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Preparation info
  • Serves

    4

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in

By Itamar Srulovich and Sarit Packer

Published 2014

  • About

Try this when you get your hands on fresh, good-looking prawns – small ones work best: about the size of your little finger. It’ll make for a very pure and flavoursome mouthful, and may give you a new lease on happiness.

Ingredients

  • 8–12 fresh prawns (depending on size)
  • 1 red chilli
  • sea salt
  • 1 lem

Method

Peel and de-head the prawns. Lay each one on its side on the chopping board, slit along the back, remove the brown intestine line and then slice it down the middle lengthways, opening it into two halves. Spread all the prawn halves flat on a serving plate, cut surfaces facing up, and pat them down a little with your fingers to flatten.

Cut the chilli into rings, as thinly as you can, an