Entrée · Season 8

Hot and Sour Prawn Head Broth

Name: Hot and Sour Prawn Head Broth
Yield: 4
Ingredients: 4 birdseye chillies, deseeded; 6 long red chillies, deseeded; 5cm piece ginger, chopped; 6 cloves garlic; 4 brown shallots; 1 stick lemongrass; 1 bunch coriander root; 2 tbsp shrimp paste; 1/3 cup peanut oil; 22 prawn heads; 3 tbsp tamarind; 500ml shellfish stock; 500ml water; 2 tomatoes, peeled, diced; 4 kaffir lime leaves; 2 tsp fish sauce; juice from 1 lime; juice from ½ lemon; 2 tbsp palm sugar; 10 peeled prawns; 1 spring onion, diced; 1 tsp sesame oil; 1 clove garlic, crushed; 1cm piece ginger; 2 tsp fish sauce; 1 egg white; pinch sugar; 12 prawns; 40ml sesame oil; salt, to taste

Matt Sinclair

Contestant · 31 May 2016

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Serves

Components

Ingredients

Season

Ingredients

Prawn Broth

4birdseye chillies, deseeded

6 longred chillies, deseeded

5cm pieceginger, chopped

6 clovesgarlic

4brown shallots

1 sticklemongrass

1 bunchcoriander root

2 tbspshrimp paste

1/3 cuppeanut oil

22prawn heads

3 tbsptamarind

500mlshellfish stock

500mlwater

2tomatoes, peeled, diced

4kaffir lime leaves

2 tspfish sauce

juice from 1 lime

juice from ½ lemon

2 tbsppalm sugar

Prawn Dumplings

10peeled prawns

1spring onion, diced

1 tspsesame oil

1 clovegarlic, crushed

1cm pieceginger

2 tspfish sauce

1egg white

pinchsugar

Skewered Prawns

12prawns

40mlsesame oil

salt, to taste

Crispy Prawn Legs

1 litrevegetable oil, for deep frying

12front prawn leg sections

½ cupplain flour

1 tbspsalt

1 tbspground pepper

To garnish

½ cuproasted peanuts

½ cupfried shallots

12 leavesvietnamese mint

½ cupcoriander leaves

1 cupbean shoots

1red chilli, deseeded and juilienned

4lime cheeks

Method

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Tagged

EggsTomatoGingerSugarFlourPepperCorianderSaltPrawnMintShallotLimeTamarindPeanutsPeanut OilFish SauceLemongrassShrimp PasteBean SproutsSesame OilChilliWaterDinnerSoupsSeafood

Recipe by Matt Sinclair, Season 8. Originally published by Network 10 on 31 May 2016.

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