Prawn Stir Fry With Crushed Cashew Nuts

Quick and easy stir fry, under 10 minutes prep + cooking

Ingredients

• Stir fry vegetables kit (cheaper than buying all ingredients separately)
• noodles (you can often get the stir fry veggies with the noodles on some kind of meal deal)
• soy sauce
• cashew nuts
• peanuts
• prawns (already peeled and cooked)
• oil (stir fry oil works best, but olive oil or sunflower oil would be fine too)
• utensils:
• frying pan (or wok) x 2
• spatula
• bowl
• glass

Instructions

STEP 1:

To prepare the crushed nuts beforehand:

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1. Empty about a handful of cashew nuts and another handful of peanuts into a small bowl

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2. Use the bottom of a drinking glass to push down on them and crush them

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3. Put to one side

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to prepare the stir fry and noodles:

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1. In each pan, heat up about 15 ml (a decent sized splash) of oil. Stir fry oil works best, but olive oil or sunflower oil would work too

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2. Once the oil is hot, add the stir fry vegetables to pan number 1, and the noodles to pan number 2

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3. After about a minute, add the prawns to the stir fry vegetables

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4. Remember to constantly stir the ingredients in both pans to heat them thoroughly and to stop them sticking

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5. Usually, the vegetables only need 3-4 minutes to heat up, but check the packaging to be sure. About one minute before they’re ready, add a couple of splashes of soy sauce (more or less, depending on your taste). The noodles normally take around the same amount of time.

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5. Transfer the noodles into a bowl

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6. Transfer the stir fry veggies and prawns onto a plate

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7. Sprinkle the crushed nuts over the top

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pop any leftovers into a sealed plastic food container and put them in the fridge, and have it for lunch/dinner the next day.