Prawn Salads Perfect to Bring on Christmas Day
The two most important elements of any side dish at Christmas lunch: prawns and salad. With Mitchell Turner's (Head chef of Rick Stein at Bannister Port Stephens) prawn salad recipes, you'll be the toast of Christmas lunch.
Prawn Salad
A remix on the classic prawn cocktail, perfect as a side salad.
Ingredients
- Cooked prawns – as many as you would like
- 3 x Lap Chong (Chinese sausage is available in Woolworths or Coles in the international aisle)
- 4 tbsp Mayonnaise
- 1 tbsp Soy (Recommend the Healthy Boy Mushroom Soy but whatever you’ve got to hand will do)
- 1 tbsp Sweet Chilli sauce
- ½ head of butter lettuce.
- Fried shallots
Method
- Chop the prawns into chunks.
- Cut up the lap chong to roughly the same size as the prawn chunks and fry off in a pan until the fat is translucent.
- Once done, set to one side on kitchen paper.
- For the dressing – mix the mayonnaise, soy and sweet chilli in a small dish.
- In a dish of your choice, layer the butter lettuce, sprinkle the prawn and lap chong and drizzle the dressing to taste.
- Finsh with fried shallots and serve.
Prawn, Corn and Avocado Salad
This recipe serves around 2-3 people and, to make it go further, you can add a bit more of everything. Mitchell's tip: eat the salad with prawns and crusty bread, or mix the prawns in and have crusty bread and ham on the side.
Ingredients
- Cooked prawns
- 2 x corn on the cob
- ½ bunch of coriander
- 1 x avocado
- 4 x sprigs of spring onion
- 1 x lime (juice)
- 1 x healthy pinch of salt
- 1 x glug of olive oil
Method
- Char the corn and leave to cool before removing the kernels.
- Finely chop the coriander, all the way down to the stem.
- Deseed the avocado and cut into chunks and finely dice or chop the spring onion.
- In a salad bowl, mix the kernels, avo, coriander and spring onion.
- Cut the prawns into chunks and mix through.
- Finish with the juice of one lime and a glug of olive oil, mix through and season to taste.
- Serve with crusty bread and ham.
These prawn recipes are from Mitchell Turner, Head Chef of Rick Stein at Bannisters Port Stephens.
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