Tempura Prawns

Recipe

Serves:  2 people | Prep time:  5 minutes | Cooking time:  5 minutes

Thai | Starter

Ingredients

  • 1 x 200g Bag Specially Selected Frozen Raw Jumbo King Prawns
  • 75g The Pantry plain flour
  • 50g The Pantry cornflour
  • Pinch salt
  • 120ml Aqueo iced sparkling water
  • Asia Sweet chilli sauce - to serve
  • Solesta sunflower oil

Method

  1. Defrost the prawns and pat dry.
  2. Make sure that your sparkling water is very cold.
  3. Heat some oil in a deep fryer or in a large saucepan (needs to be one-third full of oil) to 190 deg - or until a cube of bread - starts to brown in 30 seconds.
  4. Mix the two flours together and the salt - add the cold sparkling water till you have a nice thick batter - put in the prawns and coat with batter - fry quickly in the oil for 3/4 mins - till brown and crisp - drain and serve with the chilli sauce.