CHILL after a long week with a bowl of something spicy.

This Thai green prawn curry is fragrant, flavoursome and makes a great midweek or even a special weekend dinner.

Best of all, it’s low in fat and it’s a great way to use up those left over frozen prawns you may have in your freezer after Christmas.

Ingredients:

400g of frozen uncooked prawns (defrosted)

An inch of fresh ginger peeled

3 cloves of garlic

1 red and 1 green chilli (chopped)

1 medium peeled onion (quartered)

1 tsp of ground cumin

2 cardoon pods, split, using the seeds only

1 tsp of Thai green curry paste

100ml of chicken stock

1 small tin of low fat coconut milk

A good handful of fresh coriander roughly chopped

A good pinch of dried mint

Method:

In a handheld food processor, put in the ginger, onion, chillies, garlic, Thai paste and all the spices and whizz it up until it resembles a smooth paste.

Heat up a little olive oil in a large frying pan and add the spicy paste to the pan.

Gently, on a medium heat, cook the spice mix for approximately five minutes.

Once ready, add your chicken stock and coconut milk, and gently simmer again for a further 15 minutes.

You will notice it may evaporate.

If this is the case, top it up with a little water.

For the last three minutes of cooking time, add your prawns and stir thoroughly.

When the prawns are pink, the dish is ready to be served.

Serve with basmati rice.

Lesley has finished all of her studies and she is now qualified in advanced nutrition.

This covers a variety of areas, including child nutrition, weight management, psychology and behaviour change, pre and postnatal, and nutrition for athletes, sports and fitness.

Lesley is a typical busy mum to two children.

She is now following her passion and dreams, via "Nourish" nutrition with Lesley.

Her whole ethos about food has always been to make simple, tasty and nutritious food that everyone loves - as well as feeding the tummy.

Lesley firmly believes that food is good for our mental health and well-being, in addition to keeping us nourished, of course!

She firmly believes that diets do not work in the long term.

Lesley says a quick fix doesn't teach the individual anything about the long-term plan after the "diet" has ended and how to go about maintaining the new shape afterwards.

She stresses that a person’s wellness is founded on education, learning how to best care for themselves on a daily basis by eating real, unprocessed foods and by incorporating some activity into their daily routines.

At "Nourish" nutrition with Lesley, she can offer tips and advice on lifestyle nutrition maintenance, weight management coaching, child nutrition and obesity prevention and behaviour change coaching.

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