Kingly Foods

The other night I made some Asian style food for dinner, or Swedish style with Asian-y ingredients I don’t know which one is more correct :P Anyhow, it was really good. Really fun and most of all pretty fast!

Served two people just fine, could serve three thin girls with no problem.

What you need: shrimp, lemon-grass, chilli, garlic chives, soy sauce, ginger, honey, beef, garlic, rice paper.

Preparation: Cut the lemon-grass in thin slices, half of one should be enough for what I made. Cut up some chilli, I cut up one whole and that was a little bit too much Id say. Split the garlic chives so they are “singles” and then cut them in half. De-tail the shrimp if you want, I did. Fill up a bowl with warm water, or a deep plate for the rice paper. Also put a garlic clove into your garlic press.

Cooking the shrimp: Melt a table spoon or two of butter into a pan, when it bubbles up throw in the shrimp and the lemon-grass. Stir for half a minute or so and throw in the chilli and press the garlic. Finish off with the garlic chives. Dip the rice paper into the bowl of warm water for only a few seconds, put it on a dry plate and quickly put the shrimp and vegetables onto the middle. Wrap up tightly and tie up with a garlic chive for decoration. It will stay closed even if you don’t.

Cooking the beef: I used thin beef for this, maybe only half an inch or less thick. Heated up a pan with olive oil. Hammered a lemon-grass stick, cut it up longways and fried them together with the beef. Also since I love garlic I pressed one clove onto each beef slice.

What about the soy and honey? Right. In addition to this I made my first sauce. Its pretty good, reminds me of sushi. Spicy, tangy, salty. And heres how you do it. Mix down 5-8 tablespoons of soy sauce into a little cup. Add one tablespoon of minced ginger and one tablespoon of honey. Mix around and add a little bit of sesame oil. Perfect for the beef and the rolls!

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