Prawn & fennel cocktail

Name: Prawn & fennel cocktail
Prep time: 22 min
Cook time: 22 min
Total time: 22 min
Yield: 6
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 3 heads fennel, trimmed; 1 Tbsp caster sugar; 2 teaspoons Maldon sea salt; 1 juice lemon; 400 grams cooked, peeled king prawns; 1 handful chervil leaves, roughly chopped; 1 handful tarragon leaves, roughly chopped; 6 small handfuls mixed salad leaves; 1 lemon, cut into 6 wedges; 1 small red chilli, deseeded; 1 garlic clove; 1 pinch pinch saffron strands; 250 milliliters good-quality mayonnaise

The recipe Prawn & fennel cocktail can be made in approximately 22 minutes. One portion of this dish contains around 16g of protein, 33g of fat, and a total of 413 calories. This recipe serves 6. This recipe covers 16% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. It works well as a beverage. This recipe from BBC Good Food requires king prawns, chervil leaves, garlic clove, and salad leaves. It is a good option if you're following a gluten free, dairy free, and pescatarian diet. If you like this recipe, take a look at these similar recipes: Prawn Cocktail, Prawn Cocktail For Two, and Prawn and Fennel Filo Pastry.

Instructions

To make the rouille, use a pestle and mortar to mash chilli and garlic to a smooth paste. Bring the saffron to a simmer with 4 tbsp of water. Stir saffron water, garlic and chilli into the mayonnaise and put in the fridge, until ready to use.

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Mayonnaise

Saffron

Chili Pepper

Garlic

Water

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Mortar And Pestle

Cut the fennel into quarters, remove the cores and use a Japanese mandolin or sharp knife to slice as thinly as possible. Bring a pan of water to the boil and blanch the fennel for 1 min until just wilted.

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Fennel

Water

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Knife

Frying Pan

Drain and tip into iced water.

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Water

Drain again and use a cloth to wring out all the excess water, then leave in the fridge.

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Water

To assemble the dish, season the fennel with the sugar, salt, a decent grinding of pepper and the lemon juice.

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Lemon Juice

Fennel

Pepper

Sugar

Salt

Cut most of the prawn tails in half, saving a whole one for each serving.

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Shrimp

Mix the chopped prawns into the fennel, then add the chopped chervil and tarragon and enough rouille to bind everything together (about 6-7 tbsp). Half-fill 6-8 martini glasses loosely with the fennel mix.

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Tarragon

Chervil

Martini

Fennel

Shrimp

Place the mixed leaves on top, then a whole prawn tail, then drizzle with the fennel juices that will have collected at the bottom of the bowl.

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Fennel

Shrimp

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Bowl

Serve straight away with a wedge of lemon.

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Lemon

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Servings:

3heads

fennel, trimmed 1Tbsp

caster sugar 2teaspoons

Maldon sea salt 1

juice lemon 400grams

cooked, peeled king prawns 1handful

chervil leaves, roughly chopped 1handful

tarragon leaves, roughly chopped 6small handfuls

mixed salad leaves 1

lemon, cut into 6 wedges 1small

red chilli, deseeded 1

garlic clove 1pinch

pinch saffron strands 250milliliters

good-quality mayonnaise

Recommended wine: Pinot Grigio, Riesling, Sauvignon Blanc

Shrimp works really well with Pinot Grigio, Riesling, and Sauvignon Blanc. These crisp white wines work well with shrimp prepared in a variety of ways, whether grilled, fried, or in garlic sauce. You could try Alois Lageder Terran Alpina Pinot Grigio Vigneti delle Dolomiti. Reviewers quite like it with a 4.3 out of 5 star rating and a price of about 16 dollars per bottle.