Prawn Filling

Name: Prawn Filling
Yield: serves 4
Ingredients: 1 teaspoon salt; 8 oz Chinese leaves – finely shredded; 1 tablespoon vegetable oil; 1 tablespoon rice wine or dry sherry; 3 oz spring onions – trimmed and finely chopped; 2 cloves garlic – peeled and minced; 1 teaspoon fresh root ginger – peeled and finely grated; 2 tablespoon hoisin or barbecue sauce; 1 tablespoon sesame oil; 8 oz prawns – cooked and shelled; 1 tablespoon dark soy sauce

Preparation info

serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Independent Cook

By Jeremy Round

Published 1988

About

Ingredients

8 oz Chinese leaves – finely shredded
1 teaspoon salt
1

Sauce
April

Method

Sprinkle the shredded Chinese leaves with the salt and leave to degorge for 20 minutes. Rinse well under cold running water, then squeeze out dry in your fist.

Heat vegetable oil in a small frying pan. In it, fry the ginger, garlic and onion for a minute or two, stirring all the time. Add rice wine or sherry, soy, hoisin and sesame oil, then reduce until the sauce is very thick and syru