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Prawn Cocktail

Serves 4-6 Preparation 2: Salad and veggies
1. Wash the lettuce. Using your hands, peel the lettuce and
Ingredients tear it into small pieces.
2. Wash the carrot and grate it nely.
250 grammes of big prawns Seafood Sauce 3. Wash the lemongrass and chop very nely. Without any
1 small head of lettuce 6 cloves of garlic oil, sauté on the pan until it turns slightly brown and crispy.
1/2 carrot 1 tbsp of sh sauce 4. Wash the big red chilli and cut them nely lengthwise,
1 lemongrass 3/4 tsp salt using a paring knife.
1 big red chilli 10 fresh red and green chillies 5. Wash the coriander, mint leaves and fresh red and green chillies.
A few mint leaves 2 tbsp of sugar 6. Peel the garlic cloves.
Salt 2 tbsp of coriander
1/2 cup of lemon juice Preparation 3: Seafood Sauce
Method 1. In the food processor grind the garlic, chillies and coriander
for about a minute.
Preparation 1: Cleaning and preparing whole prawns
1. Remove the shells and heads, leaving the tails. 2. Add salt, sh sauce, lemon juice and sugar, and blend for 20 seconds.
2. Devein the prawns with a paring knife by making a
shallow slit down the middle of the back to remove Preparation 4: Cooking the prawns
the black vein. 1. In a small pot boil some water. Add a pinch of salt and drop in
3. Wash the prawns. the prawns.
2. Simmer for about 4 to 5 minutes on a medium ame until they
change colour.
3. Drain the water and leave the prawns.

Preparation 5: Tossing
1. In a bowl add in the boiled prawns, seafood sauce, red chilli
and lemon grass.

Preparation 6: Garnishing
1. In a cocktail glass put in the lettuce, grated carrots and prawns with
the tail side upwards.
2. Garnish with mint leaves.

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