A Thai here and I understand where she's getting at. It looks like an easier version of "baked prawns with glass noodles" It's traditionally served in a steaming hot pot with spice in the bottom so it's easier to eat. And we also use pork belly as the fat element and it adds that umami flavor to it.

I could probably listen to her talk about making food all day. I could practically taste it based on her descriptions.

I'm going to try this but I don't know, maybe I break the cinnamon and the star anise in a little cloth pouch so they release the flavour without getting in the food.

Huge nigella fan but let's be real here. You can't put whole shards of cinnamon in a dish like this. Take it out of the sauce before you add the prawns.

im really bothered with the chunks of cinnamon barks

@ArchiesOrchids

7 жыл бұрын

Felix Jocel Maquiso ha i got that

@slemgurt2

6 жыл бұрын

OMG!!!! i maek this dish for my nephew and and the cinamun cut his mouth, crying and blood everywhere!!! i took him to hospital because he needed stitches and now my sister hates me!!!!!!!!!! :'(

@upasanasaha774

6 жыл бұрын

slemgurt2 pity for you... I hope your sister forgives you...

@jovinlai3717

6 жыл бұрын

slemgurt2 I hope you were joking, but yes my jaw dropped when she crushed n threw the cinnamon sticks in

@uniquename846

5 жыл бұрын

@@jovinlai3717 yeah wouldn't there be little splinters of it everywhere... I don't like to eat food where I got to watch out for stuff, I like to go fast

Probably not the best idea to break Ceylon cinnamon into shards since, as numerous commenters have pointed out, it goes into a million pieces and will be bothersome to pick out while eating. Better to leave it whole or use cassia bark (the variety of cinnamon typically sold in North America), which is thicker and doesn't splinter as much when broken. Still, I'm very tempted to try this.

Those spices... Booby trap, I called them. Make awesome dishes with them but an accidental bite of them will put you off the dish itself.

That is an insane amount of cinnamon for this dish. :P

someone is going to break a tooth on all that cinnamon

I'm a huge fan, but all those sharp, evil looking shards of cinnamon, viciously tangled up in those snarly noodles, is just wrong. I'd avoid that dish if I saw it on the table.

@temsulonglemdur2497

6 жыл бұрын

Being an asian myself, to me, that looks perfectly fine. Just pick it out when you eat. It isn't hard a 6 year old could do it. Stop being spoilt

@weiyili9740

6 жыл бұрын

Temsulong Lemdur The way she breaks the cinnamon still allows small sharp shards to hide in the midst of the noodles. There are much better ways to prepare the cinnamon.

@ohdamnman

5 жыл бұрын

More for me

@browngirl9746

5 жыл бұрын

@@temsulonglemdur2497 I'm Asian too, born and bred in Singapore, and a classically trained chef. And sharp shards of anything on a plate, unless it's chocolate, is never alright. But I'll tell you what it is. It's a hazzard. She should have left the cinnamon in quills or used ground cinnamon, so anyone eating this, need not worry about small shards getting tangled in the snarly noodles that may escape detection and end up in their gullet, as happens with fish bones. Everything in that dish, is brown. So easy for a shard to hide in those noodles. How is it possible that you cannot see the possibility of this happening? Calling out a hazzard does not make me spoilt. Or do you think that perhaps, having a white-sounding name, makes me automatically "spoilt"? especially since I'm talking about an Asian dish? Racist much? Don't make assumptions like I wouldn't know what Asian food should be like, based on my name. I have the right to express my (educated) opinion without being labelled "spoilt". Instead, why don't you 1) stop being presumptuous about me, and people in general, and 2) stop being an opinion nazi?

seriously ? no one thinks that's too much cinnamon ??

@blackiesun

6 жыл бұрын

I think so. It is a strong spice as well...

@tescoprimark1299

3 жыл бұрын

Me

Why is it that when we, Westerners try to make Thai, Japanese, Moroccan, Lebanese, Chinese or Vietnamese food, we tend to miss things up?

It looks good but cinnamon shards are not edible.

This is amazing. I just added the cinnamon stick whole and took it out 👍

@scswp6945

2 жыл бұрын

Me too!

Now only if she'd let that sauce in the pan reduce abit and become sticky and remove the cinnamon shards before adding in the noodles .still this looks great

Its 5.09am here in Scotland but I could eat that now ☺☺ One thing Im not sure about is leaving the shards of cinnamon in the meal. Surely that could be dangerous for choking. Saying that, I'd still eat the plateful ❤❤❤

I love the way you pronounced ‘kicap manis’ with Keychapp Maness

I'm in love with her voice/accent. It's heavenly.

@Ibritadamfan

5 жыл бұрын

Helay Nelson I take it you’re an American?

@helaynelson8505

5 жыл бұрын

@@Ibritadamfan No. African actually.

@Ibritadamfan

5 жыл бұрын

Helay Nelson ok

the asians never use cinnamon that way.it's too much. and also the soya sauce should never be cooked to bubble up that way. just a little thought.

I think you can easily substitute the Chinese celery with a combination of parsley and coriander.

@Bj-yf3im

6 жыл бұрын

Edward Lee Thanks for the suggestion! 😊

Great recipe, i love it! Bravissima!

I like to look at her when talking than looking at the food 😂😂

My favorite dish.

As delicious as this sounds, it seems kind of pointless putting in crumbled shards of cinnamon when they're not to be eaten. You'd have to spend all your time picking them out as you're trying to eat.

Pretty simple to make!

Only a milliOn shards of cinammon.. MmmMm how exciting.. lets put a pinch more.

Excellent knife use!

Receipes and process are so easy to understand, and outcomes are successful and absolutely delicious. Nigella, you are not only a lovely, beautiful woman, but an encouraging inspiration. Cooking is a soothing tranquilizer for me, and I know it must be the same for you. Gets one through those difficult days with a smile.

@FarhanAmin1994

2 жыл бұрын

Beautifully said, Ms Hall :)

So she just threw scented splinters into the sauce...yummy

Not sure about the shards of cinnamon. You could just break it in half only. Then pick it out at the end. Or even just leave it whole. Why break it up?

Can't wait to try this recipe.😊🍜

I’d call this stir fried cinnamon noodles.

Is it just me or is the thought of eating pasta with cinnamon shards and a whole star anise not so appealing?

In Asia we don't mind put the cinnamon in a meal. We put in curry, soup etc.

กุ้งอบวุ้นเส้น Wow

@havekrub

5 жыл бұрын

น่าจะเป็น วุ้นเส้นผัดซีอิ๊วใส่กุ้ง มากกว่า ครับ

Before even the barks were added I thought this was an awful dish but then she put ground cloves and even more cinnamon in ground cinnamon! How can somebody with such a high level intellect like Nigella put such an awful dish together! Wow, beggars belief, maybe one in ten dishes of Nigella’s great. Meh, I never come to see her cooking anyway so I shouldn’t complain.

Those cinnamon sticks and ground cinnamon were too much for that cooking portion.

wouldn't you get shards of cinnamon stick in your teeth? not very pleasurable having to pick them off the noodles while eating...

@JonkingxJonAedynKing

7 жыл бұрын

Most Thai food has inedible bits of green bits; Lime leaves, lemongrass, chunks of galangal. You must understand they think differently. Liken it to bits of bone you might get on your plate, they're there to show you how the food was cooked and that it is authentic, but you don't eat it. So it's like the vegetarian bones as it were. Hope that helps you rethink it.

@muhammad96able

7 жыл бұрын

Not just Thai, mostly Asian cookings will have inedible spices in it. But Cinnamon stick shouldnt crack up like that. Just saute it long enough in the oil it will give out the good amount of aroma and taste.

Awesome

I am a huge fan of Nigella, but this dish is just.... No. You don't break the cinnamon like this for a noodle dish; it can easily cut your mouth. Also such a big stick of cinnamon for one serving is totally unnecessary; I add this amount for a pot of stew. The seasoning for this dish is heavy but one-dimensional salty, so it really needs more balancing, at least with a bit of lime in the end or more sugar to cut the saltiness. A dark brown bowl of glass noodles with overpowering cinnamon flavour is not pleasant, trust me.

As a Thai, I approve

Yeah, I don't think so. There's too much of the 'warm' spices in this dish.

by the comments below, I am not the only one to think if not say the 'bark" bits are stupid!

Do the raw frozen prawns go in frozen? And can Frozen cooked prawns also go straight in without defrosting?

if you all are that disheveled and sprightly bothered by the ominous SHARDS of cinnamon, well take them out for God's sake!

@perfumaphilia3246

5 жыл бұрын

Who wants to wade through a huge tangle of noodles to pick out each individual shard of cinnamon bark?

Yummy

Beautiful! 😍🥰

I don't like glass noodles, I'd much rather prefer egg noodles. yum.

Cinnamon and star anise in fried meehun...

Uhmmmm.. Did Nigella eat the cinnamon barks?? Or is it just me?? 🤔🤔🤔

This looks lovely, but there is nothing remotely Thai about it.

C'est vraiment très appétissant !

no fish sauce?????? hmmmm weird!?

@strangerthings88

5 жыл бұрын

sayali aaghav she used oyster sauce dingus

I couldn't get the celery or cinnamon sticks..... We'll see how it ends up. Cooking it later

I feel sympathy for your taste.

Ketchup soy manis is sweet soy sauce😂Manis means sweet

Those chuck of cinnamon will simply burn the throat! my goodness

That's a dangerous dish

01:58 Some kecap menis....hahahaha....i heard that words....KECAP MANIS.....Bahasa Indonesia in Thai Cooking....

@sa2stellar

8 жыл бұрын

She pronounced it quite well tho

@NONA_NONI

8 жыл бұрын

Yesss....that's way i knew

Love Nigella but there is Waaaaay too much cinnamon in this dish 😅

It probably tastes fine, but is it Thai? I have never seen Thai food look like this

@MayKlakasikit

7 жыл бұрын

coralarch I believe this one is inspired by one of thai noodle dishes called Kung Op Woon Sen (กุ้งอบวุ้นเส้น).

@chaunchomlikhittkul2169

7 жыл бұрын

Casseroled Shrimps with Glass Noodles - Kung Op Woon Sen ( in Thai write กุ้งอบวุ้นเส้น)

@Bj-yf3im

6 жыл бұрын

coralarch The stir-fried veggie+star anise&cinnamon+soy-element looks like a Chinese influence. Southeast Asian cooking traditions were heavily inspired by India and China.

For an asian, cinammon in a noodle dish really is very very very disturbing... It's like putting mustard in your dumpling. I always find westerners to put their own twist to Asian cooking but failed miserably..utterly disgusting combination

Those cinnamon barks will simply irritate your gums or mouth. I wonder if Nigella will eat the cinnamon bark herself.

@strangerthings88

5 жыл бұрын

Raselon Pena she clearly says it’s not edible. Do you people have ears? Lol

Thai cooking as you've never had it, cuz ain't nothing Thai about this.

@brandon3872

4 жыл бұрын

Lol, exactly 😅

So much cinnamon! Bleh!!!!

So much of cinnamon WL ruin the taste

She z awsum......

Too much cinnamon

She had put too much of cinnamon... The cinnamon which she called chards are almost pounded which I am sure she is going to eat...

What the hell is "school pepper"?....

@raymondkinsella2484

6 жыл бұрын

James Zhu she’s just referring to the kind of pepper you’d use in a school canteen, table pepper!

@jameszhu2514

6 жыл бұрын

Raymond Kinsella Ah makes sense. She seems to talk in inneuendo and rhyme half the time

Why is everyone bitching about the cinnamon?! Pick it out if you don't want to eat!

Mmmmmmmmilff

What the hell😭

Too salty for this dish!!!

Tasty food is a gift of God, the greatest, free gift is heaven to those who believe God Jesus died n arose on the 3rd day. C Living bread in Google....

More likeThai cooking as you will never taste it 😷

oh my...you call that Thai? please stick to what you know. you are ruining pad Thai for those new to it.

@neoizm

6 жыл бұрын

Shasha Lee this is not supposed to be pad thai

Rubbish