I know the picture isn’t the prettiest presentation of my new dinner recipe, but having the patience or skill to make plates look pretty just isn’t my forte ?

Plus, with hungry mouths to feed it’s usually a dump it on the plate as quick as possible situation with aquick pic if the kids can wait a beat, and then it’s chow down time ?

Nonetheless, this dinner was deeeee-licious!

Inspired by the memory of the incredible garlic butter prawns (shrimp) we ate from the food trucks in Hawaii, and in a bid to erase the memory of some tasteless, dry prawns in our recent Thai takeaway, I whipped up a new recipe for Garlic Butter Prawns and Coconut Rice which I served with a crunchy salad.

It was too easy and boy was it ever delicious! It’s so simple I wondered whether to bother blogging it but you all voted a resounding YES!

Many of the ingredients in this recipe can be sourced from my one-stop-favourite, organic wholefoods online store, The Wholefood Collective. They go to great lengths to ensure everything they source is amazing quality, they stock all my favorite products and I don’t even have to leave the house! Oh and the cherry on the cake is they donate profits to improve food security for vulnerable Aussies.

Here are some of the ingredients you’ll need:

Extra virgin olive oil
Sea salt
Basmati rice
Coconut milk

Tip: When buying prawns always try to get sustainable, Aussie, wild-caught prawns, much yummier and better for the environment than farmed or imported prawns.

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Garlic Prawns and Coconut Rice

Prep Time 20 minutes

Cook Time 30 minutes

Total Time 50 minutes

Servings 4

Author Brenda Janschek

Ingredients

GARLIC PRAWNS

• 20 prawns - shell devein and remove tails
• 1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil
• 4 tablespoons butter
• 6 garlic cloves peeled and finely chopped
• 1/2 cup continental parsley finely chopped
• Sea salt

COCONUT RICE

• 2 cups basmati rice
• 1 can coconut milk I use Ayam Brand
• 1.5 cups water
• 1 teaspoon sea salt

Instructions

GARLIC PRAWNS

• NB: Cook the prawns in two frying pans so they don't overcrowd the pan (which means halve all the ingredients into the two pans)
• Heat the oil and butter in each frying pan until butter is just melted and reduce heat to low. Add chopped garlic, parsley, prawns and salt. Cook for 1 minute then turn the prawns and cook for another minute or until prawns turn a deeper pink colour and are cooked through.
• Spoon prawns onto coconut rice, squeeze over some lemon, and serve with a big green, crunchy salad

COCONUT RICE

• Pop the rice on to cook and when almost ready, start cooking the prawns
• In a medium saucepan pop in rice, coconut milk, water and salt, stir and put lid on and cook on medium heat until boiling.
• Once boiling, turn down heat as low as you can go with the lid on, allowing rice to absorb the liquid. This should take around 20 minutes. Then turn heat off and leave the lid on so the rice can continue to steam for another 10 minutes. When ready to serve, fluff, and spoon onto plates.

Notes

You can just make plain rice if you prefer

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Some other delicious healthy treats you might like are Garlic Prawn and Pea Spaghetti and Easy Chicken and Vegetable Casserole.