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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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18 November 2014
I have tried your recipe on a friends air fryer wonderful wonderful wonderful I would love to win one then I woldnt have to borrow hers
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18 November 2014
The pastry is new to me, it sounds yummy! And air frying is just genius!
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18 November 2014
These look amazing! My mother in law is always deep frying her foods. As a diabetic with high cholesterol and immobility its doing her no good. I would love to spoil her with this and make her favourite hot chips and schnitzel. An ordinary food just got extraordinary!!
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18 November 2014
What a great little machine, especially for those late nights where you want something quick and healthy to eat. Homemade fish and chips is the way to go, no fat and all the flavour!
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18 November 2014
I would love to cook naughty foods in a healthy way, and with a Air Chef, I can!
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18 November 2014
I love a crunchy fried morsel but hate the fat and the smell in my kitchen. This would give me so many more excuses to cook up delectable treats for family & friends.
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18 November 2014
And for a start I'd do basic healthy chicken schnitzels without the usual nasties.
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18 November 2014
I would make a roasted rack of lamb with a macadamia crust in my Kambrook Air Chef - a healthy Sunday tasty roast alternative for the family!
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18 November 2014
Three words. Sweet. Potato. Fries.
I've tried many times but I can not make them as scrumptious in the oven.
And pumpkin, every night. My kids love pumpkin so much I have to restrict its consumption so they don't turn orange! It would be so much easier throwing them in this! -
18 November 2014
I'd like to make Tempura prawns. They'd be healthier for my family to eat, as they'd be crispier and less oily too.
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18 November 2014
Wow! I have been looking at the air fryer for so long, would be great to win
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19 November 2014
I'd love to see how buffalo wings turn out in this and healthier eating is always a plus!
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19 November 2014
My small family of three would love this new addition, I'd be making healthy roasts with it, especially chicken and pork, with potato and pumpkin YUM!!
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19 November 2014
Those prawns look absolutely fandiddlyscrumptious. I am drolling just reading the recipe Can't wait to try your recipe on my new Kambrook AirFryer
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19 November 2014
A much healthier option than the deep fryer. This growing family would certainly put it through its paces!
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19 November 2014
I would love to make my home made spring rolls and dim sims, healthier and so tasty with some hot chips for lunch or dinner
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19 November 2014
Kambrook's Air Fryer would be great to cook Southern Fried Chicken (the healthy version!). Would love to cook a little more guilt-free!
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19 November 2014
Oooh I'd never heard of these machines before but now I know about them I want one!
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19 November 2014
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These look so good. I would love to win this. Would make healthy cooking just a little easier.