Asian Fusion Spicy Garlic Prawns Pasta Recipe

Being an Asian, we thought of adding a twist to one of our favourite pasta - Aglio Olio. Hence, we are preparing to introduce some Asian elements in this dish, including added heat elements to prawns, spring onions, sesame oil, oyster sauce and soy sauce. Amazingly, it turned out to be a rather great combination! The resultant spaghetti is akin to Asian style stir fried noodles with pasta texture.

Ingredients

1. Deshell the prawns. Prepare the prawns according to your own preferred serving style. I deshell and devein the prawns, then use kitchen napkin to dry it.

2. Prepare spring onion condiments. Cut the spring onions into small slices, then mix it with minced ginger and salt to taste into a pestle. Use a mortar to pound it. If you do not have a pestle and mortar, use blender instead. Transfer the prepared condiments to a holding cup. 

3. Bring up the spring onion flavours. In a medium heat skillet, add olive oil and a tablespoon of sesame oil. When the oil started to heat up, pour it over to the spring onion condiments and you will hear a sizzling sound. 

4. Cook the pasta. Add your pasta to the pot of boiling hot water, add some salt and olive oil.

5. Prepare the sauce. In a clean skillet, add olive oil, then gentle stir your prawns. In the process, add the chili flakes, light soy sauce and oyster sauce. Thin the sauce using the pasta water if needed.

6. Add the pasta into the sauce. Once the pasta cooked, add the pasta into the skillet of prepared sauce and stir well. 

7. Add the spring onion condiments. After the pasta is stir well with the prawns and its sauce, add the spring onion condiments prepared earlier and mix well. 

8. Serve and enjoy your unique Asian Fusion Spicy Garlic Prawn Pasta!