Summertime King Prawn Salad
Rated 4.93 out of 5 based on 43 votes
Ingredients
- 500 g queensland king prawns
- 2 x firm vine ripened tomatoes
- 1/2 x small spanish onion
- 1 x large ripe haas avocado
- 1 x lemon
- 1 bunch basil
- 1 Tbls cold pressed extra virgin olive oil
- 1 Tbls 10 year aged balsamic vinegar
- 1 pinch murray river salt flakes
- 1 pinch freshly cracked pepper
- 1 x ripe bowen mango
Method
1. Peel, devein and chop prawns into pieces (approx. 2cm) leaving a few prawns aside to use as garnish.
2. Dice one tomato. When dicing the other, cut in half and scoop seeds out otherwise the mixture will be too wet.
3. Finely dice the spanish onion.
4. Dice the avocado into similar sized cubes.
5. Cut the mango cheeks and thinly slice to use as garnish.
6. Finely chop a few basil leaves.
7. In a bowl add the prawns, tomatoes, avocado, onion and basil with a good squeeze of lemon juice, around a tablespoon of olive oil & aged vinegar, a pinch of salt and cracked pepper. Refrigerate for approx 30mins until chilled.
8. Place a metal cylinder in the centre of the plate and spoon in the mixture pushing the mixture down so it doesn’t fall over.
9. Place the mango slices on top of the stack in a circular motion and then add a deveined prawn on the top with the head and tail still on but the body peeled.
10. In a circular motion drizzle the balsamic glaze and olive oil. Enjoy!!
This light & fresh entrée serves 4 people and in one bite will transport you and your guests to the Sunshine State!
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this looks spectacular!
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Thank you Helen! It’s amazing how pretty flowering basil looks and smells!
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I have become enamoured with the flowers in my gerden and their uses in my cooking. My favourite is sage flowers, but heartsease, nasturtium, garlic chive, rocket and zucchini find their way into my dishes. I am looking forward to my bananas getting to flowering stage. A very great adventure in flavour.
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Wow Helen, I’m jealous with all your garden growing! I seriously have a black thumb! Another nice herb flower is tarragon, it has a gorgeous vibrant yellow colour.
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Thanks Snjezana for your feedback. I have now corrected my small error in the recipe so there’s no confusion as to what to do with spanish onion!
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Amazing recipe, the prawns are to die for.
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great dish
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Beautiful dish very suited to a side accompanyment to a summer BBQ
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Fantastic recipe, love it
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Delicious! I absolutely loved this recipe, and making it was fun too! Thoroughly enjoyed by all! I have to disagree with the below comment though, I thought that the tomato was fresh and soft and I feel that if I used capsicum instead it would have been too dominant – the tomato keeps the prawns being the star!
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Wow!
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Looks great and tastes just as good!
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This is one of my favourite meals especially in summer, and i think that capsicum doesn’t bring out the true flavours of the dish, so tomato goes perfect with it, so YUM!
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That’s settled then, ha ha!
Stunning presentation.Reply
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What a lovely, fresh and delicious recipe!
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Looks a beautiful summer style salad
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Fantastic summer dish!! Loved it!!
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Absolutely beautiful..
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This recipe was delicious!
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Hope you’ve had fun making. I was lucky enough to get flowering basil from my neighbours garden!
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This was delicious!!
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OMG what a dish – highly recommend everyone try this one!
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This looks beautiful!!
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This tasted as good as it looked, and I would have to agree with using tomato as it meshed all the flavours together nicely! Capsicum would not have worked for me.
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This was amazing . Fantastic blend of flavour !!
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This looks delicious! I’m going to make it weekend
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I know how touchy the stars can be as I did the same thing myself when I rated another dish! Hopefully Best Home Chef can change it! Hope you enjoyed the recipe
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It looks so impressive. Can’t wait to cook it this weekend.
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Its looks absolutely delicious!
I will have to try this for dinner soon!
Great work DeborahReply
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This was the staring dish of our week! The flavours were great and light. I found that the juice of the tomato mixed in really well with the olive oil (flavour combo) and also helped to keep the stack stay in place – so maybe better than the capsicum suggestion for me. Awesome dish so thanks again!
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My girlfriend made this for me the other night, thought I would let you know it was AWESOME!
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Great to hear!!!
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This just looks so beautiful! I love all of the ingredients in this dish. I can’t wait to make it this week!
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I purchased the Recipe + magazine and cannot wait to cook this for tomorrow nights dinner! Good luck!!
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really lovely dish, everyone impressed!
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cant wait to have this again
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I followed your recipe and had lots of compliments from my friends. Can’t wait to try some more recipes! Thanks!!
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Great recipe, it was easy to follow and tasted fantastic. My family and friends loved it! Will definately be adding this one to my “best recipes cook book”.
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My Mum cooked this first and then I did. Can’t work out who’s was the best but definately a family favourite!!
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This was awesome!!
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I made this beautiful dish. It was so easy and tasted fantastic! It was a definite winner at my dinner party, definitely had the wow factor
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Thanks Sharon, glad to hear your guests enjoyed!
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very refreshing
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Delicious combination and easy to prepare
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totally the most creative thought out recipe here
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A Beautiful fusion of fresh flavours made spectacular by the Mango Really liked this a lot
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How many stacks does this make?
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