Salt and Pepper Yabbie Skewers
- 20 each shrimp shrimp or squid
- 100 grams rice flour or breadcrumb
- 5 grams salt
- 10 grams black pepper
- 80 grams arugula (roquette) or mizuna leaves
- 2 litres vegetable oil
- 1 x skewers as needed
- Start out by freezing your catch for 2 hours immediately before the preparation.
- Begin by heating up vegetable oil in a deep pot on the stove.
- Take a lot of care when deep frying and watch the protruding handle on some pots since bumping it can splash the oil and lead to a fire.
- I like to use vegetable or peanut oil as the plain flavours dont over-power the subtle flavours of the seafood.
- Remove the head from each yabbie and peel off the shell by snipping the edges of the shells with kitchen scissors.
- You can reserve the shells and heads, roast them and make a delicious stock or bisque (not needed for this recipe) so freeze everything but the tail meat for up to a few weeks until you need it.
- Depending on the size of each yabbie, you may need 5 to 6 smaller tails per skewer or 2 3 larger ones.
- Mix the salt & pepper with the rice flour and coat the skewered yabbies generously.
- Before you cook the yabbies, youll need to test the heat of the oil.
- You can do this by placing a skewer in the heated oil.
- If bubbles come out of the end of the skewer, the oil is hot enough.
- Lower the yabbies into the hot oil, they will need only 2 to 3 minutes to cook and the coating should be golden brown.
- Drain on paper toweling to soak up any excess oil.
shrimp shrimp, rice flour, salt, black pepper, arugula, vegetable oil, skewers
Taken from recipeland.com/recipe/v/salt-pepper-yabbie-skewers-50801 (may not work)