Garlic Coriander Prawns with Thai Chillies and Onions

Like any usual day, I went to the supermarket to buy my groceries and pick up some chicken breasts for the Independence lunch, day after. I am patriotic in a many ways. Very passionate too. I dont have to be an army officer for that. I help by contributing to the GDP of my country (eyes roll). The food treat is also to celebrate a midweek holiday :)

As I go to the shelf to pick up some meat, I see some yummy seafood, which I would order only at a restaurant or wait for my awesome cook of a mommy to turn it out of her pan. And in one of those "what the fuck" moments, I pick up some prawns to satisfy my chef "keeda". I dont know how to clean them. I dont know how to cook them. The prawns, I mean. However, I know that coconut milk would go perfectly well with it. Nope. No Luck.Out of Stock.

I got back home at 9 and decided to just quickly read up online on how to clean the thingie and how much time does it take to cook it in a pan. However, I decided to stick to my cooking instincts for the recipe (an arrogant sniff). I love you mom, Jamie Oliver and Masterchef Australia for that :)

Serves 2 helpings
Ingredients
175 gms of Prawns, deveined and cleaned
3 tbsp Olive Oil4-5 Thai chillies, sliced diagonally
6 cloves of Garlic, crushed and chopped
1/2 a Lemon
1/4 tsp of Lemon Zest
1 Onion, finely chopped
a few stems of Coriander leaves, finely chopped
1/2 tbsp Ginger,finely chopped
1/2 tbsp Sugar. ( I would have liked to use palm sugar but I was out of stock)
1/4 tsp Black Pepper, crushed
1 tbsp Butter

Salt to taste

Marinate:
Mix the prawns with 1 tablespoon olive oil, salt, garlic, lemon, lemon zest, salt and chillies in a bowl. Rest it for 30 minutes.

Cooking:
Heat a pan with the rest of the oil. Add ginger and onions. Stir till slightly brown and add the prawns with the marinate. Cook each side of the prawn for about 45 seconds. Add pepper,sugar and coriander. Mix well. Finish it off with the butter.


And thats my lunch for tomorrow at work. Hope I dont ruin my chutti with food poisoning.The only problem with the dish was that it wasnt as dry as I had imagined it to be. The prawns and the onions left a lot of water. Didnt want to over cook my prawns, so I just let it be. It is yummy though :)

PS: Note to me: SAVE UP for your own Canon DSLR 650D :).Phone pics are gross and dated.

Food Marriage Tips:
1) Seafood needs lemon and salt. Always marinate/dress/serve with lemon. Seafood also start to cook in lemon juice. Hence depending on how long you have marinated it, you may have to reduce the cooking time (on fire).

For the love of Muzzhic

No I have not, not been listening to good stuff these days. However, joining back work after 2 months (phbhbhbtt not a cool thing this time), did leave a mammothian backlog to which my Boss said today, "3 Mahine me ho jaayega. Manage kar le". His faith is yes inspiring but mostly scary. In retrospect - There goes my raise :D. So while I was seemingly away (snicker, like I am a regular Blogger and snicker snicker, like I have followers),  but yeah, these few songs and artists have taken my breath away.

This particular one is rather disturbing but very haunting. I likes not a martyr sort of way, but still. Never knew someone would write a song on accidental babies.

Once the sad one is done: the happier ones are kick ass

And finally no discovery but just for old times sake. The best of Massive Attack.. This is the full album. Get a highstream bandwidth and have fun. Lot of background scores for many films and TV series was picked up from this album. House MD, Matrix, The Jackal, etc

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1039315/

There were more. But I have lost them in my playlist. Will post them later.

Back to work

So you think you can dance uses really good music sometimes. A new band I found while watching the show was District 78. The song used on the show is called Game On. However, found another nice track from the same band.

Then I found out that another song of band's was used for the Battleship Trailer. This is the one.

Life 3.0

As the misty dew settle on the lids

Awakened from a nightmare never to stay

A shadow of the known, the embryo’s nest

Dances to the hope of another day

The night before, the lamps dimmed

Brewing fear that guts from within

The night after, the glow swelled into the room

Folding into the comfortable womb, akin

                                                                   

                                                                                                                                 

The day before tomorrow

Today has been a bad day for music exploration. However, this one was quite interesting

Very strange but very interesting

Acid trip anyone??

Am sure this has been used for some trailer. I really like this video too

LED it on

In one of those moods today. And these tracks fit perfectly

This one is Score worthy: 

And as I have said before: You can recognize a Sigur Ros track blindfolded. I dont mean to be dumb when I say "blindfolded". 

I chanced upon this particular artist a few months back and heard some newer tracks today. However, went back to the original discovery which I thought was an absolute smasher. I absolutely dig this video as well....

Another one that I thought was absolute stunner was this one

Just a few of them today. My internet connection is a bitch today :)

In Between

I had a long tough morning. Have a long evening ahead too. So here is what I am doing in between:

This is ofcourse a Chemical Brothers song. The trivia is that this song was done in collaboration with a post rock/psychedelic/folk rock Texan band called Midlake. 

Another cool band that I chanced upon on youtube is: The Faint. They are an Indie rock/dance funk band. rock Found this one to be really interesting

And then of course, my favourite genre of music is metal/classic rock and i really like this one