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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
Kambrook Air Chef would be JUST what we need. As chicken LOVERS we eat loads of it. BATTERED is our favourite, but not healthy. To be able to eat battered/crumbed chicken without the cholesterol of pan fried would be BLISS!
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20 November 2014
Oh my god! I seriously cannot believe how crunchy everything looks, especially without the oil! It's so important to cook healthy meals, I know my family would love it
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20 November 2014
Heavy in other ways (my hips and thighs seem to love being in the spotlight!), with the Philips Air Fryer at least something would be light in my life!
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20 November 2014
We are a super healthy family and I would love to try my homemade beef pies in the air fryer to see how flaky and crispy the pastry would be!
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20 November 2014
This would be great for when it is my husband's turn to cook, he could make the perfect romantic dish for us, fish and chips in our Air Chef Air Frying Oven.
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20 November 2014
I would love healthier "fried" food for my toddler to eat . I would cook roast vegetables and fish for him to enjoy with us.
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20 November 2014
An air fryer would be perfect for me because i am yet to figure out how to use my wifes fancy oven. I would probably make fish and chips first up.
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20 November 2014
I would love an air fryer to use until my husband finally installs my oven in my remodelled kitchen. I have been without a good roast dinner for 6 months so i would cook chicken and vegetables.
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20 November 2014
Would love one of these in the kitchen to be able to enjoy the naughty foods without the grease. I would make homemade spring rolls first.
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20 November 2014
This Air Fying Oven will be a perfect addition to my kitchen as my family loves fried chicken, with it I will be able to prepare irresistible perfectly crisp golden brown fried chicken without the guilt associated with fried food.
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21 November 2014
I went to the doctor and he recommended I buy a air fryer to bring down my cholesterol. It's on my xmas list.
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21 November 2014
What a fantastic idea. Healthy and easy. Roast sweet potatoes coming up...
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21 November 2014
theres a push for more fat in diet i disagree food should be flavourful and healthy i would cook flavoured chicken breasts tender and moist without the calorie
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21 November 2014
What a great product! I would be using this nearly every for dinners and sides: chips and hamburgers, roast chicken, lamb kebabs, roasted vegetables with satay sauce. Hmm, maybe banana fritters or stone fruit for dessert!
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21 November 2014
There's just my husband and I at home now and we try to eat healthily although he loves his deep fried foods (part of his English upbringing). With this he could have his 'not fatty' fish and chips.
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21 November 2014
That is unbelievable, you wouldn't think that one machine could do so much. Technology is improving so fast, it is hard to keep up to date with it all. The recipe sounds yummy and definitely worth a try when I get my gift. hehe
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21 November 2014
What an innovative kitchen appliance
I wonder what appliance shops will be selling in 10 or 20 years! -
21 November 2014
Healthy fish and chips would be the first thing I would try. Goodbye greasy, unhealthy, expensive takeaway. The possibilities with an Air Chef would be endless.
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21 November 2014
This is such an innovative idea. The humble, but ever-popular, potato chip would be the first thing I tried. What a great way to make a healthier meal.
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I'm a sucker for a big bowl of hot, crunchy chips. It would nice to be able to enjoy them in a slightly less guilty way!