Pasta Udang Masak Lemak

Masak Lemak Prawn Pasta

Udang masak lemak is basically prawn cooked in coconut milk and turmeric. It's *probably* a Malay dish, usually eaten with rice.

There are a variety of masak lemak dishes from crab to pumpkins. So I decided to tweak the recipe a bit and add in... pasta. I used spiral and that tube-like macaroni pasta because despite the coconut milk, I think the masak lemak is quite a light sauce- more to broth, really.

Ingredients for 2 servings

• 2 1/2 cups water

• 2 cloves garlic

• 1 shallot

• 2 inches ginger

• 1 tbsp chili paste

• 1 tsp turmeric

• 2 tsp Maggi Cukup Rasa

• 1 tsp pepper & salt

• 1/2 cup coconut milk (santan)

• 10 cleaned prawns

• 1 cup spiral pasta

• 1 cup macaroni pasta

• chopped coriander (sprinkle)

Steps

1) In a pot, mix in finely blended garlic, shallot & ginger, chilli paste, turmeric, Maggi Cukup Rasa, pepper and salt into hot water. 

2) Add in prawn and coconut milk, bring to almost boil. Add rinsed pasta and cook for about 8 minutes.

3) Ready to serve after a sprinkle of chopped coriander~

It's a bit weird if you're used to having it with rice but interesting kind of weird. Easy to prepare & cook too and that's pretty much what my cooking is all about :