Wasabi Mayo Prawns

Posted by spots (Singapore, Singapore) on 3 August 2005 in Food & Cuisine and Portfolio.

Had this for dinner tonight. Paired it with a soba salad with sesame & tofu dressing, using a slightly modified version of this recipe from the lovely blogger, 101cookbooks. The two dishes complemented each other very well and Husband was particularly pleased with this prawn dish. The prawns were dunked in flour and shallow-fried, giving them a crunchy texture. This crunch was nicely contrasted with the smooth texture of the mayo and the addition of wasabi gave an extra zing to the whole dish! Here's the recipe, which I kind of made up, based on a similar dish we tasted at Tung Lok Seafood Gallery.

Wasabi mayo prawns (for 2 persons)

8 prawns, regular prawns (need not be tiger prawns)

1.5 ts wasabi paste

1/2 cup Japanese mayo

1 ts juice of lime

3-4 tbs finely-chopped green onions

Cucumber slices

1 cup flour

1. Prepare the prawns by cutting off heads and picking off legs. Use a sharp scissors to snip the shell down the spine of the prawn, starting from head area to tail. Set aside.

2. Mix the wasabi paste with the Jap mayo.* Add lime juice & green onions. Mix thoroughly.

3. Coat the prawns in flour. Heat up some oil ** in a pan on high fire. When the oil is hot, shallow-fry the floured prawns quickly. ***

4. Remove the prawns from heat and stir them in 2-3 tbs of the wasabi-mayo paste. Serve immediately on a bed of cucumber slices, with the rest of the wasabi-mayo paste as additional dipping sauce.

* My recipe calls for 1.5 ts of wasabi paste. However, you may wish to add 1 ts of wasabi paste to the Jap mayo first and taste to see if the wasabi flavour proves too strong for your liking, before considering adding the additional 1/2 ts of wasabi.

** Pour enough oil to just cover the entire base of the pan.

*** The frying shouldn't take long at all. At the most, 1 minute.

Hope you enjoy this recipe!