Sides 🇨🇳 Chinese 30 min meal

Prawn toast

Crunchy sesame topped toast with a savoury prawn paste, fried until golden. Best eaten hot.

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  • Time30 min
  • LevelMedium
  • Costabout £1.68 a head

Cost is worked out from Aldi and Tesco shelf prices in October 2026. Your shop and brands will differ.

4 servings

Ingredients

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Method

  1. 1

    Pat the prawns dry and blitz them in a food processor with the egg white, cornflour, spring onions, ginger, sesame oil and pepper until a rough paste.

  2. 2

    Spread the paste right to the edges of the bread. Press the sesame seeds firmly onto the paste.

  3. 3

    Heat the oil in a wide frying pan until a cube of bread sizzles at once.

  4. 4

    Fry the slices paste side down for 2 minutes until golden, then flip and fry for 1 minute more.

    3 min
  5. 5

    Drain on kitchen paper, cut each slice into 4 triangles and serve with sweet chilli sauce.

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