Name: Scrambled eggs with prawns and cucumber
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Singaporean
Ingredients: 4 eggs; packet of noodles or 250 g rice; 1 cucumber, cut into 2.5 cm pieces; 10 king prawns, peeled; a dash soy sauce; 1 tablespoon Asian fish sauce; 50 g butter; 2 garlic cloves, chopped; Szechuan or white pepper

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Clarissa's Comfort Food

By Clarissa Dickson Wright

Published 2008

About

This is an excellent lunch or supper dish which I came across in Singapore. To bulk it out you can have it with rice or noodles.

Ingredients

packet of noodles or 250 g rice
50 g butter

Method

Cook the noodles or rice as per packet instructions.

Heat the butter in a heavy pan and fry the garlic. Add the prawns and cook until they begin to turn pink. Add the fish sauce and the soy sauce and cook for a few minutes. Add the cucumber and some crushed Szechuan pepper or white pepper.

Lightly beat the eggs in a bowl and add a pinch of salt. Fold the eggs into the prawns, st