Prawn, Bacon and Cream Cheese Pâté

Name: Prawn, Bacon and Cream Cheese Pâté
Yield: Serves 6
Ingredients: 1 rounded tbsp finely chopped parsley; 1 tbsp lemon juice; 1 garlic clove, skinned and very finely chopped; Freshly ground black pepper; 3 rashers bacon; 8 oz/225 g cream cheese; 3 oz/84 g cooked, shelled prawns; 3 oz/84 g cooked, shelled prawns

Preparation info

Serves
6

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Claire Macdonald Cookbook

By Claire Macdonald

Published 1997

About

Shellfish and bacon go well together. This pâté is very quick and easy to make, and is heavenly to eat. We get huge, delicious prawns, up to 3 inches/7.5 cm long. Sometimes we get squat lobster tails, which are very good for this recipe.

Ingredients

3 oz/84 g cooked, shelled prawns
3 rashers

Main course
Gluten-free

Method

Chop the prawns. Fry the bacon until crisp, drain it on kitchen paper and break it into small pieces. If you have a food processor, put the cream cheese in and whiz until smooth. Otherwise put the cream cheese into a bowl and pound it until it is as smooth as possible.

Don’t add the rest of the ingredients to the food processor, because the whole pâté will become too smooth – one of its