Prawns on Brown Bread with Mayonnaise

Name: Prawns on Brown Bread with Mayonnaise
Yield: Serves 4
Ingredients: 4–8 leaves butterhead or oakleaf or lollo rosso lettuce; 4 slices of buttered Ballymaloe brown yeast bread (Simply Delicious); 3–4 tablesp. home-made Mayonnaise; sprigs of watercress, flat parsley, fennel or garden cress; 4 segments of lemon; 6 ozs (170 g) freshly cooked prawns or shrimps

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Simply Delicious 2

By Darina Allen

Published 1990

About

Don’t dismiss this very simple starter. Prawns are wonderful served on good, fresh bread with a home-made Mayonnaise.

Ingredients

6 ozs (170 g) freshly cooked prawns or shrimps
4–8 leaves

Starter
Snack
Pescatarian
Soup

Method

Put a slice of buttered bread on a plate, arrange 1 or 2 lettuce leaves on top and place 5–6 fat, freshly cooked prawns on the lettuce. Pipe a coil of home-made Mayonnaise on the prawns. Garnish with lemon wedges and sprigs of watercress, flat parsley, fennel or garden cress.