Prawn cocktail mini tacos (shrimp)
Total Time
1 hour and 7 minutes
Prep Time
25 minutes
Cook Time
12 minutes
Rating
5 out of 5 stars
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Ingredients
17 servings
- 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
- 220g/7 oz cooked prawns/shrimp, peeled (ie 500g/1 lb whole cooked in shell, then peel yourself, Note 2)
- 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)
- 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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Preparation
Step 1
Abbreviated recipe:
Step 2
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!
Step 3
Crispy mini taco shells:
Step 4
Preheat the oven to 180°C/350°F (160°C fan-forced). Get a standard 12 hole muffin tin.
Step 5
Cut circles from the tortillas using a 6cm / 2.4" cutter. (Note 6 on using offcuts)
Step 6
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.
Step 7
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.
Step 8
Spray the surface of the tortillas lightly with oil (no salt).
Step 9
Bake for 12 minutes, or until quite golden and crispy. Cool in the muffin tin so they set. (Stays crisp 2 days!)
Step 10
Prawn cocktail filling:
Step 11
Dice the prawns into small 5mm / 0.2" cubes (for large, cut in half horizontally, lengthwise then chop - see video).
Step 12
Mix the Marie Rose sauce in a bowl. Then stir the prawns through, just before assembling.
Step 13
Assembling:
Step 14
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.
Step 15
Pass around, bask in praise, be coy when people ask how you made those marvellous mini taco shells!
Step 16
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