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Kataifi-Wrapped Prawns with Lemon Garlic Butter
With Christmas just around the corner and the Party Season in full swing, it’s dishes like these that make celebrations so special. While prawns may be more expensive than you would normally budget for, you can find regular specials , so snap them up when you can and freeze them until you are ready to cook with them. Once you thaw them, cook them as soon as possible.
Kataifi pastry is a Greek speciality and you can find it in larger supermarkets in the freezer section near filo. It is the same consistency as filo pastry but shredded - looks like a bunch of straw, but simply tease it out. A little goes a long way – one packet of pastry will do for 20 prawns.
KATAIFI WRAPPED PRAWNS WITH LEMON GARLIC BUTTER
Serves 4 as a main meal or 6 as an entree
INGREDIENTS
- 20 large green prawns
- 100g butter
- 5 cloves garlic, finely chopped
- Zest and juice of 2 lemons
- Sea salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste
- 350g pack Kataifi pastry
- A little oil spray
DIRECTIONS
- To prepare the prawns, remove their heads and peel the shells away from the body, leaving the tail intact. Use a small sharp knife to slice along the back of each prawn, then de-vein them.
- Melt the butter in a small saucepan over low heat. Add the finely chopped garlic and lemon zest and sauté for 2 minutes until fragrant. Add the lemon juice and season with a little salt and pepper. Pour half the garlic butter over the prawns and toss thoroughly to coat the. Set the remaining butter sauce aside in a small bowl, ready to serve.
- Turn the air-chef on and preheat to 180°C. Line the base of the tray with a sheet of foil.
- Remove the pastry from the bag and gently tease out the strands.
- Remove a small bunch of about 1 tablespoons of pastry and lay it in a 15cm strand on the clean bench top. Place one butter and garlic-soaked prawn at one end of the pastry and roll it up to completely coat the prawn but leave the tail exposed. The buttery coating should help the pastry stick to the prawn. Repeat with remaining prawns and pastry.
- Spray the kataifi-wrapped prawns with some oil spray. Place the prawns in the air-fryer basket and set the timer to 10 minutes. When the timer bell goes off, open the air-fryer, and use long-handled tongs to move the prawns around to expose the undercooked parts. Return the basket to the airfryer and cook for a further 5 minutes. Move the prawns around again and cook for a final 5 minutes.
- Serve the hot and crunchy prawns on a large platter with a few salad leaves and wedges of lemon or lime near by. Have the butter close by so that everyone can serve themselves. Serve at once.
Recipe created and shared by Sandra Reynolds
Sandra Reynolds has written over 1000 nutritious budget-friendly recipes for her blog The $120 Food Challenge, surviving unemployment payments and Aldi checkout lines along the way and turned personal adversity into a thriving blog.
Her first cookbook, The $120 Food Challengeis published by Penguin Viking and Sandra is now writing her second cookbook. She still shops at Aldi every week.
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21 November 2014
This is a great healthy alternative for family meals, I'd like to try chicken and chips with it.
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21 November 2014
How good would a Air Fryer be
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21 November 2014
"perfectly cooked fried foods without excess oils" sounds great ... and keeping the kitchen cooler in the hot Australian summer is a wonderful side effect. And the prawn recipe would be the first to try :-)
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21 November 2014
We recently tried zucchini fries at a restaurant we were ready to all say oh yuck but they were so delicious we can't wait to cook them ourselves with some nice Teriyaki basted chicken and sweet potato fries.
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21 November 2014
I would love this! My boyfriend and I love healthy salads, protein balls, soups and smoothies but are complete suckers for deep fried goods! Chips are our down fall. This would allow us to have our cheeky chips and still continue on our health journey! In total I have lost 26kg and am only 10kg away from my ultimate goal. My partner has lost 8kg and is 4kg away from his perfect weight! We'd make bean cakes, spring rolls and chips! YUM
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21 November 2014
I have high cholesterol, so this would be perfect for me! I would love hot chips I could actually eat
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22 November 2014
A friend of mine has one and loves it. I would like to share in that love. The first thing I would do is get the kids to cook pastry wrapped pizza scrolls. Then maybe that would lead to them cooking more
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22 November 2014
I would make healthy Potato Skin Wedges & then undo all my good work by serving them with Sour Cream & Salsa
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22 November 2014
wow what amazing appliance, this would really help me get kids to eat healthier yet they think they still having fish n chips like at fish n chip shop!!
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22 November 2014
Wow looks amazing, with four little ones at home and my husband away with the defence this could make life so much easier. Thanks for the great comp and the amazing recipes.
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22 November 2014
Love the deep sided basket and the time factor involved to cook healthier options
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22 November 2014
I would make sweet potato wedges with chicken schnitzel for a nice easy, healthy and delicious meal
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22 November 2014
This would be perfect for us at home and in the caravan. Marinated chicken wings would be the recipe we would cook to feed our 2 youngest grandchildren with who love Pop's chicken wings. Would be a great boon for the caravan
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22 November 2014
Kambrook's Air Chef Air Frying Oven,
will be perfect for my family,
encouraging all of us to eat more healthily,
I'd prepare risotto arancini! -
23 November 2014
A lifestyle change has already been made,
with daily exercise and a healthy diet.
The only thing more we can do, would be to AIR FRY it.
Also, wouldn't mind if you could kindly supply it. -
23 November 2014
The Kambrook Air Chef Frying Oven will certainly aid in my journey for pleasure without the calories! The first dish I'd prepare - Chicken kiev with blue cheese and spanish ham, accompanied by celeriac chips! My mouth is watering already!
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23 November 2014
My son has Type 1 diabetes and I have wanted to buy one of these for a while as I always prepare food as healthily as possible. I think I would do chips first as potatoes are his main carbohydrate source.
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23 November 2014
I would love to have a go at making a healthier version of potato chips - veggie chips. Yum!
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23 November 2014
Living in a small house, using the oven during summer turns the house into suns next door neighbor so this would bring us back down to earth. I'd love to make some bite sized mozzarella bites for my picky eaters
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I would love to try your prawns in Kambrook's Air Chef Air Frying Oven as well as other delicious and healthy recipes