My Fail-Safe Thai Prawn Salad...

Calories: Approx 129 per person. Serves 2

I am such a lucky girl to live in this great village. Not only is it in the beautiful countryside, home to lots of friends, it also houses The Running Fox (http://runningfoxbakery.co.uk/)- one of the best bakeries/ cafes around. People flock from miles to sample their amazing breads, pies and cakes and their famous afternoon teas. You should see the size of the things - you wouldn't eat for a week (although, i'm so greedy, i'd probably manage!). Today, my friend and I treated ourselves to the dish of the day for lunch- speciality burgers in cheese and pickle rolls. I had the pork and apple burger.  It was completely delicious and there wasn't a morsel left. Yum, yum, yum.  My friend had the beef and stilton burger and judging by her plate, she was equally as pleased with it.  She then had a toffee apple tart and I helped her with it!! I'm salivating as I type.

This doesn't happen very often but I am also going to the other fabulous eatery in the village, The Northumberland Arms for lunch tomorrow. It's a lovely pub and restaurant and it is always fantastic!  http://www.northumberlandarms-felton.co.uk/

How lucky am I?!!

Now to devise a calorie-free supper to counteract my gluttony. Hmmm, think it'll have to be.....

My Fail-Safe Thai Prawn Salad. 

I basically marinate cooked, peeled prawns in a mixture of juice of 1 lime, chilli flakes (I like mine nice and hot!), approx 1 tbsp thai fish sauce, a tsp of sugar, 1 clove of garlic, half a thumb of ginger, some chopped coriander and approx 2 tbsps rice wine vinegar then when they've been soaking for a while (as long as your hunger will allow) use the marinade as a dressing for the salad.  If I have any mango, I like to have that in the salad too - it goes so nicely together. I use a basic salad of loads of baby leaves, cucumber, tomatoes, radishes and the mango. Nothing too fancy as I don't want anything clashing or overshadowing the mango and the marinade.

This is super-fast, super-easy, super-healthy and super-deelish- perfect!

I've calculated that the calories for the marinade, prawns and mango (based on 180g prawns and 1 large mango) are 258 so that's 129 per person. Fab!!

Enjoy!

Update 3rd March 2014

I only had raw prawns tonight so I upped some of the ingredients in the marinade as I knew I'd lose some during the cooking. I also added 3 sliced spring onions. I used 2 limes, a good few splashes (prob about a couple of tbsps) of fish sauce, about the same of rice vinegar, about half an inch if ginger, a heaped tsp sugar, 1 large clove garlic, fresh coriander and loads of chilli flakes. I had some lazy lemongrass and galangal so I added those too. 

I chucked it all in a hot wok and let it cook for as short a time as possible until the prawns were cooked through. Then I put it all on top of my salad and mixed it through. It was fab. So zingy and fresh and good for the soul! Yum, yum, yum. 

The calories would be slightly higher here as I used more lime, fish sauce and vinegar and also the lazy lemongrass is pretty calorific. Still low fat and seriously good for you though!