The Tonberry Chef - Kilika Spiced Prawns
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Published on 05-21-2014 10:49 AM
Hello, hello people of Eyes on Final Fantasy. I am The Tonberry Chef. Yes, yes I know - you think Final Fantasy and cooking and you think of Quina. Well, did you know that I taught that long-tongued toad how to cook? I did! This little Tonberry has a few tricks up her sleeve... I'm here to inspire you one recipe at a time! I've spent years of my life traveling around the worlds of Final Fantasy and talking to it's inhabitants and learning all of their secrets. These secrets that I will now share with you!
From my travels to the beautiful Kilika, I learned that they like their spicy food there! I'm not surprised since the Temple of Kilika is home to Ifrit and his fiery wrath. Kilika is a pretty beachy place too, so they eat a lot of fresh seafood and fish. This recipe is inspired by the heat of Kilika. It is
Spiced Prawns with Linguine, linguine pasta is not something you would really associate with Kilika, but it just goes so well with the sauce, and teamed with those beautiful fresh prawns... This dish is on fire!
Serves 2
Difficulty Rating
2.5 Chef's Knives
Ingredients
400g of cleaned, shelled Prawns.
1 tin of crushed tomatoes
1 white onion
3 cloves garlic
2 red chillies
1/2 cup of vegetable stock
Fresh baby spinach
Linguine pasta
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Method
Finely chop the onion and garlic, and add them to a hot pan with some oil and a dollop of butter. Let them sweat for a few minutes but don't allow them to burn. Keep them nice and moist in the pan and not too hot. While you're waiting, chop up one of the chillies and add it to the onions - seeds and all. Keep stirring so everything gets coated in the butter and the flavours start to combine.
Next tip the tomatoes into the pan to start the sauce and stir in the vegetable stock. Leave the sauce on a medium heat to cook through and reduce down. Keep tasting as it cooks to check the level of spice, I like things to be hot, hot, hot! So I will have added in the two chillies. Remember that you can add chilli in, but you can't take it out! So if you're unsure just keep adding it gradually!
While the sauce is reducing, start cooking your linguine (feel free to use spaghetti, I just prefer those nice ribbons of linguine coated in the silky sauce.) When the pasta is almost cooked and the sauce has reduced well, it is time to add the prawns. The prawns will not take long to cook in the sauce, so plop them all in and stir them through until they're coated and sinking down. To tell when prawns are cooked, just keep an eye on the colour change as they will go from being slightly translucent to being very plump and pink. They will quickly turn opaque and go firm. It is very easy to overcook prawns and an overcooked prawn can be quite tough and rubbery, but a well cooked prawn will be soft and melting - delicious!
Turn the heat off and drain the pasta, then pour that delicious sauce into the pasta. Now is the time to throw in a few handfuls of baby spinach, wilted spinach finishes this dish off well. Give it all a good stir, plate it up, and devour. Yum! Feel that heat!
Do try this recipe, and let me know how it went for you in the comments below! I will be back soon with more recipes for you to try!
Coming soon:
Nibelheim Pulled Pork
Moogle Cupcakes
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