Crispy Prawn Burgers

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Prawn burgers (shrimp burgers) are bizarrely hard to find – but you tin marque them astatine location successful nether 30 minutes! Crispy prawn patties, juicy inside, sandwiched successful brushed buns slathered with creamy-sweet-savoury Bang Bang Sauce, I’d expect to wage upwards of $30 for this astatine a trendy bistro.

Crispy prawn burgers

Good prawn burgers are weirdly hard to travel by. The ones I’ve tried person either been disturbingly bouncy (like over-firm Thai food cakes), adust from overcooking, oregon conscionable plain lacking successful prawn flavour (I suspect….fillers!).

This homemade mentation fixes each that. I besides similar that it’s a large prawn look wherever it doesn’t truly substance whether the prawns person been freshly plucked retired of the ocean, oregon came successful frozen bags from the market store. Freshly peeled prawns person a softer, juicier texture which is truly noticeable successful dishes similar Garlic Prawns, whereas successful prawn burgers, the quality is not arsenic stark!

Use pillowy brushed buns for the champion eating acquisition and your favourite seafood sauce. I’ve gone with Bang Bang Sauce today, inspired by the flavours of the ever-popular Bang Bang Shrimp – crispy prawns tossed successful a creamy-spicy sauce, a lucifer made successful heaven. Yes, that’s coming present soon!

Ingredients successful prawn burgers

Here’s what you request to marque these crunchy crispy prawn burgers!

1. For the crunchy crumbed PRAWN PATTIES

Prawns (shrimp) – You’ll request 400g/14 oz caller (peeled yourself) oregon 500g/1 lb frozen earthy prawns, which volition suffer astir 100g/3 oz of h2o erstwhile thawed (frozen seafood releases a batch of liquid!).
Garlic – Blitzed up with the prawn for terrific caller ail flavour.
Green onion – For a interaction of caller flavour and bully small greenish specks. Wouldn’t beryllium a woody breaker if you skipped this, oregon substitute with 2 tablespoons of precise finely minced bulb (any colour).
Panko breadcrumbs – Larger pieces than regular breadcrumbs for a crunchier crust!
Egg and flour – To marque the panko stick. Just regular plain flour (all-purpose flour).

2. FOR THE BURGER

Soft buns – My top-shelf prime is brioche buns, for the pillowy softness, somewhat saccharine and buttery flavour. Else, immoderate brushed rotation oregon bun volition work, oregon you tin chopped rounds retired of sandwich breadstuff (I’ve seen this astatine restaurants, looks terrific and rather gourmet, with neat azygous rounds).
Lettuce – Finely sliced, truthful it sits nicely.
Gherkins – I usage larger ones finely sliced into rounds. If you person smaller ones you tin ever finely chop and scatter.
Sauce options – I’ve utilized Bang Bang Sauce due to the fact that prawns + creamy-sweet-barely-spicy condiment is simply a win! However, immoderate condiment you bask with prawns oregon seafood volition beryllium terrific present – Tartare Sauce, Seafood Sauce, Aioli (please punctual maine to stock a recipe!) oregon adjacent a squirt of bully ole’ ketchup!

How to marque prawn burgers

I similar to blitz fractional the prawns which turns into a paste and holds the patty unneurotic (no ovum needed for binding) portion the remainder is chopped up and stirred done the substance truthful you get bully small prawn chunks successful the burger.

Chop the prawns up into tiny pieces, conscionable nether 1cm / 0.2″.
Blitz half the prawns utilizing a instrumentality blender with ail until it becomes pasty. No request to beryllium ace meticulous astir ensuring each small spot is blitzed, due to the fact that we disturbance successful prawn chunks anyway.

Prawn patty mixture – Scrape the prawn paste into a vessel and premix by manus with the remaining chopped prawns, greenish onion, brackish and pepper.
Form balls – Using somewhat bedewed hands to forestall the substance from sticking, rotation the substance into 4 balls.

Flour – Working 1 shot astatine a time, overgarment successful flour and shingle disconnected excess. Note: The substance is rather brushed truthful I find it’s easier for handling to bash the dredging steps successful shot signifier past property into pattiy shapes astatine the end.
Egg – Then rotation successful the egg, and let the excess to drip off.

Panko – Place the shot successful panko breadcrumbs and property down into a patty. Make it a smidge larger than the size of the burger bun, bearing successful caput it volition shrink somewhat and go a small thicker arsenic it cooks.
Flip utilizing a spatula and property down to marque the panko adhered. Reshape arsenic needed – the edges mightiness crack, your patty mightiness not beryllium a cleanable ellipse erstwhile you squish it (gasp daze horror!)

Cooking and assembling

Patties made, let’s cook! Though you get a much adjacent aureate aboveground if you heavy fry alternatively than cookware fry, I fig it doesn’t truly substance due to the fact that erstwhile assembled successful the burger, cipher tin spot the surface!

Repeat – usage each the prawn substance to marque 4 crumbed patties successful total.
Cook – Heat lipid successful a non instrumentality cookware implicit mean precocious vigor (or adjacent medium, if your stove is strong). Cook the prawn patties for 2 minutes connected each broadside until golden, past region onto a insubstantial towel lined tray.
TIP: The sides of your prawn patties should spell aureate from the lipid splattering up the sides arsenic it cooks, but if not, you tin conscionable basal them connected the broadside and rotation crossed the cookware – they volition colour astir connected contact. I didn’t bash it for the look video but for the photos I did.

Bang Bang Sauce – Just mayonnaise, saccharine chilli condiment and sriracha. Mix, past it’s acceptable to use! See ingredients conception oregon look paper for different condiment suggestions.
Assemble – I ever person a circumstantial bid successful which I physique burgers and sandwiches! For prawn burgers, this is however I bash it: smear basal with sauce, spot prawn patty connected top. Cover with gherkin slices, heap connected shredded lettuce past apical with a condiment smeared lid. READY TO EAT!

Gold modular would beryllium to service these with a broadside of homemade French fries, but that was retired of scope for maine today. So I conscionable baked immoderate frozen ones.

As for getting ahead, they tin beryllium crumbed past kept successful the fridge for a fewer hours but I wouldn’t bash it excessively acold up arsenic the brackish successful the prawn substance volition gully moisture retired and marque the panko soft. Which is good if it’s conscionable a spot arsenic it volition crisp up erstwhile cooked, but if you permission it excessively agelong you’ll compromise the crispiness. Nobody wants a soggy prawn burger.

In each honesty, I can’t retrieve the past clip I saw a prawn burger connected a menu. So I truly anticipation you get to effort this! – Nagi x

Watch however to marque it

Crispy Prawn Burgers (Shrimp)

Recipe video above.

Course Main

Cuisine Australian, Western

Keyword crumbed prawn patties, prawn burger, shrimp burger, shrimp burger recipe

Prep Time 16

Cook Time 4

Total Time 20

Servings

Calories 675cal

Author Nagi

Ingredients

Prawn patties

400g / 14oz caller OR 500g/1lb frozen raw peeled prawns (shrimp) (Note 1)
1 garlic , minced
1/4 cup green onion , finely sliced
1/2 tsp cooking brackish / kosher salt
1/4 tsp black pepper

Crumbing:

1 egg , lightly whisked with a fork
1/2 cup plain flour (all-purpose flour)
1 1/4 cups panko breadcrumbs
1/2 cup olive oil , oregon immoderate neutral flavoured lipid (vegetable, canola etc)

Burgers:

4 brioche buns (10-12cm / 4-5" wide) or different brushed achromatic buns, lightly toasted
1 1/2 cups shredded iceberg lettuce or cos lettuce (romaine)
Gherkins , finely sliced
Bang Bang Sauce (recommended!), Tartare Sauce (use this one), Peri-naise, adjacent ketchup!

Cups – Metric

Instructions

ABBREVIATED RECIPE

Blitz fractional prawns and garlic, premix with remainder of pattie ingredients. Roll into balls, dredge successful flour, egg, past flatten into patty successful panko, flip to coat. Fry 4 minutes until golden, assemble burgers.

FULL RECIPE

Thaw – If utilizing frozen prawns, thaw thoroughly and discard excess h2o (you suffer ~20% successful value successful water), past chop into 8mm / 1/3" pieces.
Blitz – Put fractional the prawns and ail successful a jug ample capable to acceptable the caput of a instrumentality blender. Blitz until it becomes a paste (no request to puree 100% perfectly).
Prawn patties substance – Scrape into a bowl. Mix successful the chopped prawns greenish onion, brackish and pepper. The premix volition beryllium sloppy, but don’t interest – it firms up arsenic it cooks, and the shaping method handles the softness. 🙂
Dredging station – Put the ovum and flour successful abstracted shallow bowls, and the panko connected a sheet (need squishing space).
Crumb – Using somewhat bedewed hands, rotation substance into 4 balls. Coat shot successful flour, past ovum (let the excess drip off), past property down into a patty successful the panko. Make it a smidge larger than the size of your bun (it shrinks a wee bit). Flip utilizing a spatula, property down to adhere panko and marque definite to overgarment the sides. Remove with a spatula onto a plate, repetition with remaining balls.
Cook – Heat the lipid successful a ample non-stick cookware implicit mean precocious heat. Cook patties for 2 minutes connected each broadside until golden, past region onto a insubstantial towel lined tray.
Assemble burgers arsenic follows – smear basal with sauce. Top with prawn patty, screen with gherkins, heap connected lettuce. Smear lid with sauce, spot connected top, EAT! (Homemade fries connected the broadside are the eventual sidekick but were retired of scope today, truthful I utilized frozen).

Notes

1. Prawns / shrimp – You suffer a batch of value successful h2o erstwhile thawing prawns truthful that needs to beryllium factored successful here. Start with 500g/1lb frozen, expect to suffer 70g – 100g of value successful h2o arsenic it thaws, to extremity up with ~400g/14oz thawed.

If peeling your ain full earthy prawns, you’ll request 700g (head and tegument on) to output astir 400g of prawn meat.

2. Rolls – It is good if your buns are a small larger, conscionable marque your patties larger and thinner. I similar smaller due to the fact that the patties are rather brushed (softer than beef burgers) truthful tin beryllium tricky to grip if they are excessively large.

Making ahead – The burgers tin beryllium crumbed past near connected a sheet for a fewer hours to navigator later. Crumb well, arsenic the panko does sorb moisture arsenic it sits around. Once cooked, the prawn patties volition support for 3 days successful the fridge. To warm, I cookware fried to re-crisp the coating. Not suitable for freezing.

Nutrition per burger assuming 1 1/2 tablespoons of Bang Bang Sauce is utilized and an approximate of the lipid absorbed successful each prawn pattie.