Prawn cocktail mini tacos (shrimp)
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Prawn cocktail mini tacos (shrimp)
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Recipe video above. Prawn cocktails, in canapé form! These one-bite mini tacos are fantastic finger food, and you’ll love the nifty trick for making the miniature taco shells - just use an upside-down muffin tin!Fill with anything chopped small enough to fit - try Jalapeño chicken, spicy salmon, Thai chicken salad or even old school taco beef! In the spirit of summer here in Australia (and an attempt to be grown-up cocktail party canapé worthy), I've gone for prawn cocktail with a classic Marie Rose sauce.
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Ingredients
Mini tacos:
- 6 corn tortillas ~13cm / 3" wide (Note 1 on flour tortillas)
- 1/4 tsp cooking salt / kosher salt (halve for table salt)
- Olive oil spray
Prawns:
- 220g/7 oz cooked prawns/shrimp, peeled (ie 500g/1 lb whole cooked in shell, then peel yourself, Note 2)
Prawn cocktail sauce:
- 4 tbsp mayonnaise , preferably whole egg, or Kewpie (Note 3)
- 1 tbsp ketchup (or Aussie tomato sauce)
- 1 tsp Worcestershire sauce
- 1/2 tsp horseradish cream , or better yet fresh horseradish (Note 4)
- 2 dashes of tabasco , for touch of spice (optional)
- 1/8 tsp cayenne pepper , for touch of spice (optional)
- 1/8 tsp garlic powder (or small garlic clove pressed using garlic crusher)
- 1 tbsp cornichons (or dill pickle), finely chopped
Garnish/serving:
- 1 tbsp chives , finely sliced (or parsley)
- Fancy options - salmon roe, caviar (not pictured)
- Dried black beans or rock salt , to keep upright when serving (optional, Note 5)
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Instructions
Abbreviated recipe:
- Cut 17 x 6cm/2.4" rounds, microwave to soften, oil and salt, press into upside muffin tin. Bake 12 minutes, cool in tin. Fill!
FULL RECIPE:
Crispy mini taco shells:
- Preheat the oven to 180°C/350°F (160°C fan-forced). Get a standard 12 hole muffin tin.
- Cut circles from the tortillas using a 6cm / 2.4" cutter. (Note 6 on using offcuts)
- Warm - Spread half on a dinner plate and microwave for 30 seconds on high (makes them pliable). Spray the warm tortillas lightly with oil, sprinkle with half the salt.
- Wedge - Turn the muffin tin upside down. Wedge the tortillas salt side down between the muffin tin holes - they fold into taco shapes! Repeat with remaining rounds.
- Spray the surface of the tortillas lightly with oil (no salt).
- Bake for 12 minutes, or until quite golden and crispy. Cool in the muffin tin so they set. (Stays crisp 2 days!)
Prawn cocktail filling:
- Dice the prawns into small 5mm / 0.2" cubes (for large, cut in half horizontally, lengthwise then chop - see video).
- Mix the Marie Rose sauce in a bowl. Then stir the prawns through, just before assembling.
Assembling:
- Fill taco shells with prawn cocktail filling, sprinkle with chives. To keep them upright, place on a bed of rock salt or dried beans for serving.
- Pass around, bask in praise, be coy when people ask how you made those marvellous mini taco shells!
Notes
- Tortillas - You'll need more than 6 tortillas if yours are smaller or less if larger. Corn tortillas bake up crisper than flour ones, have better flavour and stay crisper for longer, but flour tortillas work too - no need to warm to make pliable & takes a few more minutes in the oven.
- Prawns (shrimp) - Best to buy good whole prawns and peel yourself. Else, buy whole raw and boil, or pan fry - 250g/8oz raw peeled prawns, sprinkle lightly with salt then sear in a pan on medium high heat until just cooked, they will keep cooking as they rest. Cook time will vary with size: small - 1 minute each side, large - 2 minutes first side, 1 1/2 minutes second side.
- I find frozen cooked peeled prawns rather flavourless. I'd use seafood sticks instead!
- Whole egg mayonnaise - smoother, less sharp, not as sweet as regular mayo. Labelled as such on the jar - I like S&W and Hellmans. Else, Kewpie always works :)
- Horseradish cream mainly adds tang here and tiny wasabi-like heat. Can be omitted, don't sub with lemon juice (thins sauce).
- Not essential to have a bed of something to keep them upright for serving, you can lie on side or arrange so they hold each other up. To re-use dried beans, rinse under hot water in colander, dry thoroughly tea towels, store in container indefinitely.
- Cutting rounds - If you don't have a round cutter, you can always trace around a glass using a small knife. Stack, to cut faster!
- Use tortilla offcuts to make crispy tortilla shards for sprinkling on salads. Chop/cut into small random pieces, spray with oil, sprinkle with salt, bake 8 to 10 minutes until crispy.
- Use tortilla offcuts to make crispy tortilla shards for sprinkling on salads. Chop/cut into small random pieces, spray with oil, sprinkle with salt, bake 8 to 10 minutes until crispy.
- Making ahead - Mini taco shells will stay crispy for 2 days in an airtight container in the pantry (flour tortillas lose a bit of crispiness but still respectable, can re-crisp in oven for 5 minutes). For filling, prepare both sauce and prawns but don't combine until <30 minutes before using (salt will extra juice from prawns which tins the sauce). Once filled, they will stay respectably crispy for 30 minutes, but I still scoff them down an hour later!
- Nutrition per mini taco.
Nutrition Information
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Serving
36g
Calories
69cal
(3%)
Carbohydrates
5.25g
(2%)
Protein
2g
(4%)
Fat
4.6g
(7%)
Saturated Fat
0.9g
(5%)
Cholesterol
15mg
(5%)
Sodium
183mg
(8%)
Potassium
47mg
(1%)
Fiber
1.1g
(4%)
Sugar
0.9g
(2%)
Vitamin A
300IU
(6%)
Vitamin C
2.5mg
(3%)
Calcium
20mg
(2%)
Iron
0.2mg
(1%)
Nutrition Facts
Serving: 17mini tacos
Amount Per Serving
Calories 69 kcal
% Daily Value*
| Serving | 36g | |
| Calories | 69cal | 3% |
| Carbohydrates | 5.25g | 2% |
| Protein | 2g | 4% |
| Fat | 4.6g | 7% |
| Saturated Fat | 0.9g | 5% |
| Cholesterol | 15mg | 5% |
| Sodium | 183mg | 8% |
| Potassium | 47mg | 1% |
| Fiber | 1.1g | 4% |
| Sugar | 0.9g | 2% |
| Vitamin A | 300IU | 6% |
| Vitamin C | 2.5mg | 3% |
| Calcium | 20mg | 2% |
| Iron | 0.2mg | 1% |
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.
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