Scorpio Appetiser: Mixed Mushrooms on Prawn Crackers

I'd love to serve crab here but unfortunately I am allergic to shellfish. Anyway, it doesn't hurt to have some vegetarian food on the menu.

(I have to eat mine on rice crackers).

Serve with Bloodwood 2009 Chirac

Serves 6 (Makes approx.16 bite-sized crackers)

Ingredients:

1 packet of prawn chips (fried or microwaved)
300g mixed mushrooms (your choice), (finely chopped)
1 packet of Enoki mushrooms (twice-fried, as garnish, optional)
1T ginger (finely chopped)
1 clove garlic (finely chopped)
4 shallots /spring onions (finely sliced)
1t hot bean chilli paste (scant or heaped, depending on your chilli tolerance)
1T soy sauce
1t rice wine vinegar
2T peanut oil
Sesame oil (scant teaspoon)
Salt and pepper to taste

Method:

Heat oils with ginger, spring onions and hot bean chilli paste, then add mushrooms and garlic and sauté. Add soy and vinegar, check seasoning.

Prepare Enoki mushrooms by cutting the base and throwing the freed stems into some hot oil. Quickly remove from the oil, leave sit for a while and refry just until these mushrooms are crisp. Quickly drain on kitchen paper and serve the mushroom mixture warm on top of the prawn cracker and decorate with crisp Enoki, or alternately, toasted sesame seeds.

Shortcuts:

Use rice crackers instead of frying prawn crackers
Get guests to assemble their own morsels

Published in: Appetisers

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