Marinated prawns

Name: Marinated prawns
Prep time: 10 min
Total time: 4 h 10 min
Yield: Serves: 4 as a starter
Ingredients: 2 spring onions or ¼ red onion, chopped very finely; 1 sprig of parsley, chopped finely; salt and pepper; 12–16 large cooked prawns or 60 small cooked prawns (see tips); ½ bunch fresh basil; 1 clove garlic; juice of ½ a lemon; 1 teaspoon Dijon mustard; 4 tablespoons olive oil

Preparation info

Serves:
4
as a starter

Difficulty
Easy
Ready in
4 hr 30

Appears in

Lucy's Food

By Lucy Cufflin

Published 2013

About

Here’s a recipe that makes use of any kind of prawns, from the small, shell-on, frozen Atlantic prawns to huge, exotic Madagascan ones. It is also foolproof – a recipe that leaves nothing to chance and takes minutes to prepare.

Ingredients

1 clove garlic
1 teaspoon Dijon mustard
juice of ½

Starter
Lunch
Pescatarian
Gluten-free

Method

Chop the garlic finely and while it is still on the chopping board, sprinkle it with salt. Using a table knife work the salt and garlic together. The salt will act as an abrasive and the garlic will turn to a paste.
Put the garlic paste into a bowl and add the mustard, lemon juice, oil, onion and parsley and mix well. Taste it and season. Add the prawns, stir w