Spaghetti with Thai shrimp

Ingredients for 1 servings:

• 80g spaghetti
• 5 prawns, peeled, raw
• 1 pepper, red, mild
• 1 piece(s) ginger root
• 1 dashes lime juice
• 4 garlic cloves
• 1 tsp chili flakes
• 1 tbsp, levelled sugar or honey
• 3 tsp soy sauce
• 2 tsp fish sauce
• 1 tbsp sesame oil or olive oil
• 4 tbsp olive oil for frying
• 1 small piece(s) of butter for frying

Instructions

Working time approx. 15 minutes; Cooking/baking time approx. 15 minutes; Total time approx. 30 minutes

Bring a pot of salted water to a boil. Rinse the peeled prawns and pat dry. (I always use raw tiger prawns.) Peel and grate the ginger to make about a heaped teaspoon of ginger paste. Grate two garlic cloves to make about the same amount of garlic paste as ginger paste. Slice the chili peppers into thin rings. (If you like it spicy, you can of course use hot chili peppers.) Thinly slice the remaining garlic cloves. Cook the spaghetti in the pasta water according to the package instructions. Remove the spaghetti from the water 1 minute before it is al dente. Meanwhile, in a bowl large enough to hold all the prawns, combine a marinade of ginger and garlic paste, chili flakes (control the heat here; if you don’t like it spicy, use mild chili flakes instead of just 3 flakes), sesame oil, sugar or honey, and fish and soy sauce. If desired, add a small squeeze of lime juice to finish. Mix well and marinate the prawns in it; you can do this earlier and let the prawns marinate in the fridge, but it won’t make much difference to the taste. Heat a pan for the prawns 4 minutes before the end of the cooking time and add the prawns. Continuously toss the prawns in the boiling marinade, as the sugar should caramelize the marinade and stick to the prawns. Drain the pasta, reserving a small amount of the pasta water. In a separate pan, heat olive oil and butter until not too hot. Briefly fry the garlic slices and chili rings in it (the garlic should not change color). Then add the spaghetti and toss well with a little of the pasta water. Arrange the spaghetti on plates and place the prawns on top.