green Pepper

So quick and easy, you can enjoy this on noodles or rice.

Although this recipe uses pork, you could also use chicken or beef. Change up the green pepper for red, or mix it up for more colour.

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Braised Chicken with Oyster Sauce

Nothing beats a quick and easy dinner after a long , hard, day so why not give this chicken dish a try!

Made with a few simple ingredients and packed full of flavour, you can whip this dish up in no time and serve with either noodles or rice.

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Prawns with snow peas

Ingredients

  • 1 tbsp vegetable oil
  • 500g green king prawns, peeled, de-veined and tails intact
  • 4 cloves garlic, finely chopped
  • ½ cup Homemade stir-fry sauce
  • 300g snow peas, blanched

Prawns with snow peas

In a wok, heat the oil until very hot. Add the prawns and chopped garlic. Stir-fry for 2 minutes until the prawns are almost cooked. Add the snow peas and stir-fry for a further 2 minutes. Pour over the stir-fry sauce and toss until hot and well-coated.

Season with black pepper and serve with boiled rice.

Notes

  • Sometimes the prawns used in this recipe are sold as prawn “cutlets”.
  • Make sure that you don’t overcook these prawns so they still have some crunch.
  • Blanch the snow peas by trimming off the ends, removing the string, and standing them in boiling water for 5 minutes.
  • This recipe was created by Jennifer Cheung for Kidspot.

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Prawns, broccoli and ricotta elbows

 

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Serves: 4

Ingredients:

  • 375g Barilla Gluten Free Elbows
  • 1 jar Barilla Ricotta Sauce
  • 1.5L vegetable or fish stock
  • ½ medium onion, chopped
  • 1 clove of garlic, crushed
  • 3g dried chili
  • 16 green prawns, medium size, heads removed, de-veined, cut in 3 pieces
  • ½ glass of white wine
  • 1 large broccoli, florets kept separated from stem
  • 70g butter
  • 80ml Extra Virgin Olive oil
  • Sea salt & pepper, to taste

Method:

Bring your stock to the boil.

In a large frying pan add oil, then onion, garlic, chilli, and then add the prawns and season.

Cook for a couple of minutes, then add the Barilla Gluten Free Elbows, and pour in the wine.

Finish cooking as you would cook a “risotto”, adding the stock a ladle at a time and cook for 4 minutes.

Whilst the pasta is cooking, boil the broccoli florets in the stock for 2 minutes. Once ready, add to the pasta.

Toss with the Barilla Ricotta sauce for a couple of minutes and allow the pasta to absorb all juices.

Remove from the heat, add butter and a drizzle of Extra Virgin Olive oil.

Scallop, asparagus and pesto spaghetti

 

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Serves 4 people | Prep. 20 min. | Cooking time: 15 min

Ingredients:

  • 375g Whole Grain Spaghetti
  • 1 jar Barilla Pesto Genovese
  • 2 garlic cloves, finely chopped
  • 1 tbsp dry chilli
  • 100 ml Extra Virgin Olive oil
  • 12 fresh scallops, quartered
  • 1 glass of dry white wine
  • 1 bunch asparagus, thinly sliced
  • 1 punnet cherry tomatoes, quartered
  • Rock salt, for pasta water
  • Sea salt

Method:

Bring plenty of water to the boil in a large saucepan. When boiling, add rock salt (7g to a litre of water).

Heat oil in a large fry pan, add garlic, chilli and cook until golden.

Add the scallops and cook for 2 minutes with the asparagus.

Add the wine and allow it to evaporate. Cook for a further few minutes and add one small ladle of boiling water.

Drop the pasta into the water and stir. Cook according to the instructions on the pack.

Drain pasta 1 minute before the suggested cooking time and toss it with cherry tomatoes for another 1 minute.  Add the scallops and asparagus. Remove from heat and add the Pesto Genovese, stirring to combine.

Chef’s Tip: For a vegetarian option, just replace the scallops with a classic combination of potatoes and string beans.

Beginner’s sushi

Ingredients:

  • 1 cup sushi rice, uncooked
  • 3 cups water
  • 2 tbsp mirin
  • 3 nori seaweed papers

Equipment:

  • 1 bamboo rolling mat
  • glass water on standby

Fillings:

  • Peeled cucumber cut into batons
  • Cold BBQ chicken thighs, sliced into strips
  • Peeled cooked prawns
  • Sushi grade salmon
  • Butter lettuce

Method:

Place uncooked rice in 3 cups of cold water, bring to the boil and simmer until cooked.

Rinse rice thoroughly, but delicately as you want to keep the form of the rice, I rinsed the cooked rice three times in cold water.
Put the rice into the refrigerator to cool completely before using.

Prepare all the ingredients and have them ready to use.

Add 2 tbsp of mirin to the cool rice; thoroughly mix through with a spoon.

Lie a seaweed sheet over the bamboo mat and position the two lengthways away from you. Place a little of the rice (about ¼ of a cup) on the near side of the seaweed sheet and flatten into a rectangle shape into a sausage shape, leaving about 3cm of the seaweed sheet clear of rice nearest to you.

Place a little of the filling across the centre of the rice and then gently pick up the end of the bamboo mat closest to you and start rolling away from your body as tightly as possible.

Make sure you leave about 3cm at the far end of your roll without rice/filling. When you have finished rolling, dip your fingers into the water and wet the strip of seaweed on the end to close and seal the sushi.

With a sharp knife, chop the sushi into bite-sized pieces.

Notes:

  • Rolling sushi is definitely one of those techniques that gets easier and better with practice. By the time I had finished all the rice I had made, my sushi was looking a whole lot better than when I first began!
  • We’ll definitely make again! I highly recommend it – it would be great thing to do with teens as an activity too. I’m now eager to try making some of my faves from the sushi bar – tempura prawn, cooked tuna with corn…
  • Mirin is Japanese vinegar. You can find it most good sized supermarkets these days.
  • A lot of sushi that you buy includes Japanese mayonnaise. Rather than buy it, I cheated and watered down some regular mayonnaise so it was the consistency of tomato sauce.
  • I have listed the fillings I used to make sushi this time, but obviously the sky is the limit when it comes to choosing sushi fillings. Avocado, carrot sticks and tuna (tinned or fresh) are others that I could have used but didn’t this time around.
  • This recipe was created by Melissa Klemke for Kidspot, New Zealand’s best recipe finder.

Beetroot, prawn and farro salad

Ingredients

  • 2 x packs LeaderBrand Pure’n Ezy Baby Beets
  • 1 pack LeaderBrand Super Kale
  • 20 large prawns, peeled with tails intact
  • 1 Tbsp olive oil
  • 2 cloves garlic, peeled, crushed
  • ½ lemon, juice of
  • ½ cup farro
  • 80g feta, crumbled
  • 1-2 tsp sumac, to serve

 

Dressing:

  • 1 lemon, juice and zest of
  • 2 tsp wholegrain mustard
  • 1 clove garlic, peeled, crushed
  • 2 tsp extra virgin olive oil

 

Directions

Combine prawns with the oil, garlic and lemon juice. Marinate for 30 minutes.

Meanwhile, soak farro in water for 20 minutes. Drain and rinse. Cook farro in boiling water for 15 minutes until tender. Drain and cool.

Heat a heavy-based frying pan on a high heat. Cook prawns for 2 minutes, turning until cooked through.

In a screw-top jar, combine all the dressing ingredients and shake vigorously to combine.

Toss farro and kale with dressing in a large bowl. Add beetroot, prawns and feta. Sprinkle with sumac to serve.

 

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Lemon and garlic prawn pasta

Lemon and garlic prawn pasta

Serves:

4-6 serves

Ingredients

  • 6L boiling water
  • 2 tbsp salt
  • 1 pkt (454g) angel hair pasta
  • 1/3 cup (80ml) olive oil
  • 1/3 cup (80g) butter
  • 12 cloves garlic, chopped
  • 1 tsp chilli flakes (optional)
  • 500g green prawns with tail on
  • 1/2 bunch continental parsley, chopped
  • 1/2 cup (125ml) lemon juice

Method

Step 1. Gather all ingredients.

Step 2. Boil water, add salt and pasta and cook for 4 minutes, drain and set aside.

Step 3. In a frying pan, heat olive oil and butter over medium heat. Add garlic and chilli and fry for 1 minute.

Step 4. Add prawns to the pan and cook for 2 minutes each side. Add parsley to the pan and stir.. Turn off heat and add pasta to the frying pan. Add lemon juice and toss well to coat all of the pasta in the garlic butter. Season well with fresh cracked salt and pepper.

Lemon and garlic prawn pasta

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Note

  • I really like to add a punnet of sliced up grape or cherry tomatoes into this recipe to give it a fresh flavour and add some vegetable in.
  • If I was serving this to toddlers I would omit the chilli flakes but older children seem to be able to handle this amount of chilli.
  • If the weather is warm then this Avocado and prawn salad is a great light meal.
  • This Classic prawn cocktail is great entree for dinner parties.
  • These Creamy garlic prawns have a touch of cream and basil and are perfect served with rice.
  • These Fresh prawns with two dips are perfect to share with friends over a glass of wine.
  • If you are looking to add something special to your pizza then this Garlic prawn pizza is a delicious choice.
  • These Prawn and avocado stacks combine tabouli and avocadoes for a fresh entree.
  • This Prawn and lemon risotto has similar flavours to this pasta but is made with arborio rice.
  • Make these traditional Chinese favourite with prawns: There is Prawn toasts that are deep fried and delicious, Prawn pot sticker dumplings that are super-easy to make and Honey prawns that your kids will love.
  • This recipe was created by Jennifer Cheung for Kidspot, New Zealand’s best recipe finder.

Thai chicken soup

Thai chicken soup

Serves:

 

Ingredients

  • 3/4 cup jasmine rice
  • olive or canola oil spray
  • 1 teaspoon green curry paste
  • 4 teaspoons MAGGI Chicken Stock Powder
  • 1 litre water
  • 200 millilitres Coconut Milk
  • 2 red chillies, deseeded and finely chopped
  • 2 stems lemongrass, outer leaves removed, finely chopped
  • 4 kaffir lime leaves, finely shredded
  • 1 teaspoon ginger, minced
  • 500 grams chicken breast fillets, cut into thin strips
  • 200 grams green beans, cut into 3cm lengths
  • 1 red capsicum, deseeded and cut into strips
  • 2 teaspoons honey
  • 4 large bread rolls.

Method

Cook rice according to packet instructions.

Spray a non-stick saucepan with oil and cook curry paste over medium heat for 3 minutes, stirring occasionally.

Add the pepared stock powder and water, milk, chillies, lemongrass, lime leaves and ginger.

Bring to the boil, then reduce heat to low, add chicken and simmer for a further 5-10 minutes or until chicken is cooked through.

Add beans, capsicum, rice and honey and simmer for a further 5 minutes or until vegetables are tender.

Serve with bread rolls, if desired.
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Satay Chicken Burgers

The whole family will love these satay chicken burgers. They’re a little bit different and make a great addition to your menu plan. The satay sauce adds a fantastic flavour to these patties.

Ingredients

  • 600g chicken mince
  • 1 onion
  • half a cup continental parsley or coriander leaves
  • half a cup fresh bread crumbs
  • half a cup bought satay sauce
  • 1 tablespoon olive oil
  • 2 carrots, peeled and grated
  • 1-2 cups shredded iceberg lettuce
  • half a cup satay sauce, extra
  • 4 rolls or large slices of bread

Method

Place onion, herbs and bread crumbs in a food processor, whiz until finely chopped. Combine onion mixture, chicken mince and satay sauce in a large bowl. Form into 8 patties and refrigerate for 15 minutes.

Heat oil in a nonstick frypan over medium heat. Cook four patties at a time for 3-4 minutes each side until cooked through. Keep warm while you cook the second batch.

Heat extra satay sauce for 20-30 seconds in the microwave.

Place rolls or bread on plates, top with lettuce, grated carrots and 1 or 2 chicken patties. Drizzle some of the extra satay sauce over the burgers and serve immediately.

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Note

  • The satay sauce adds a fantastic flavour to these patties; substitute with an egg if you want to make nut-free burgers.
  • Make these burgers gluten-free by making your own gluten-free bread in the food processor.

Thai red chicken curry

Thai red chicken curry

Serves:

Ingredients

  • 3 tbsp peanut oil
  • 500g chicken thigh fillets, diced
  • 2 tbsp red curry paste
  • 400ml coconut cream
  • 2tbsp fish sauce
  • 1 tbsp brown sugar
  • 1 cup water
  • 2 baby eggplants, sliced
  • 1/2 red capsicum, sliced
  • 1/2 green capsicum, sliced
  • 20 green beans, sliced
  • 1 cup bean sprouts

Method

In a pan, fry the diced chicken in hot peanut oil to seal and add curry paste.

Fry for 2 minutes and add the coconut cream, brown sugar and fish sauce.

Add 1 cup of water and bring to a slow simmer.

Toss in all the vegetables except for the bean sprouts. Simmer for 10 minutes.

Stir in bean sprouts just before serving.

Notes

  • This is a little smoother than a green curry. It seams to highlight the flavours of the vegetables better. Even my children will have this curry.
  • You can make it spicier by adding an extra tablespoon of curry paste and some sliced red chillies.
  • I like to serve this with steamed jasmine rice alongside a plate of Thai fishcakes.
  • This recipe was created by Jennifer Cheung for Kidspot, New Zealand’s best recipe finder.

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Lemon garlic prawns

Lemon garlic prawns

Serves:

Ingredients

  • 500g fresh green king prawns
  • 1 tsp grated lemon rind
  • 2 tbsp lemon juice
  • 1 tsp garlic, crushed
  • 2 tsp lemon pepper seasoning
  • 2 tbsp olive oil
  • 2 tsp parsley, fresh or dried

Method

Mix all ingredients together.

Toss in pan or on the barbeque until the prawns go pink and are cooked.

Season with freshly ground pepper and salt.

 

Notes

 

  • You can thread these onto soaked skewers if you are looking to serve them at a barbeque.
  • Don’t skip seasoning these. They require the salt to balance the lemon flavours.
  • This recipe was created by Jennifer Cheung for Kidspot, New Zealand’s best recipe finder.

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Garlic prawn pasta

Garlic prawn pasta

Serves:

4

Ingredients

  • 230g spaghetti or fettuccine
  • 2 tsp butter
  • 2 tsp olive oil
  • 3-4 garlic cloves, minced
  • 20 green prawns, peeled, deveined and halved lengthways
  • 1 tsp lemon zest
  • 2 tbsp lemon juice
  • ½ cup fish, vegetable or chicken stock
  • ¼ cup coarsely chopped flat-leaf parsley

Method

Bring a large saucepan of salted water to the boil, add the pasta and cook as per packet instructions. Drain the pasta.

Meanwhile, heat the butter and oil in a large non-stick frying pan over medium-high heat unti the butter is melted.

Reduce the heat to medium, add the garlic and cook for 1 minute.

Increase the heat to medium-high and cook the prawns, lemon zest and lemon juice for 1-2 minutes, until the prawns are just cooked and still tender.

Add the stock and heat through gently.

Add the drained pasta to the frying pan with the parsley and toss to combine.

Serve in bowls with salad and crusty bread on the side.

Notes

  • This dish contains 1352.4kJ (322cals); 5.9g total fat (1.9g saturated fat)
  • This recipe was written by Jay Rogers for The Moodie Foodie. You can follow The Moodie Foodie on Facebook, Twitter or Pinterest.

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Pineapple, Prawn & Lemongrass Stir-fry With Basil

This pineapple, prawn and lemongrass stir-fry with basil is surprisingly quick and easy – a summery dinner the family will love.

Ingredients

  • 1 tablespoon oil
  • 2 cloves garlic, chopped
  • ½ stalk lemongrass, finely chopped
  • 3-4 dozen raw prawns, shelled
  • 1 teaspoon sesame oil
  • 2 tablespoons soya sauce
  • 1 ½ tablespoons sweet chilli sauce
  • 1 kaffir lime leaf, finely shredded
  • ½ a pineapple, skin cut off, chopped
  • Large handful basil leaves

Method

Make sure you thaw the prawns thoroughly and dry them on paper towel before frying.

Heat oil in a large fry pan or wok.

Add garlic, lemongrass and prawns, stir fry on high heat for 2-3 minutes until prawns are just about cooked.

Add remaining ingredients, except basil leaves, and continue to cook a further few minutes until hot through.

Turn off the heat and toss through the basil.

Serve hot with steamed rice.

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Healthy glazed meatballs

Healthy glazed meatballs

Serves:

Ingredients

Meatballs

  • 500g extra lean beef
  • 1 garlic clove, minced
  • 2 tsp freshly grated ginger
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 2 spring onions, finely chopped
  • 1 egg, lightly beaten
  • 1 cup panko breadcrumbs

Glaze

  • 1/4 cup (60ml) soy sauce
  • 1/4 cup (60ml) oyster sauce
  • 1/2 (125ml) cup orange juice
  • 2 tbsp honey
  • 2 tsp sesame oil
  • 2 tsp freshly grated ginger
  • 1 small garlic clove, minced

Method

Heat oven to 210°C (190°C fan-forced) and line an oven tray with baking paper.

Mix meatball ingredients together and roll 1 tablespoon of mixture for each meatball.

Place on the oven tray and bake for 10 minutes.

Place glaze ingredients into a small saucepan and bring to a boil.

Reduce heat and simmer for 5 minutes.

Remove meatballs from the oven and pour a teaspoon of glaze over each meatball.

Continue to bake for a further 10 minutes.

Remove meatballs from the oven and toss through the remaining glaze.

Serve on a salad, steamed vegetables, rice noodles, rice or a combination of any of these.

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Note

  • Using lean mince keeps the fat and calories down.
  • Make twice as many and send meatballs along in a lunchbox the next day.
  • This recipe was created by Jay Rogers for Kidspot, New Zealand’s best recipe finder. You can follow Jay at The Moodie Foodie and on FacebookTwitter or Pinterest.

Prawn and chorizo risotto

This spicy risotto owes its mild heat to the chorizo sausage and a beautiful seafood flavour thanks to the juicy prawns. Italian food at its best!

Ingredients

  • 20ml (1 tbsp) olive oil
  • 1 brown onion, diced
  • 2 cloves garlic, diced
  • 1 chorizo sausage, sliced
  • 1 red capsicum, sliced
  • 2 cups arborio rice
  • 125ml (1/2 cup) white wine
  • 400g tin chopped tomatoes
  • 750ml (3 cups) fish stock
  • 150g green prawns, peeled, deveined, heads removed
  • coriander, to serve

Method

Heat oil in a large, deep frypan with a lid. Add onion and garlic and saute over gentle heat for 3-4 minutes. Add chorizo and capsicum and cook for 2 minutes. Add rice and cook for a further minute. Increase heat, add wine and allow it to bubble up. When the wine has been absorbed, add the tomatoes and cook, stirring, for 2 minutes.

Fill the tomato tin with water and add to the mix along with the stock. Bring to the boil, reduce heat to the lowest setting, place a lid on the frypan and cook for 12-15 minutes until all of the liquid has been absorbed and the rice is cooked.

Stir through prawns and cook for a further 2-3 minutes until they are tender. Add a little more water if it is looking too dry. Just before serving, stir through coriander.

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Note

  • You can buy fish stock in cartons from the supermarket.
  • Good quality frozen prawns are fine. I like to keep some in the freezer for just this type of easy midweek meal. Paired with the spicy chorizo, they add some excitement to the dish, and can be thrown in at the last minute to cook through.

Recipe provided by Greer Worsley (and adapted by Kidspot NZ). Greer is a working mum whose desire to make and bake things has grown in inverse proportion to the amount of spare time she has since her three gorgeous girls came along. Her blog is typically red.

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Thai seafood salad

Thai seafood salad

Serves:

Serves 6

Ingredients

  • 1/2 kg green prawns (peeled, deveined, tails intact)
  • 1 squid tube (cleaned, finely sliced)
  • 400 g firm fish fillets
  • 1 punnet cherry tomato
  • 1 Lebanese cucumber
  • coriander (for topping)
  • mint (for topping)
  • lime (cut into wedges, for topping)

For dressing:

  • 1 bunch coriander (washed, roughly chopped)
  • 1/2 bunch mint (roughly chopped)
  • 1 long red chilli (seeds removed, roughly chopped)
  • 4 clove garlic (crushed)
  • 2 tbs soy sauce
  • 2 tbs lime juice
  • 1 tbs fish sauce
  • 1 tbs brown sugar

Method

Make dressing by blitzing all ingredients in a food processor.

Heat a barbecue or grill plate over high heat. Toss seafood in a little oil. Cook calamari for a couple of minutes until just cooked through. Remove to a bowl. Cook prawns for 1-2 minutes each side. Add to bowl with calamari. Cook fish for 3-4 minutes each side, depending on thickness, until just cooked. Allow to cool slightly then flake carefully into chunks.

Carefully fold dressing through seafood using a large spoon.

Halve cherry tomatoes and dice cucumber. Add to seafood and fold through. Spoon salad out onto a serving plate and garnish with extra herbs, sliced chilli and lime wedges.

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Note

  • Choose seafood according to your taste. Mussels, scallops and even lobster would be great.
  • Choose a firm white fish, e.g. Blue-eye Trevalla.
  • Feeding a crowd? Buy extra seafood and simply double the quantities in the dressing.
  • The long red chilli makes this mildly spiced. If you like your Thai salads hot, add a couple of bird’s eye chillis instead.
  • This recipe was created by Greer Worsley for Kidspot.

Prawn and ginger cakes

Prawn and ginger cakes

Serves:

Makes 16

Ingredients

  • 1 large potato, peeled, diced
  • 250g peeled green prawns
  • 3 shallots (scallions), finely diced
  • 2 tbsp coriander, chopped
  • 1/2 tsp grated fresh ginger
  • 1 tsp soy sauce
  • 2 tsp sweet chilli sauce, plus extra to serve
  • salt/pepper
  • 2 tsp cornflour
  • 2 tbsp vegetable oil

Method

Place potato in a small saucepan, cover with cold water, bring to the boil and cook for 8-10 minutes until tender. Drain and lay in a single layer on a plate or tray to cool.

Chop prawn meat finely and place in a large bowl with shallots, coriander, ginger, soy sauce and sweet chilli sauce. Season with salt and pepper, and mix well. Use a fork to roughly mash potatoes then add them to the prawn mix with the cornflour. Combine well.

Heat half the oil in a large nonstick frying pan. Form 16 cakes from the prawn mix and cook in batches for 2 minutes each side until nicely brown, adding more oil as required. Remove to a plate lined with absorbent paper and keep warm.

Serve with extra sweet chilli sauce for dipping.

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Note

  • You could chop and combine the prawn cake mix in a food processor, but be careful not to overdo it.
  • Frozen peeled green prawns are fine in this recipe; defrost first.
  • Recipe by Greer Worsley, who blogs at Typically Red.

Thai pumpkin soup

Thai pumpkin soup

Serves:

Ingredients

  • 1 tbsp vegetable oil
  • 2 tbsp Thai red curry paste
  • 1kg butternut pumpkin, peeled and roughly diced
  • 1 tin (425ml) coconut milk

Method

In a saucepan, heat the oil and fry the curry paste over a medium heat for 2 minutes.

Add the pumpkin to the pan and continue to fry further for 3 minutes.

Pour the coconut milk over the pumpkin and bring to the boil.

Reduce heat and simmer for 20 minutes until pumpkin is soft.

Cool for a few minutes and blend or use a stick mixer to a smooth consistency.

Garnish with coriander and serve.

Notes:

  • Using 2 tablespoons of curry paste gives a very mild flavour. If you want your soup to have a bit of bite, you can add another tablespoon of curry paste.
  • If you don’t like chopping and peeling pumpkin, you can halve a butternut pumpkin, remove the seeds and bake it at 180°C for 45 minutes and then scrape out the flesh. This soup uses 2 cups of butternut pumpkin flesh. Just add this after you fry off the curry paste and your soup is almost ready.

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This recipe was created by Jennifer Cheung for Kidspot, New Zealand’s best recipe finder.

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Garlic prawn pizza

This garlic prawn pizza has no cheese on top so it’s ideal if you are not a cheese lover. Make it for a romantic dinner after the kids have gone to bed. It’s OK if you BOTH have garlic.

Ingredients

  • 6 cloves garlic
  • 3 tbsp olive oil
  • 1/2 tsp sea salt flakes
  • 2 tbsp chopped parsley
  • 250g green prawns
  • 1 pizza base
  • 1 1/2 cups chunky pasta sauce
  • lemon wedges

Method

Preheat oven to 200°C fan-forced or 220°C conventional. Spray a pizza tray with canola spray and set aside.

In a mortar and pestle, pound the garlic, olive oil and salt flakes until just broken down.

Stir in the parsley and prawns.

Spread pasta sauce over the pizza base. Lay out prawns. Drizzle over any remaining garlic oil. Slide onto a pizza tray.

Bake in the oven for 20 minutes or until the prawns are just cooked.

Serve with lemon wedges.

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  • Ordinary salt is fine for this pizza if you don’t have flakes but it really needs the salt to balance out the garlic flavour.
  • Pasta sauce is a wetter option to using traditional pizza sauce. In this pizza it is an ingredient and adds real flavour.
  • This recipe was created by Jennifer Cheung for Kidspot, New Zealand’s best recipe finder.

Tomato and chilli mussels with sourdough garlic bread

Tomato and chilli mussels with sourdough garlic bread

Serves:

Ingredients

Garlic bread:

  • 1 sourdough baguette
  • 75g butter, softened
  • 3 cloves garlic

Mussels:

  • 1x 400g can chopped tomatoes
  • 150ml passata
  • 2 tsp horseradish cream
  • 2 tbsp Worcestershire sauce
  • 2 celery stalks, finely chopped
  • 3 garlic cloves, finely chopped
  • juice of one lemon
  • 1 tsp dried chilli flakes, or to taste
  • 1 kg mussels, ready to cook from the bag
  • 1 bunch parsley, finely chopped

Method

Preheat the oven to 180°C or 160°C fan forced.

Slice the baguette into 3 cm slices but not all the way through to the other side, so the baguette stays joined together.

Mix the butter and garlic together and spread the mixture evenly on both sides of each bread slice. Wrap tightly in foil and bake for 30 minutes.

Meanwhile, combine the tomatoes, passata, horseradish cream, Worcestershire sauce, celery, garlic, lemon and chilli together in a bowl.

When the garlic bread is almost done, tip the mussels into a large saucepan with a tight fitting lid. Set the heat to medium/high and pour in the tomato mixture. Cover and cook for five minutes or until bubbling and all of the mussels have opened. Discard any that have not opened. Sprinkle with parsley and serve with the warm garlic bread.

Notes:

  • This meal is fun as everyone can help themselves and linger over their plates. If you’d like to bulk the meal out a little then toss through some cooked linguine.
  • It is most important that you discard all of the unopened mussels as these will potentially give you food poisoning.
  • This recipe was created by Sophie Hansen for Kidspot, New Zealand’s best recipe finder.

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Hoisin chicken lettuce cups

Hoisin chicken lettuce cups

Serves:

Serves 4

Ingredients

  • 1 tbsp olive oil
  • 4 shallots
  • 1 clove garlic, finely chopped
  • 2cm piece ginger, grated
  • 2 medium carrots, peeled and diced
  • 2 medium zucchinis, diced
  • 1/2 cup frozen peas
  • 2 cups cooked barbecue chicken, diced
  • 1 tbsp hoisin sauce
  • 1 tbsp oyster sauce
  • 1 tbsp soy sauce
  • 1 tsp sesame oil
  • 1 iceberg lettuce
  • coriander, to serve

Method

Step 1. Heat oil in a wok or large frypan. Slice white part of shallots, reserving green parts. Add shallots, garlic and ginger to wok and cook over gentle heat for 1 minute. Add carrots and cook for 2 minutes. Add zucchini and peas and cook for a further minute.

Step 2. Add chicken, sauces and sesame oil and cook for 2 minutes.

Step 3. Remove core from lettuce with a sharp knife. Gently pull apart lettuce leaves and trim with kitchen scissors. Chill until needed.

Step 4. Fill lettuce cups with chicken mixture. Top each cup with some coriander and finely sliced shallot greens.

Hoisin Lettuce cups
Notes

  • You can use whatever vegetables you prefer – capsicum, spinach and mushrooms would all be lovely.
  • Washed and well-dried butter or gem lettuce would also be suitable.
  • You could use this mixture cooled and wrapped in rice paper rolls.
  • Barbecue chicken is so convenient and you could also use it in this delicious Asian chicken noodles recipe. The flavours are similar.
  • This BBQ chicken and rice salad is great picnic food for the family and packs well in a cooler bag.
  • If you need to get a quick dinner in the oven then this BBQ chicken pasta bake will cut your cooking time in half.
  • Have you ever done the shopping and got all of the groceries home only to find that you are too tired to cook? Well this BBQ chicken salad for the exhausted shopper is the perfect recipe for you.
  • Have you ever had a sick family member and needed chicken soup in a hurry? Try Katie's chicken soup recipe recipe. It's maximum impact with minimal effort.
  • You can also use a barbecue chicken in Chicken BLTsChicken parcels and Chicken pasta salad. Just bring it home in the bag and strip all the lovely moist chicken meat off for a super-fast kitchen shortcut.
  • This recipe was created for Kidspot, New Zealand’s best recipe finder by Greer Worsley, who blogs at Typically Red.

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Pork and vegetable rice noodle rolls

Pork and vegetable rice noodle rolls

Serves:

4

Ingredients

  • 1 tsp oil
  • 400 g pork mince
  • 1 celery stalk (diced)
  • 1 carrot (diced)
  • 1/2 zucchini (diced)
  • 1/2 red capsicum (diced)
  • 2 spring onion (finely sliced)
  • 1 tsp ginger (grated)
  • 2 clove garlic (crushed)
  • 1 tbs brown sugar
  • 2 tbs oyster sauce
  • 1 tbs soy sauce
  • 2 tsp fish sauce
  • 450 g fresh rice noodle sheets

For sauce:

  • 1 tbs kecap manis
  • 1 tbs soy sauce
  • 2 tsp rice wine vinegar
  • 1 tsp white sugar
  • 1 tsp sesame oil

Method

Heat oil in a frypan or wok over high heat. Brown mince, draining off any excess liquid.

Add vegetables, including ginger and garlic, and cook for 2-3 minutes. Add sugar and sauces and cook for a further 3-4 minutes until vegetables are tender and sauce has reduced and thickened. Set aside to cool slightly.

Carefully unroll rice noodle sheets and cut them into pieces approximately 9cm x 14cm. Spoon on some of the pork filling and roll to enclose.

Place a bamboo steamer over a saucepan of simmering water. Line it with baking paper. Carefully place filled rolls onto the paper. Cover with the lid and steam for 3-4 minutes until noodles are soft. To make sauce, combine all ingredients in a small bowl. Remove cooked rolls onto a plate and drizzle with the sauce.

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  • Rice noodle sheets, different to rice paper used in Vietnamese rolls, are available in delis and Asian grocers. They are best used the day they are purchased, therefore avoiding refrigeration.
  • Rice noodle sheets become brittle if they have been refrigerated, so you will need to gently warm them to make them manageable. You can do this by microwaving them in short bursts, or steaming them.
  • If you have a bamboo steamer that’s large enough to hold a small plate, you can cook the rice noodle rolls directly on the plate you intend to serve them on. This way you can avoid the tricky transfer to and from the steamer.
  • If you have the time and enthusiasm, you can make your own rice noodle sheets from scratch from a homemade rice dough. Recipes can be found online.
  • This recipe was created by Greer Worsley for Kidspot.

Chicken and prawn jambalaya

Chicken and prawn jambalaya

Serves:

Ingredients

  • 2 tbsp olive oil
  • 1 onion, chopped
  • 1 green capsicum, diced
  • 3 stalks celery, chopped
  • 400g can chopped tomatoes
  • 3 bay leaves
  • 1 tsp smoked paprika
  • 1 tsp dried thyme
  • 1 tsp dried oregano
  • 1 tsp Worcestershire sauce
  • 1 tsp Tabasco
  • 3/4 cup rice
  • 3 cups (750ml) chicken stock
  • 2 smoked chicken drumsticks
  • 300g garlic green prawns
  • 1 chicken breast, diced

Method

In a large, heavy-based frying pan, heat oil over high heat and saute onion, capsicum and celery until softened.

Add tomatoes, bay leaves, paprika, thyme, oregano, Worcestershire sauce and Tabasco.

Stir in rice, chicken stock and smoked chicken drumsticks. Reduce heat to medium and cook, stirring occasionally, for about 10 minutes.

Add prawns and chicken. Cook until meat is done (about 10 minutes more). Season to taste with salt, pepper and more Tabasco, if desired.

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  • Tabasco is optional in this recipe but it is a Cajun dish and is supposed to be spicy.
  • You can buy garlic green prawns at your fishmonger but plain green prawns will be a good substitute if they don't have them.
  • This recipe was created by Alana House.

Chicken tofu and noodle stir fry

Chicken tofu and noodle stir fry

Serves:

 

Ingredients

  • 900 grams fresh hokkien noodles
  • olive or canola oil spray
  • 350 grams firm tofu, cut into cubes
  • 1 teaspoon garlic, minced
  • 1 teaspoon ginger, minced
  • 1 onion, sliced into thin wedges
  • 1 red capsicum, sliced
  • 1 zucchini, sliced
  • 1 carrot, sliced
  • 200 grams fresh baby corn
  • 1 bunch brocollini, coarsely chopped
  • 1/2 cup stirfry sauce
  • 3 tablespoons MAGGI Chilli Sauce
  • 2 tablespoons sesame seeds

 

Method

Place noodles in a large heatproof bowl, cover with boiling water and leave to stand for 2 minutes, gently using a wooden spoon to separate strands.

Spray a nonstick wok or frying pan with oil and heat.

Cook tofu in 2 or 3 batches over high heat until browned; set aside.

Reheat wok, add garlic, ginger, onion and stirfry for 2 minutes or until soft.

Add remaining vegetables and stirfry for 3–5 minutes until tender but still crisp.

Add drained noodles, tofu and combined sauces to wok.

Stirfry for 2 minutes or until heated through.

Toss with sesame seeds and serve immediately.

Garnish with chervil, if desired.

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Sesame Prawn Skewers

Sesame Prawn Skewers

Serves:

Ingredients

  • 600g peeled green prawns
  • 1 tbsp sesame oil
  • 1 large garlic clove, minced
  • 8-12 bamboo skewers, soaked in water for 30 minutes

Cucumber salad

  • 1 large Lebanese cucumber, sliced into ribbons
  • 1 large carrot, grated
  • coriander to garnish (optional)
  • 2 tsp lemon juice

Method

Toss prawns in sesame oil and garlic.

Cover and place in the fridge for 10-15 minutes.

Remove prawns from the fridge and thread onto skewers.

Arrange cucumber salad on plates.

Heat grill pan or barbecue grill to medium and add skewers. Cook for 2-3 minutes per side and squeeze over lemon juice.  Serve with simple cucumber salad.

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  • Make sure you buy green prawns (uncooked) and not cooked prawns, otherwise they will over cook and not taste as good.
  • Soaking the bamboo skewers makes sure they don’t burn on the grill. You can also use metal skewers.
  • Use any salad ingredients you have, I like cucumber and carrot but if you prefer other vegetables then go right ahead.
  • This recipe was created by Jay Rogers for Kidspot, New Zealand’s best recipe finder. You can follow Jay at The Moodie Foodie and on FacebookTwitter or Pinterest.

Seafood risotto

Seafood risotto

Serves:

Ingredients

  • 1 onion, finely chopped
  • 2 cloves garlic, finely chopped
  • 2 cups Arborio rice
  • 125mL white wine
  • 1L good quality fish stock (gluten-free)
  • 2 x 200g salmon fillet
  • 12 scallops, roe removed
  • 8 green prawns, peeled, deveined, tail removed
  • zest and juice of 1 lemon
  • 2 tablespoons fresh lemon thyme leaves (or parsley)
  • lemon cheeks, to serve

Method

Place stock in a saucepan and heat until simmering.

Heat oil in a large heavy based frypan at medium heat.

Cook salmon fillets, 3-5 minutes each side depending on thickness of salmon and your preferred level of doneness.

Remove from frypan to plate and chop into bite size pieces.

Reheat frypan, add onion and fry for two minutes, add garlic and cook for another two minutes.

Turn up the heat, add Arborio rice and stir constantly for two minutes until heated through.

Pour in wine, there will be a bit of a sizzle, cook until wine has almost evaporated.

Add a soup ladle (about half_ cup) of hot stock to the frypan, turn the heat down to a simmer and stir until stock absorbed, then add another ladle of stock.

Continue adding stock, stirring and allowing each ladleful to be absorbed before adding the next.

The risotto will take 15-20 minutes to cook.

As always with risotto, make sure you use a nice white wine and enjoy a glass while stirring!

When the rice is nearly soft, add scallops and prawns and cook for another 3 minutes until prawns are pink.

Stir in lemon zest, juice and herbs.

Serve immediately with lemon cheeks.

Notes:

  • If the risotto is a bit gluggy, add more stock (or boiled water if you are out of stock) I am a bit of a wuss when it comes to oysters, mussels, clams etc, but adjust the seafood content to suit your tastes.
  • Seafood or marinara risottos traditionally do not have parmesan added, but I wont tell if you dont.
  • Recipe created by Melissa Hughes for Kidspot.

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