Prawn Toast

Name: Prawn Toast
Cuisine: China
Ingredients: 60 g (2¼ oz/1 cup) Japanese breadcrumbs (panko); vegetable oil, for deep-frying; sweet and sour sauce, to serve; 500 g (1 lb 2 oz) green king prawns (shrimp), peeled and deveined; 2 cloves garlic, finely chopped; 1 teaspoon sugar; ½ knob of ginger, peeled and finely chopped; 1 egg white; ½ teaspoon sea salt; 4 spring onions (scallions), finely chopped; 1 teaspoon sesame oil; 5 slices stale white bread, crusts removed; 1 egg, lightly beaten

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Balance and Harmony

By Neil Perry

Published 2008

About

This is classic Chinese restaurant fare, and why not? These are delicious morsels — great as a small starter or as pass-around food if you want to add an Asian flavour to your cocktail party. Again, just normal crumbs will do if you can’t find the Japanese panko crumbs.

Ingredients

500 g (1 lb 2 oz) green king prawns (shrimp), peeled and deveined<

Asia
China
Starter
Side dish
Pescatarian

Method

Put the prawns, garlic, ginger, sugar, salt, egg white and sesame oil in a food processor and process until smooth. Put the mixture in a bowl and stir in the spring onions.

Spread about 2 tablespoons of the prawn mixture to the edges of each piece of bread and cut each in ha