Prawn scallop and speck fried cauliflower rice after a relaxing Saturday at home
Prawn scallop and speck fried cauliflower rice
Today was the first day since the long weekend that I’ve been able to work from home and not go into the office. I did dial into a teleconference but I got stuff done. The grocery shopping was relaxing. A walk to the shops for a coffee was relaxing. Watching some TV was relaxing.
Dedicated to a friend who gave me moments of light hearted joy during the week.
Rather than a heavy steak this weekend, I thought something a bit lighter while it’s still relatively warm in Canberra. Last night after a full-on day, I stopped at Jamison Takeaway and bought a small container of seafood salad, a small container of coleslaw, and two potato scallops. While I know the seafood extender is basically fake seafood, I’m assuming the little prawns are really prawns.
As I was enjoying the seafood salad, I thought for tonight I’d use prawns in a fried cauliflower rice dish. Obviously, if I’m buying a small handful of prawns, I may as well buy a small portion of scallop meat too. While I could have bought some duck fat, I thought, rendered pig fat would be good so I also bought a prism of speck so I could cut it and fry it off for the fatty goodness. I hope it tastes as good as what I cooked the other week.
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Recipe
It’s important to read the recipe before cooking because the timing of processes needs to be understood.
- Ready ‘riced’ cauliflower rice
- Prawns
- Scallops
- Speck
- Mushrooms
- Sherry
- Soy sauce
- Queensland nut oil
- Spring onions
- Red onion
- Whole black peppercorns
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Cut some speck into cubes.
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Slice some spring onions.
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Slice some red onion.
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Slice some mushrooms.
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With a nice heavy pestle in your dominant hand grind the black peppercorns to a rough coarse texture in your mortar.
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In a hot frying pan fry up the speck to render out the fat.
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Cook the speck until it has changed colour to a golden brown but not burnt.
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Toss in the prawns and cook until the prawns change colour to red.
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Toss in the scallops and fry up with the speck and prawns until the surface of the scallop meat begins to whiten.
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Transfer the speck, prawns, and scallop meat to a bowl and leave the pig fat in the frying pan.
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Toss in the sliced mushrooms and some of the spring onions and cook until soft.
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Keep some of the spring onions aside for the final garnish.
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Add a splash of sherry and keep the mushrooms and spring onions moving in the frying pan.
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While the mushrooms and spring onions are absorbing the sherry and pig fat, cook the cauliflower rice using microwave radiation according to the instructions on the packet of cauliflower rice.
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Once the cauliflower rice has been cooked, toss it all into the frying pan and combine the cauliflower rice with the mushrooms and spring onions.
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Add a good splash of soy sauce and stir through.
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Add in the speck, prawns and scallop meat and combine everything.
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Transfer everything in the frying pan to a bowl.
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Garnish with the coarse pepper and spring onions.
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Eat with chopsticks 🥢 in support of oppressed Chinese Australians who are suffering racist side looks and shade from ignorant arseholes who assume everyone who looks Chinese is infected with SARS-COV-2 and has COVID-19.
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Shoot a photograph.
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Eat the meal.
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Wash the dishes (hint, wash as you cook, it makes life easier).
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Write the recipe.
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Write the blog post.
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Hit publish and hope this blog post gets shared on Twitter, Facebook, and Pinterest.
Disclaimer
I have no culinary training nor qualifications. This post is not intended to convey any health or medical advice. If you have any health concerns about anything you read, please contact your registered medical practitioner. The quantities are indicative. Feel free to vary the quantities to suit your taste. I deliberately do not calculate energy for dishes. I deliberately default to 500 Calories or 500,000 calories because I do not make these calculations.
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Questions and answers
Do pork and prawns go together?
Too right they go together. Think about the best wonton soup ever. Like my mother’s wonton soup. It’s made with pork and prawns. It’s the best. Adding in the scallop meat is just an added luxury.
What would have made this better?
I reckon a fried egg on top with oozy yolk commingling with the fried cauliflower rice would have been AWEsome.
How good is pork fat?
I like it almost as much as duck fat.
Final thoughts
- Do you like prawns and pork together?
- Would you have added a fried egg?
- Would you eat this for breakfast?
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we made it and it was delicious. We especially liked the comments – lol – thanks for a very tasty dish!
Thanks
Sounds and looks really delicious! 🙂
Thank you very much.
Quick to prepare and delicious to eat…my kind of meal.
Thanks, Karen. Exactly right. Quick and delicious.
A quick dish to prepare and delicious to eat…my kind of meal.
Yes indeedy, a fried egg on top for sure, and it just seems natural that prawns would compliment a good pork steak. Breakfast, maybe not but anytime after 9:30 am would be fine for me. Hope you are doing well Gary. I’m heart broken over the devastation from fires but, I know you Aussies are some of the toughest bipedal hominids on the planet and will carry on to better times. All the best my friend.
Thank you very much Daniel. The fires are now out after some good rain. Now there is flood damage but people seem to be managing that. At the moment all my focus is on COVID-19.
You are on the frontlines Gary and knowing you and people like you are joined in the battle, gives me confidence in a positive outcome. No easy challenge but we’ll get there. We just need to manage the panic and mayhem as best we can.
Thank you. I’m grateful that amongst the like-minded nations our preparation is such that we will manage better than many others. It does trouble me that in the 21st century, we will still see many suffer because of social and economic differences.
That suffering needlessly is hard to swallow. I hope our near future strengthens our resolve to lessen that significantly.
I hope for the children and further generations of our own children they can enjoy a world without large scale differences which result in large scale suffering.
I can report that I meet a lot of young people who are solid material to take on the world and the problems that come with it. They don’t make good news stories because they are too busy building a meaningful life. In their hands, we old folks will be safe.
I hope to never see our children and their friends in the news. I just want them to have happy fulfilling lives helping others along the way.
That would indeed be a noble path. With encouragement and a little help, they will get there.
This sounds absolutely delicious Gary! If I saw it on a menu I’d order it. Mr NQN loves working from home. He says he gets a lot more done that way.
Thanks Lorraine. I wish I could live in Darwin and do my job 😃
Hmm… I’ve never tried prawns and pork together. Yes, a fried egg on top would be awesome and I’d eat this for breakfast.
Thanks, Emma. I can highly recommend prawns and pork 😃👍