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Prawn cakes

Bill Granger from Good Food Bites
A zingy coriander dressing adds zip to freshly-fried prawn dumplings in Bill Grainger's Thai-inspired seafood starter

Prawn cakes

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.

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Serves: 4

Prep: 20 min
Cook: 5 min

Ingredients
500g raw Prawns, peeled
1 tbsp Fish Sauce
1 green chilli, chopped
2 garlic clove, crushed
½ tsp Turmeric
½ tsp ground white pepper
2 tbsp coriander roots and leaves, chopped
3 Spring onions, finely sliced
plain flour, for coating
sprigs of Coriander, optional
225ml vegetable oil

For the coriander dipping sauce:

3 garlic clove, 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