Prawn Toast

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

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
Side dish
Starter
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