A home brunch with BB during lockdown: laksa, dressed up the way we like it. 🍜😋

What we made:

Prima Taste laksa as the base
A soft-boiled egg, sliced fishcake, peeled prawns, bean sprouts, scallion and extra chilli

The Prima Taste laksa pack has earned a permanent spot in our pantry, and Saturday brunch is when we cash it in. It deserves the hype: it uses a proper paste pouch with real coconut, lemongrass, candlenut and chilli rather than a dusty powder packet, so the broth actually tastes like laksa.

A little effort turns it into a proper bowl. The broth pouch blooms in a bit of oil with coconut milk and stock until rich and fragrant, then the noodles go in and everything gets topped. A soft-boiled egg with a runny yolk, fishcake pan-fried for a bit of char, prawns blanched in the broth at the end so they stay sweet, bean sprouts for crunch and scallion for green. We add most of the chilli pouch for a heat that stands up to the coconut richness.

The result eats almost like a hawker bowl, which is high praise for something that started as an instant pack. A warm, spicy, coconutty bowl at home on a slow Saturday was one of the small wins those lockdown weekends were full of.

Overall: 4.5 / 5. 😋👍🏼 Rich, coconutty laksa dressed up with a runny egg, sweet prawns and a good hit of chilli. Keeping the rotation.

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