A Very Inauthentic Prawn Toast

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Preparation info
  • Serves

    4

    • Difficulty

      Easy

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Chinese-ish: Home cooking, not quite authentic, 100% delicious

By Joanna Hu and Rosheen Kaul

Published 2022

  • About

This prawn toast recipe is special: it’s an Asian-Australian version of the beloved yum cha classic. It’s also an ode to hot summers spent eating plentiful fresh prawns with lemon wedges. There’s a little nod to the strong Italian influence in Melbourne via the guanciale that you fold through the prawn mix for gloriously salty, porky morsels. You should always have a stash of seafood in your freezer, in case you want to whip up something delicious on a whim. Highly perishable seafood is oft