Oh My this is a very old recipe lying on my desktop done during one of my early visits this year to Trivandrum, Kerala. I love prawns and they love me back unconditionally! They literally blush when I caress them and cook with them but I do not cross my line while consuming them as I am aware that they are high in cholesterol. Gulp!
This time(remember this was prepared months ago) I decided that I would include them in a salad and that's how this Prawn salad shaped up. We love salads at home and I enjoy adding all kinds of fruits and nuts to my salads. I left this very crunchy by including baby corn and green apples in them.
The prawns were cleaned and lightly tossed in butter in which a finely chopped onion was sautéed with a pinch of salt and some spice rub.I can't even remember now what spice was added as this was done ages ago. Let's keep it simple for you guys and just add chilly flakes to this. Once they sort of shrivel, take them off the heat and slide them into a clean plate. In the same greased pan in which you sautéed and cooked the prawns add in the thinly sliced baby corn and toss them in that and quickly take them out as well. We do not want to lose that crunch!
A marinade of a quarter cup of orange juice (tetrapack/fresh), salt and pepper goes into a bowl and mix in the baby corn, the cooked prawns and sliced green apples. Taste the seasoning. Add a dash of lime if you require and balance it out with the sweet fruits-either a pear or an apple. Cut and slice the apples just before serving.
Add a few chopped almonds/pinenuts/peanuts for an extra crunch.
A final garnish with a few rubies of pomegranate completes the dish. Keep it crunchy and leave it like so. Do have them fresh and while they are all still crunchy and not soggy. Serve them in a bed of chopped iceberg lettuce if you have them. I didn't!
People keep asking me (at times sarcastically) if I am always cooking and if that's how I kill time these days...Hmmmm...I think most of us cook at home daily, like every day of our life, like Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday blah blah blah...I just have this nasty habit of cooking, clicking pics and chitchatting with others about them most of the time.
We all cook or somebody cooks at home right...We all need to eat right? So that's like a ritual without sounding too defensive...Oh by the way, I did teach for nearly two decades...voluntarily retired to keep the in-laws company from time to time, I reared two beautiful boys almost single -handedly while the Mister was abroad on work, I do bake not just for myself as people and relatives always assume...Sad! that such creativity is sooooooo looked down upon even by educated people as well! Yes, I do feed my family with my bakes from time to time if there are no orders.
If you also start clicking pictures of what you prepare daily...you would understand what I am talking about. Everything has a story, a moment is created, something is learnt of taught by default. A little bit of appreciation would do wonders instead of being so...
So in other words, to those of you who are so judgmental about nourishment that you and I need and have on a daily basis, I've found your "nose" Here it is...take it...it was lying around here in my business...in my creative world. Cheers!
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