Dangarinah Sayang Sarawak: Hokkien Western Fusion Prawn Pasta

*in collaboration with San Remo

I similar the regard that San Remo has established a topic for this collaboration - "Because We All Want the Best for Our Family!" This' my initiative sense cooking inwards a topic specific addition product specific trend inwards whatever collaboration together with I'm loving it! Because of my dearest for my family, I was banging on cooking a communal dish which every household unit of measurement fellow member could but dig inwards together with convey fun together at the dining table! I wanted it to hold out a i pot dish together with thence that nobody (including myself) would hold out left behind inwards the kitchen preparing other dishes acre the remainder are eating. In my family, my 80-year former parents adore local together with Chinese dishes whilst my hubby together with I bask Western. It could hold out tricky to ready for all at the same time. This yummy Hokkien Western Fusion Prawn Pasta's good received past times all! The Hokkien Western Fusion Prawn Pasta's really a melting pot of flavours where non entirely the East meets West, but tantalising to our tongues inwards a cohesive manner. Imagine....having cheesy together with creamy pasta infused inwards tasty rich prawn heads broth that nosotros traditionally run for Hokkien Prawn Mee! Then bake the entire pan at high temperature for the smokey touch, particularly together with thence for the seafood! Plus the pork lard, the sambal chili or/and chili flakes, together amongst squeezed lime juice! It's but KAbooooom lah!

Flavours aside, nosotros all know how sinful it could hold out when a dish is laden amongst cream, cheese together with lard. I but couldn't the temptation i time inwards a while. Because We All Want the Best for Our Family, I had no hesitation to run character ingredients together with that included San Remo's gluten costless penne. It's non entirely gluten free, but dairy free, egg costless together with 98% fatty free!

This Hokkien Western Fusion Prawn Pasta's no fine dining dish. In fact, it's rustic inwards presentation together with flavours! I fifty-fifty prepared a laid of banana leaves to hold out used on everybody's serving plate! It's this rustic charm that reminded me of our family! No frills, rustic yet comfortable. And that's how our household unit of measurement connects!

Main Ingredients (enough for four pax) :

12 mid sized prawns (deveined but maintain heads together with shells intact)
2 squids/sotong (cleaned together with cutting to rings)
1 box San Remo's Gluten Free Original Penne (about 300 to 350 gm)
4 garlic cloves (thinly sliced)
1 loving cup cooking cream
1 loving cup grated/shredded mozzarella cheese
a dash of chili or cayenne pulverization (to marinate seafood)
parsley flakes (for garnishing)
salt together with carbohydrate (to accommodate to gustation earlier serve)
2 to 3 tbsp pork lard crude oil or other cooking oil (cut pork lard to pocket-size cubes)(blanched together with deep fried to extract lard crude oil 猪油)(set aside deep fried crispy pork lard croutons 猪油渣 equally condiments) or use other cooking crude oil of your choice
4 limes (cut to halves)(to hold out served equally condiments)
sambal chili (to hold out served equally condiments)
chili flakes (to hold out served equally condiments)

For Simplified Prawn Heads Stock Base

(Click here for instructions to ready a large pot to maintain inwards stock)

1 box prawn heads & shells (lunch box size)
250 ml homemade or shop bought chicken stock
500 ml water
1 pc ikan bills stock cube
5 ginger slices (crushed)
5 cloves garlic (crushed)
1 mid-sized onion (diced)
1 cinnamon stick
4 star anise
2 orangish cutis (available at Chinese medicinal halls)
3 bay leaves
a dash of fish sauce (or to taste)
a dash of chili or cayenne powder (or to taste)
salt together with carbohydrate (to accommodate to gustation accordingly)
cooking crude oil (for browning together with aromatics)

(tsp = teaspoon; tbsp = tablespoon)

Method :

Marinade seafood amongst a dash of salt, carbohydrate together with chili/cayenne pulverization for thirty minutes. Set aside.
Heat a lilliputian crude oil together with lightly sauté all aromatic ingredients (i.e. ginger, onions, garlic, cinnamon stick, star anise, orangish peel, bay leaves) in soup pot at medium estrus till aromatic.
Add prawn heads together with shells into the pot and sauté till fragrant.
Add chicken stock together with H2O into soup pot, embrace lid together with permit to simmer at medium estrus till boiled.
Upon boiling point, plough to depression estrus together with occur to simmer for 45 to threescore minutes or to your satisfied richness.
Adjust amongst salt, carbohydrate together with seasonings to your desired taste.
Remove scums together with strain stock. Set aside.
In a saucepan, add together penne pasta to boiling H2O (not mutual frigidness or warm water). Add a lilliputian cooking crude oil (so that pasta would non lump together) together with a pinch of salt. Allow pasta to ready together with rid excess starch for 1 minute at low-medium heat. At this stage, pasta is non softened together with nevertheless inedible. Drain together with laid aside.
Pre-heat oven at 230C.
Heat pork lard crude oil (or other cooking oil) inwards pan at medium heat. Toss inwards garlic slices together with sauté till fragrant.
Fold inwards seafood, pasta, prawn heads stock together with cooking cream. Lightly stir together with plough off estrus immediately. Allow pasta together with division to hold out 3/4 immersed inwards soup mixture.
Drizzle mozzarella cheese generously atop.
Bake whole pan inwards oven for 10 to fifteen minutes or till all ingredients are cooked amongst cheese melted together with slightly browned.
Remove from oven, gustation exam together with accommodate amongst tabular array salt together with seasonings to your satisfaction. At this stage, pasta should hold out al dente, seafood would hold out cooked amongst smokey acquit on together with broth's nevertheless moist together with rich underneath.
Garnish amongst parsley flakes together with serve hot straightaway amongst deep fried crispy pork lard croutons, cutting limes, sambal chili or/and chili flakes. Best served on banana leaves for the South East Asian tropical touch.

Note :

*Do serve straightaway later removal from oven. As the pasta's nevertheless immersed inwards broth, cream together with cheese,the longer the wait, the to a greater extent than soggy the pasta would turn. My plate of pasta turned slightly soggy later a fifteen minutes photoshoot session for the dish whilst my household unit of measurement members enjoyed the al dente ones. 😂😂😂