New Recipe Added - Thai Prawn Cakes

Aromatic Prawn Cakes

Taken from umawylde.com

Uma Wylde's Aromatic Prawn Cakes (Thod Man Kung)

Ingredients for Thai prawn cakes (for four people):

• 500g shelled raw prawns


• 6 cloves Thai garlic


• 4 kaffir lime leaves


• 2 red bird eye chillies


• 2 spring onions


• 2 tbsp uncooked rice


• 2 tsp salt


• ½ litre sunflower oil


• 2 tbsp cornflour

Preparation & Cooking Time: 20 minutes

Method:

1. Tip 2 tbsp rice into a frying pan and cook over a medium heat until golden then take off the heat and grind to a powder in a pestal and mortar.


2. Deseed the chillies and tip into a food processor with the garlic, spring onion and kaffir lime leaves and blitz until fine. Now add the raw prawns, the ground rice and 2 tsp salt and blitz until smooth.


3. Turn the prawn mixture onto a board sprinkled with cornflour and roll into a long sausage. Cut the roll into 1cm slices then shape into patties and dust with a little cornflour.


4. Pour enough oil into a frying pan or wok so it’s deep enough to cover the prawn cakes and place over a high heat. Once the oil is sizzling hot then add the prawn cakes and fry for 1 minute or until golden. Remove with a slotted spoon and drain on to absorbent kitchen paper.


5. Serve with dipping sauce such as a cucumber, chilli or peanut.