Baked sesame prawns with roasted chilli dipping sauce

Pin It

Baked prawns  are just yummy.

Serves 4

Ingredients
16 raw large prawns peeled and deveined with tails left on
2 egg whites
4 tbsp toasted sesame seeds
cooking oil spray
salt and pepper
thinly sliced spring onion to serve

For the chilli dipping sauce
200ml rice vinegar
100g caster sugar
2bsp chilli flakes
1 shallot thinly sliced

Preheat the oven 200c/gas mark 6

To make the sticky chilli dipping sauce, heat the vinegar and sugar with large pinch salt in saucepan over medium heat

Bring to the boil, then simmer for five minutes or until syrupy

Remove from hat and add the chilli flakes.

Set aside until cool, then add the shallot butterfly the prawns by making a deep cut down the back so they lay nearly flat.

Whisk the egg white until just foamy, then dip the prawns in, allowing excess egg white to drain off

Season with salt and pepper, then roll in sesame seeds

Place on baking tray, spray with oil and bake for 5 minutes or until the prawns turn opaque and start to curl

Serve warm, garnished with spring onions with the dipping sauce on the side

Pin It