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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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20 November 2014
I would love this as it would reduce the amount of fat we eat. I would use it to make samosas
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20 November 2014
The Kambrook Air Chef looks great. I'd love to cook healthier versions of my children's favourite food, mainly chicken nuggets, and would love to add other food like fish as well.
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20 November 2014
Amazing! The things you can do with an air fryer! This dish looks so delicious
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20 November 2014
Oh wow have always wanted one.So many easy meals to cook for the family with this.I know hot chips will be the first meal the kids will request to make .Thanks.
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20 November 2014
What a great little machine! It'd be perfect for our family as we love our food crunchy!
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20 November 2014
an Air Chef Air Frying Oven would be a perfect addition in our kitchen as we can cook in style
Air-Fried Panko Chicken
✿✿Ingredients: ✿6 boneless, skinless chicken breasts ✿½ teaspoon cayenne pepper ✿2 cups panko bread crumbs ✿1 stick unsalted butter, melted ✿1 teaspoon salt, divided ✿¾ teaspoon black pepper
Directions: ✿1. Stir together bread crumbs, cayenne pepper, ½ teaspoon salt and ½ teaspoon black pepper in pie plate; set aside. ✿2. Combine melted butter and remaining salt and pepper in small bowl. ✿3. Brush butter mixture on chicken. ✿4. Add chicken, 2 pieces at a time, to crumb mixture and coat evenly on all sides.
Transfer chicken to 3-inch rack and repeat with remaining breasts. ✿6. Air-fry chicken at 350°F for 7-8 minutes per side (10 minutes per side for thicker chicken). ✿7. Let chicken rest inside Oven for 1-2 minutes before serving. -
20 November 2014
Fried eggplant with no oil - if you can make that you can make anything!
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20 November 2014
Kambrook’s Air Chef Air Frying Oven and I will wiz up the best chicken wings in the history of the world. What a team!
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20 November 2014
I would love to make Chinese prawns - you just coat the prawns in plain flour, Chinese 5 spice, ginger, salt and pepper and fry them, served with fresh chilli and shallots. Would love to be able to do this without the oil and make a much healthier version!
By the way, your prawns look delicious and I am going to have to give them a try! -
20 November 2014
I am amazed by Kambrook’s Air Chef Air Frying Oven and how many things it can do, I would cook more often for sure including potato wedges which everyone loves, thank you
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20 November 2014
The air fresh would be an awesome healthy addition to my kitchen! I would cook delicious spicy wedges for my children !
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20 November 2014
Our Family has been on a journey of being more active and healthy eating this year, this machine would be perfect addition to our Family Commitment.
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20 November 2014
We love fried food in our family, but our the waistbands of our pants don't
This would be perfect for us! The first thing I'd cook would have to be hot chips, as there are NEVER any left on anybody's plate here! Thanks for the chance! -
20 November 2014
I'd love one of these it will be so healthy and I'd whip up a batch of battered prawn cocktails
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20 November 2014
This would be a perfect addition to my kitchen to try to become healthier than using an oil fryer! My first dish I'd try is just chips, then I may start getting adventurous with spring rolls, yum and no more grease!
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20 November 2014
I'd love a Kambrook’s Air Chef Air Frying Oven to be able to treat my family with their favourite unhealthy foods cooked in a healthy way...happy family & happy mumma!
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20 November 2014
What an inspirational and new age healthy way to cook. Prawn recipe heavenly, I'd love to give that a go
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20 November 2014
I have just moved and have no oven!!! No… Oh Nooo… Oh yes!! Just Air… Not even an Air Frying Oven!!!!
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20 November 2014
Perfect for cooking up some crispy bacon - once fried, never forgotten.
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Butt eye fillet seared over charcoal till just rare, then thinly sliced. Mixed with Vietnamese vegetable salad and wrapped in wontons and air fried in your cooker. Sounds like a Friday night cookup