Prawn & cucumber canape
- Preparation and cooking time
- Total time
- Easy
- Serves 6
Ingredients
- Packet of fresh cooked prawns
- Melba toasts, cut to 3cm-square (approx)
- 1 spring onion
- 3 tablespoons mayonnaise
- thinly sliced cucumber (1 slice per canape)
- wasabe paste
- Sesame seeds toasted
- coriander leaves (1 leaf per canape)
Method
- STEP 1Toast a tablespoon of sesame seeds in a dry frying pan until golden colour and aromatic
- STEP 2Very finely chop about 3cm of a spring onion and combine with the mayonnaise, a small squirt of wasabe paste and a teaspoon of sesame seeds.
- STEP 3Spread a thin layer of mayonnaise on each toast square
- STEP 4Layer on a finely sliced piece of cucumber
- STEP 5Place a prawn on each canape, and sprinkle with a few sesame seeds.
- STEP 6Roll up quite tightly (but without damaging) a single leaf of coriander, place the stem end in the centre of the prawn and allow to uravel so that it remains standing upright.
- STEP 7Arrange several canapes on a plate and serve.
