Sesame Prawns Toast
Ingredients
Cleaned prawns – 1 cup
Minced/grated garlic – 1 tsp
Egg white -1
Chopped spring onion – ¼ cup
Pepper powder – ½ tsp
Soya sauce – ½ – 1 tsp
Cornflour – ½ tbsp
Sesame seeds – 1-2 tbsp (I used white sesame seeds)
Bread slices – 4-6 (I used regular white bread)
Salt
Oil for deep frying
Instructions
Combine prawns, egg white, minced garlic, chopped spring onion, pepper powder, soya sauce, cornflour and salt. Blend this in a food processor till it becomes a paste (refer notes).
Cut each slice of bread into 4 triangles. Spread the paste on 1 side of the bread & try & press down as much as possible. Sprinkle on sesame seeds on top of the paste.
Heat oil in a deep and wide pan, till hot but not smoking, place your toasts (paste side down) into the oil & fry for approx 30-50 seconds each side or as desired.
Serve hot with sweet chilli sauce.
Notes
If the shrimp paste becomes too watery or loose add a bit more cornflour and blend for a few seconds.
You can remove the crust of the bread if you wish, I kept the crust. If you like sesame flavour you can cover the paste with a layer of sesame seeds. I tried both ways with a thick layer of sesame and one with a little sesame, we preferred the second batch to the first one.
Though I didnt try shallow frying, I guess you can do that. Be careful while adding salt since soya sauce is also used.
The frying part is a bit tricky. You’ve to be careful about the oil temperature. Since the prawns isn’t cooked, you need it to be cooked completely but at the same time you dont want to burn the bread. Once the oil is hot enough, bring down the flame to low and fry.
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