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Chinese Prawn Toast Recipe

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Sesame prawn toast is a fantastic idea for an appetizer and this combines crunch with succulent seafood, and this recipe also includes water chestnuts and green onion. These are really more-ish too.

Ingredients

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  • 8 slices white bread, no crusts
  • Water
  • ½ onion, diced
  • 2 or 3 water chestnuts, diced
  • 1 green onion (spring onion), finely chopped
  • 340g (3/4 lb) small fresh prawns, shelled, deveined and chopped
  • Salt and white pepper
  • Few drops sesame oil
  • 1 tablespoon cornstarch
  • 1 lightly beaten egg
  • 500ml to 1 litre (1 to 2 pints) oil for deep frying

Instructions

  1. Cut each slice of bread into 4 squares so you have 32 squares total.
  2. Combine the onion, diced water chestnuts and prawns and mince until fine.
  3. Add the cornstarch, spring onion, pepper, egg and sesame oil and mix well.
  4. Place a heaped teaspoon of this mixture on each bread square.
  5. Heat a wok and add the oil.
  6. Heat the oil to 190 degrees C and slide the bread squares carefully into the wok, a few at a time, prawn side down.
  7. Deep fry until golden (a couple of minutes) then turn and deep fry the other side.
  8. Drain on paper towels and serve hot.

Notes

Prefer to make Chinese prawn toast without sesame seeds? No problem, you can just leave them off.