Sesame Prawn Toast

If you love having sesame prawn toast when you get a Chinese takeaway you’ll LOVE this delicious recipe. It uses only a small selection of ingredients and is very quick and easy to make.

Cooking Tip:

Use fresh RAW peeled king prawns or defrosted raw king prawns for this recipe. Don’t try to use pre-cooked prawns as they may go rubbery when you cook the toasts.

Always follow the instructions on the packet if you’re defrosting prawns and ensure they’re properly defrosted before use.

If your prawns look like the ones below you’ll need to take their tails off and peel them and remove the black string-like thing running down the inner edge before use.

Ingredients for Sesame Prawn Toast

You will need:

• 1 small box of RAW peeled king prawns. They should be grey when you buy them
• 2-3 slices of white bread
• small knob of ginger (about 1cm cubed) peeled and grated
• 1 or 2 cloves of garlic, peeled and grated or crushed
• Salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste
• Sesame seeds
• Cooking oil to fry 

Sesame Prawn Toast Method

Put the raw prawns, the ginger, garlic and salt and black pepper into a food processor or mini chopper if you have one. Blitz well until it looks like a smoothish thick paste.

If you don’t have a food processor or mini chopper put the ingredients into a bowl and use a hand blender to blitz the ingredients.

If you don’t have a hand blender you could always use the end of a rolling pin to bash the prawn mixture into a paste.

Once the prawns are nicely blended or mushed up press onto one side of the slices of bread using the back of a wooden spoon or tablespoon. They need to be quite firmly stuck to the bread.

Tip some sesame seeds into a bowl and then press the prawn coated bread firmly into the sesame seeds, making sure the prawns are evenly coated with sesame seeds.

Discard any left over sesame seeds in the bowl after use.

If you have a deep fat fryer you can deep fry the prawn toasts but if not you can shallow fry them by adding oil to a frying pan and then preheating over a medium heat.

The prawn toasts take about  2 -4 minutes to cook per side – turning once or twice. Fry the prawn side first. If it looks like it’s burning turn down the heat a notch.  Repeat with the other slices of bread.

Cooking Tip:

Just watch out when cooking the second slice as the pan may have leftover sesame seeds in which may start to burn. It may be worth refreshing the oil if shallow frying so you don’t end up with burnt sesame seeds on your sesame prawn toasts!

What to serve Sesame Prawn Toast with

Serve as a starter with a little sweet chilli dipping sauce.

Or have as a side to other Chinese style food such as sweet and sour belly pork https://www.mamacoopskitchen.co.uk/sweet-and-sour-belly-pork-recipe/ or egg fried rice https://www.mamacoopskitchen.co.uk/egg-fried-rice/