Prawn cakes
By: Bill Granger From: Good Food Bites
Printer friendly version
-
Prawn cakes
- Prep time:
- 20 mins
- Cook time:
- 5 mins
- Serves:
- 4
A zingy coriander dressing adds zip to freshly-fried prawn dumplings in Bill Grainger's Thai-inspired seafood starter
Similar recipes
Related Videos
Ingredients
- 500g raw Prawns, peeled
- 1 tbsp Fish Sauce
- 1 green chilli, chopped
- 2 clove Garlic, crushed
- ½ tsp Turmeric
- ½ tsp ground white pepper
- 2 tbsp coriander roots, plus leaves chopped
- 3 Spring onions, finely sliced
- plain flour, for coating
- sprigs of Coriander, optional
- 225ml vegetable oil
For the coriander dipping sauce:
- 3 clove Garlic, peeled
- 2 large green chillies, seeded and roughly chopped
- 1 tbsp Palm sugar
- 4 tbsp fresh lime juice
- 3 tsp Fish Sauce
- 1 large bunch of Coriander, roughly chopped
- 3 tbsp water
Method
1. Place the prawns, fish sauce, green chilli, garlic, turmeric, white pepper and chopped coriander in a food processor and process to a paste. Fold in the sliced spring onions.2. Shape the prawn mixture into 8-10 little balls, 3cm in diameter, and roll in flour to coat lightly.
3. To make the dipping sauce, place the garlic, green chillies, palm sugar, lime juice, fish sauce, coriander and water in a blender or food processor and blend until combined. Pour into a small serving bowl.
4. Heat the vegetable oil in a deep frying pan until hot.
5. Add in the prawn balls and shallow-fry until golden on all sides, around 5 minutes. Remove with a slotted spoon and drain on kitchen paper.
6. Serve the pork balls with the dipping sauce, coriander sprigs and toothpicks or tiny cocktail forks.
Comments & Ratings
You need to be logged in to comment or rate this recipe
Register
Latest Comment
I made these for a special lunch and they were delicious and easy to make (apart from having to de-vein a lot of prawns as I used king prawns!?). Couldn't get the palm sugar last time so I just used light brown sugar which seemed fine. I am planning to make them again as a starter so thought I would just double check the recipe. Oh and the dipping sauce is lovely with them!