Thai-style Claypot Vermicelli Prawn

After a short 3d2n trip to BKK, I am figuring my next few dishes will be quite Thai-like.  Good for the husband and myself since we both enjoy thai food.  So, first on the menu will be Thai Style Vermicelli Prawns.  Before whipping up this dish, I contemplated very hard to just make my life easier by getting the pre-mix.  But, I cant get past myself by taking this short-cut.  Its not challenging enough.  LOL!  I thought, even if its not nice, it will at least be edible.  So, challenge accepted.  :P

Ingredients:
- 5 Medium Size prawns (devein and marinate with pinch of salt)
- Vermicelli (amt up to you, but must at least cover your claypot base)
- Cloves of garlic
- Ginger (chopped to about 5 cubes)
- Galangal (chopped to about 5 cubes)
- Red Onions (abt 2 pieces)
- Spring Onions (chopped into 2 inches, separate the greens from the whites)
- Lemon grass (abt 4 inch length, chopped diagonally into 1cm length, to release the fragrance)

Sauce:
- 1 tbsp. Oyster Sauce
- 2 tbsp. light soy sauce
- 1/2 tsp dark soy sauce
- 1 tbsp. Shaoxing Wine
- 1 tsp Thai Fish Sauce
- 2-3 tbsp. of water (depending on ur vermicelli)
- a dash of Black Pepper Powder (you can use peppercorns too)
- a dash of Red Chilli Powder

Steps:
1. Soak the vermicelli in tap water for 10 mins and strain off the excess water.  Using a scissors, cut the vermicelli so that its more manageable.  Add the sauce into the vermicelli and mix well.

2. Heat up the claypot with oil.  Coat the base evenly with oil to prevent sticking.

3. Toss the following, following this order: Ginger cubes, Galangal cubes, Lemon Grass, Garlic, Red Onions and green spring onions.  Stir fry each item till slightly aromatic before adding the next item.

3. Add the vermicelli into the claypot.  Spread them to cover the base.  Excess sauce to be poured into the claypot to simmer.   Cover the  claypot.

4. Abt 3 mins later, open the lid, lay the prawns nicely on top of the vermicelli.  Cover the lid.

5. Abt 2 mins later, open the lid and lay the white spring onions over the vermicelli.  Cover the lid and simmer for another 2 mins.

6.  Off fire and you are ready to serve. 

Hope you will like this simple dish. 

Happy mum