Prawn crackers

NastyMatt

I went to Win-Yip the other day (awesome place btw!!) and brought some prawn crackers to cook at home. The instructions simply state "heat oil".. now which type? My guess is vegetable oil..

Any one know for sure if I cook them in vegetable oil or something else?

Plum_Pie

You need v hot oil to fry them, otherwise they don't 'puff up' and you end with a hard, greasy inedible crackers. Veg oil is definitely best, not olive as it's smoking point is too low.

http://www.cooking.com/advice/adgloss.asp?GlossType=ingr&Item=Vegetable+oil

Raspberry_Swirl

vegetable or sunflower oil. stick them in a deep fat fryer if you've got one, on the hottest setting.

flea72

prob best to shallow fry, and then either throw the oil away, or save to use the next time you cook prawn crackers, as they make the oil taste really fishy. definitely wouldnt cook them in a deep fat fryer, as everything you cook in the oil after that tastes of prawn

mrs_metal

I cooked them once in the deep fat fryer, heated the (vegatable) oil to maximum temperature, dropped them in, they puff up and cook VERY quickly, leave it a second or two too long and they were overcooked.

anyway the prawn crakers were lovely but the chips I cooked in the fat a couple of days later were REALLY manky, prawn flavoured chips don't really do it for me

thriftmonster

I use a wok and sunflower oil - the wok takes less oil than a pan and I use a chip basket to get them in and out of the oil really quickly.