Dragonfruit Shrimps - ' Udang Buah Naga '

I was browsing through my colleague’s food magazine ‘ Rasa ’ the February issue and I came across this recipe which intrigued me to try it out. I find it light and refreshing after those heavy meat stuff we took during the recent festive season. It is called ‘ Udang Buah Naga ’ in our local language, translated it meant ‘ Dragonfruit Shrimps ’ :) savoury yet has a natural fruit sweetness from the dragonfruit. Knowing me I will never let this pass without trying it out and I was glad I tried it out. A healthy & savoury salad-like dish. A new dish to start the Ox-picious year :)))

The recipe does not have Japanese cucumber and button mushrooms, I added them coz I have some left-overs in the fridge. I gave it a tweak and added those to the dish :) . It somehow gave the dish a colorful look. I love it and Piggy gal loves it too but not the guys in the family. Daddy is not adventurous at all . He said he prefers the dragonfruit taken as a fruit and not as a veg dish :( Piggy boy not keen at all but he ate some so as not to offend me, I guess :P

Dragonfruit Shrimps

Ingredients:

1 dragonfruit – diced

200 gm shrimps – shelled and cleaned

(A)
30 gm carrots – sliced thinly
30 gm red capsicum – diced
30 gm green capsicum –diced
20 gm straw mushroom - * I used button mushroom- cut into two

10 gm chicken stock powder mixed with 3 tbsp water
2 tbsp olive oil

Method:

Heat up wok, add the olive oil and stir-fry the shrimps till just cook. Dish up and keep aside. Lightly stir-fry the rest of the ingredients (A) separately and dish up. Mixed all the ingredients together in the wok , add in the chicken stock mixture and dragonfruit and sitr-fry for 1 minute and dish up.

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