Prawns with White wine reduction sauce and Crème Fraîche

When you come home after a long hard day, sometimes all you want to do is get in your comfy clothes on the sofa in front of the tele and not worry about anything. BUT what about that all important dinner!! You are hungry but cant be bothered to cook?? Don't worry its a very normal feeling that most of us have and just wish you had someone who could just serve you your dinner in hand :) This is when all of us need to get a little creative and make your ingredients work for you. We want some thing nice, something hot and something quick. This was exactly the state of mind I was in, when I made these prawns. I have been trying to eat healthy and am keen on getting my husband to eat healthy too, so we tried to give this a go for him. Trust me this doesn't more than 10 mins if you have all the things you need. Most of the ingredients here are you daily ingredients, all you may want to buy is crème fraîche, if you have just regular cream that will work too, but sour cream or crème fraîche just make it a little lighter. So if you want to give this a go, here is what you need:

Shopping List:

1.  250 gms cooked and peeled king prawns. If you like to use fresh, by all means do so. I just needed a quick dinner so, I used our frozen cooked prawns.
2. 1 finely diced shallot or regular red onion is good too.
3. 1 big clove of garlic
4. 1 teaspoon grainy mustard
5. 1 teaspoon Djon mustard, english mustard is fine too, but use it as per you heat tolerance levels. English mustard can be quite hot and sharp.
6. 1/3rd cup white wine. Use your best wine, I have a very simple rule, if you cant drink it, you can't cook with it!
7. Fine chopped parsley 1 table spoon. Try and use fresh parsley if you can, but if you have dry parsley that will taste nice too.
8. Salt and pepper to taste.
9. 1 tablespoon fat free Crème Fraîche or Sour Cream
10. 1 inch cube of chilled butter.
11. 1/2 teaspoon sunflower oil, use any flavourless oil.
12. Half a lemon

Lets Cook or should I say lets put it together :-)

1. In a non stick pan heat up oil and add shallots and garlic. Don't let them turn brown, you just want to sweat them and cook until they are translucent.
2. Add the Wine and cook it down to half. This is very important and doesn't take more than 2 mins. Just keep stirring and let the wine cook down and reduce. 
3. Cut up the butter in small pieces and add one at a time melting it into the sauce, this will help butter melt nicely in the sauce and not split.
4. Add the Crème Fraîche and then stir in the mustard. Let everything bubble away for ahlf a minute.
5. Add salt and pepper as per taste, squeeze the lemon in and add the Prawns . Warm the prawns through for 5 mins.
6. Just before you turn off the heat add the parsley to freshen everything up.
7. That's it, under 10 mins you have a beautiful meal, you can have it by itself or like me if you like brown rice or wild rice, serve it on the bed of nice brown rice. I made my rice by simply boiling some long grain brown rice with 2 green cardamom pods cracked and added to the boiling rice pot to give it some nice subtle cardamom flavour. Or just have it with a nice chunk of warm bread. 

I do hope you enjoy cooking and eating this as much as we did :)

Bon Appétit !!