Prawns 🍤 salad with brown rice

All Salad lovers out there; if you want to put together a very simple salad which has the goodness of all that macros, this is the one to go for. This is highly protein packed because of the prawns addition,
and my addiction to Prawns helps me to have protein this way easily :P Oh my philosophy is going overboard sometimes right :P

Ok then, not going to much into philosophy and making you bored, coz I dont want you guys to stop reading this post now and miss such an awesome lunch or dinner idea, which is healthy wholesome, lovely...oh no again ;)

Ingredients:

Brown rice cooked

Prawns salad :

Prawns cleaned and deveined- 200 gms

Chilly powder - 1 tsp

Pink salt to taste

Onion powder 1 tsp

Garlic powder 1 tsp

Pepper powder 1/2 tsp

Garlic chopped 2 tbsp

Ginger chopped 1 tbsp

Beans cut lengthwise 1 cup

Green peas -1/4cup

Egg plant diced - 1/4 cup

Cherry tomatoes 🍒 7 to 8

Basil 🌿

Method:

Pour a little coconut oil or any cooking oil of your choice.
Add garlic , ginger and cook for 1 min. Now add veggies one by one, beans, egg plant , peas and cook for 2 to 3 mins. Now add marinated prawns 🍤. Cook for 3 0r 4 minutes. Be careful not to over cook. Check for salt . Add the cherry tomato 🍅 and chopped basil.

Cook for another minute. Serve with brown rice 🍚

Arrange brown rice and salad side to side. I used my home made tahini as spread for the salad.
What I did is took 1 tbsp Tahini and diluted it with 2 tsp lemon juice and 1 tbsp water to form a flowy consistency for the spread. Now just dive into the divinity :)

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