Prawn Croustade recipe

Recipe Categories : | French | Appetizer | Seafood | Prawn | 

Serves : 6   Preparation time : 45 minutes   Cooking time : 25 minutes

Ingredients :

• ½ loaf unsliced bread
• ½ cup olive oil
• 1 clove garlic
  Filling
• 500g green prawns
• 1½ cups water
• 2 slices lemon
• 50g butter
• 6 spring onions
• 3 tbsp plain flour
• ground pepper
• 1 tbsp lemon juice
• 1 tspn dried dill
• ¼ cup cream
• parsley and lemon, to garnish

Preparation and Cooking Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 210°C. Remove crust from bread, cut into 5cm thick slices. Cut each slice diagonally to form a triangle. Cut a 1cm border around the bread slices, scoop out center, taking care to leave a base. This gives a cavity in which to place the prawn filling. Heat oil and garlic together in a small pan, brush all over bread cases. Bake 10 minutes.
2. To make filling : Shell and devein prawns and chop roughly. Place in a small pan and cover with water. Add lemon slices, simmer 15 minutes, strain and reserve liquid.
3. Heat butter in a small pan, cook chopped spring onions until soft, add flour and pepper. Stir over low heat 2 minutes. Gradually add reserved prawn liquid. Stir constantly over medium heat 5 minutes or until sauce boils and thickens. Add lemon juice, dill, cream and prawns and heat gently for approximately 5 minutes.
4. To serve, spoon filling into bread cases, garnish with parsley and lemon.