Prawn – by Maria Elia

11 September 2006
Prawn – by Maria Elia

INGREDIENTS

(serves about 50)

Caesar dressing (see below)
Little Gem lettuces
Tiger prawns cooked and shelled
Croutons
Parmesan shavings
Baked pancetta slices
Parsley chopped

For the dressing
(Makes about 75cl)

3 eggs
60ml white wine vinegar
8 salted anchovies
60g Parmesan grated
3 cloves garlic
Juice of 1-2 lemons
300ml Spanish virgin olive oil

METHOD

Make the marinade by blitzing marinade ingredients in a blender and emulsifying them with up to 300ml of the olive oil.

For each Caesar spoon a little dressing into a curled lettuce leaf. Put a prawn on top then croutons Parmesan pancetta and parsley.

Maria Elia

The Caterer Breakfast Briefing Email

Start the working day with The Caterer’s free breakfast briefing email

Sign Up and manage your preferences below

Check mark icon
Thank you

You have successfully signed up for the Caterer Breakfast Briefing Email and will hear from us soon!

Jacobs Media is honoured to be the recipient of the 2020 Queen's Award for Enterprise.

The highest official awards for UK businesses since being established by royal warrant in 1965. Read more.

close

Ad Blocker detected

We have noticed you are using an adblocker and – although we support freedom of choice – we would like to ask you to enable ads on our site. They are an important revenue source which supports free access of our website's content, especially during the COVID-19 crisis.

trade tracker pixel tracking