DEEP-FRIED PRAWN WONTONS WITH SWEET CHILLI SAUCE

Deep-fried wontons  with sweet chilli sauce

Ingredients:

20 eggs- pastry wonton wrappers
20 greeen king prawns, peeled and deveined leaving tails intact
Vegetables oil, for deep-frying
4 green onions, julienned
Pickled pink ginger, to serve if you desired
Sweet chili sauce
1 cup lemon juice
75g caster sugar
2 teaspoons peanut oil
1 clove of garlic, finely sliced
1 1x2 cm piece of ginger, peeled and finely chopped
1/2 teaspoons sea salt
2 fresh, large red chilies
   seeded and finely chopped
2 fresh, large red chilies, seeded and finely chopped
Fish sauce, to taste

METHOD

For sweet chili sauce, combine lemon juice and sugar in a saucepan and cook over medium heat until reduced by half, or until syrup consistency.

Heat peanut oil in a small saucepan and cook garlic and ginger over low heat until golden. combine garlic mixture, salt and chili in a mortar and pestle and pound until a fine pasta forms.  Stir in lemon juice and season to taste with fish sauce if necessary, to balance flavor between sweet, salty and hot.

Place wonton wrappers on work surface and place prawns diagonally across form corner to corner.  Brush a litter water on edges of wonton and fold around prawns so that the tails are poking out.

Deep-fry prawn in hot vegetables oil until golden.  Drain on absorbent paper.

Place wontons on a plate and serve with a small pot of sweet chilli sauce and small piles of julienned green onion and pickled pink ginger if you like.

Deep-fried prawn wontons with sweet chili sauce ready to go :)