Prawn Toasts
"I've always had to indulge myself w/these Asian treats on Dim Sum excursions w/my Sister & BIL when we'd visit them in Florida & now in Dallas. Then it would be another long yr or so before I could eat them again ... UNTIL I read a recent article at an Australian food site & realized how easy they really are to make. Ingredient issues here in Iceland can often prevent my culinary adventures, but these prawn toasts look yummy, ingredient-friendly, prep-friendly & entirely TwisSis-proof. ENJOY!"
Ingredients
Nutritional
- Serving Size: 1 (48.6 g)
- Calories 162.6
- Total Fat - 10.8 g
- Saturated Fat - 3.3 g
- Cholesterol - 19.1 mg
- Sodium - 87 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 10.5 g
- Dietary Fiber - 1.1 g
- Sugars - 0.9 g
- Protein - 6 g
- Calcium - 102.3 mg
- Iron - 1.8 mg
- Vitamin C - 0.2 mg
- Thiamin - 0.1 mg
Step by Step Method
Step 1
FOR PRAWN TOPPING: Combine prawn & cornflour in a bowl. Then transfer to a sieve & run under cold water for 5-10 seconds. Drain & thoroughly pat dry w/a paper towel. Finely chop prawns, then use the side of a knife to crush them into a coarse paste. Transfer prawn paste to a bowl with 11/2 tsp salt. Using clean hands, knead until well combined. Add remaining ingredients & stir until well combined.
Step 2
Place sesame seeds in a shallow dish. Spread 3 tsp of the prawn paste over ea bread triangle. Dip bread (prawn-side down) into the sesame seeds & place on a tray. Repeat w/remaining bread, prawn mixture & sesame seeds.
Step 3
Half-fill a deep-fryer, wok or lrg saucepan w/sunflower oil & heat to 360F (a cube of bread will turn golden in 90 seconds when oil is hot enough). Deep-fry the toasts (prawn-side down) for 1 min. Then turn & cook another 30-60 seconds or until golden. Remove w/a slotted spoon & drain on paper towel. Serve immediately.
Step 4
NOTE #1: The recipe yield = 16 toasts & showed that # as the # of servings. I'm sure some would see that yield as 8 servings, so you decide this for yourself.
Step 5
NOTE #2: Care should be taken in Prep Step #1. The 5-10 second rinse shouldn't be aggressive. It's not meant to remove a major part of the cornstarch, but rather to dampen it w/moisture enough to create the paste. To prevent an "accident", you may want to consider simply adding water by teaspoonfuls until a paste consistency is reached.
Step 6
NOTE #3: Frankly, I see no reason to deep-fry these toasts in a lrg amt of oil or use "fancy" equipment when they can be shallow-fried, turned & removed from the oil w/a slotted spoon so easily. So this is another choice you can make.
Tips
- No special items are required.