Recipes with seafood
Burmese fish curry goes very, very well with rice so it's difficult to eat when you're on a low-carb diet. Actually, most Burmese foods are made to be eaten with a lot of rice and there's even a word for it. In Burmese, they call this "htamin main" which means somethign so good that it … Continue reading Burmese fish curry
It's already half way through February ... how did it go by so fast?! It seemed like only yesterday that it was Christmas, New Year ... wedding and honeymoon. But now I'm back to the grind and it's the first post of 2016! Serves 4 Prep time 15mins Cook time 20mins Ingredients 200g linguine pasta … Continue reading Prawn and mussel linguine with basil (467 calories per serve)
I haven't had scallops for a very long time so I thought I'd just grill some on a low-carb base of cauliflower mash. It's not as creamy as my creamy cauliflower puree but it's got slightly lower calories. Serves 4 Prep time 15 mins Cook time 15 mins Ingredients 600g cauliflower (approx. half a large … Continue reading Grilled scallops and cauliflower mash (278 calories per serve)
I love san choy bow, which is a minced pork dish that is usually sered in lettuce cups. However, I had some green cabbage in the fridge that I had bought when it was on sale at the supermarket which would also go well with the pork. So here's a san choy cabbage! Serves 4 … Continue reading San choy cabbage
The name sounds super exotic and complicated but it really isn't. I love eating this either with pasta - I used fettucine on this occasion - or dipped with bread. Buon appetito! Prep time 20mins Cook time 20mins Ingredients 2 tbsp olive oil 150g prawns, deshelled and deveined 200g scallops 3 cloves garlic, crushed 1/2 onion, diced 400g can … Continue reading Frutti di Mare all’Arrabbiata (439 calories per serve)
This pipis recipe is very simple and easy to make. I don't cook pipis often, mainly becasue it's quite expensive. It's usually about $20/kg and half of its weight is in shell anyway. While this recipe uses pips, feel free to use other types of clams. Serves 3 as a side (approx. 250 calories per … Continue reading Stir-fried lemongrass pipis recipe
The first time I tried hor mok was in Cambodia where they called it amok. A few weeks ago, I took a friend to a fusion Asian restaurant/bar in Melbourne called Cookie and this was on the menu. She had never tried it before but loved it when I ordered it. So when I told … Continue reading Thai ‘hor mok’ fish custard
Pan fried fish fillets really shouldn't be that hard. But when I first started cooking, I really sucked at cooking fish. I tried steaming them once, because I was told it was very easy. It was not. I ended up overcooking the outside edges and the inside was still raw. But pan frying the fish … Continue reading Pan fried fish fillets with ginger and soy
I don't eat seafood often because I only have it if it is very, very fresh. That means I can't buy it overnight and cook it the next day because it would smell too fishy for me. I had to have it on the day that it was bought and that was why I only … Continue reading Honey and lemon glazed salmon fillets (671 calories per serve)
