Thai Noodles With Cinnamon And Prawns | Nigella's Recipes | Nigella Lawson

Ingredients

• 1 x 15ml tablespoon sunflower oil
• 2 cloves garlic (peeled and roughly chopped)
• 15 grams fresh ginger (peeled and cut into fine matchsticks)
• 1 star anise
• ½ long or 1 short cinnamon stick (broken into shards)
• 2 - 3 leafy stems at the top of a stick of celery (stems cut into short lengths, leaves roughly chopped)
• 1½ x 15ml tablespoons light soy sauce
• 1 x 15ml tablespoon dark soy sauce
• 1 x 15ml tablespoon oyster sauce
• ¼ teaspoon ground white pepper
• 100 millilitres cold water
• 1 teaspoon chicken stock concentrate
• 1 x 15ml tablespoon ketjap manis (or 1 tablespoon dark soy sauce mixed with 1 tablespoon soft dark brown sugar)
• 10 peeled raw king prawns (thawed if frozen)
• 80 grams glass noodles or rice vermicelli (soaked and drained as per packet instructions)
• 1 fat pinch of ground cinnamon
• 1 fat pinch of ground cloves