Garlic prawns and bacon with udon noodles

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Garlic prawns and bacon with udon noodles. Click on the photograph and you’ll see how I ate them.

With the memory of Asian bolognese from Thursday night at XO Restaurant still fresh in my mind tonight I made garlic prawns and bacon with udon noodles. In my mind an improvement on an Italian garlic prawn pasta. This is the first time I’ve bought bacon for about six months. With the recent IARC/WHO announcement in mind I only bought one 50 g rasher. I’ve never done that before.

If you want to see how nicely the noodles were cooked check out the YouTube video I recorded.

Garlic prawns and bacon with udon noodles
Recipe Type: Dinner
Cuisine: Australian
Author: [url href=”http://about.me/garydlum”]Gary Lum[/url]
Prep time:
Cook time:
Total time:
Serves: 1
Ingredients
  • 90 g [url href=”http://www.hakubaku.com/en/”]Hakubaku organic udon noodles[/url]
  • 250 g raw peeled garlic prawns
  • 50 g streaky Primo bacon
  • 2 teaspoons chilli flakes
  • 1 teaspoon cracked black pepper
  • 1 teaspoon good grub hub wasabi sesame seeds
  • 1 tablespoon chopped parsley
  • 1 tablespoon chopped basil
  • Zest from 1 lemon
  • 1 tablespoon Greek yoghurt
  • 100 mL light coconut milk
  • 1 tablespoon garlic aioli
  • 1 tablespoon fried shallots
  • 1 tablespoon flaked almonds
Instructions
  1. Get some water boiling and add the udon noodles for 8 minutes
  2. Fry off the streaky bacon which has been cut into strips
  3. Add the garlic prawns to the hot frying pan and stir fry until they just change colour
  4. Remove the prawns and bacon from the heat and put into a bowl
  5. When the udon noodles have cooked drain and add to the hot frying pan
  6. Return the prawns and bacon to the frying pan and quickly fry
  7. Add the Greek yoghurt, coconut milk and aioli and mix everything in
  8. Add the parsley and stir
  9. Turn off the heat and add the chilli flakes, cracked black pepper, wasabi sesame seeds, fried shallots and flaked almonds
  10. Stir together and plate up into a bowl
  11. Garnish with chopped basil, lemon zest and a little more of the wasabi sesame seeds
  12. Shoot a photograph
  13. Record a time-lapse video while eating
  14. Wash the dishes
  15. Write the recipe
  16. Blog (verb)
  17. Share the recipe on the Hakubaku website and hope to win a prize

This was a really tasty meal. The udon noodles are terrific at absorbing the flavours of garlic and bacon and the hot and spicy chilli flakes.

For dessert I enjoyed some Weis’ pineapple, coconut and lime sorbet.

This is a photograph of a tub of Weis' pineapple coconut lime sorbet plus a small bowl
Weis’ pineapple coconut lime sorbet

This morning I went for a walk around Lake Burley Griffin (bridge to bridge) and shot some photographs

This is a photograph of the National Carillon
National Carillon
This is a photograph of orange Roses from near Old Parliament House
Roses from near Old Parliament House

For lunch I ate a poppy seed bagel with smoked salmon, cream cheese, wasabi sesame seeds, capers and dill. It was a pretty good sambo.

This is a photograph of a Smoked salmon, cream cheese and capers on a poppy seed bagel
Smoked salmon, cream cheese and capers on a poppy seed bagel

Roses from my garden bed.

This is a photograph of pink roses from my garden bed.
Roses from my garden bed

If you want to see the photographs as a gallery click here. Click on one image to see it full size. To see the EXIF data (including a map if the photograph was geotagged) click on the information (i) icon in the top right corner. You can navigate through the gallery using the arrow keys or by swiping if you’re using a tablet or smartphone.

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