Sous Vide Smoked Prawns

Anova Culinary

Get the smoky flavour of authentic barbequed prawns without actually having to fire up the barbeque. Although if DO have time to barbeque, then by all means go for it and enjoy a delicious smack of double smokiness. But for those weeknight evenings when you don't have the time or energy to get the barbeque going (let alone clean it), these smoke-salt-infused prawns will bring your taste buds right back to a lazy sunny Sunday in the garden.

Author

Christina Wylie

Christina Wylie is an award-winning writer, author, editor, food stylist, recipe creator, entrepreneur and radio host whose work has been featured in The Times & The Sunday Times, Time Out (Melbourne, Sydney, Hong Kong and Dubai), Traveler’s Digest, Fah Thai Magazine, Broadsheet, Wining & Dining and many other internationally renowned publications. In 2013, after almost a decade of working as an international journalist, Christina founded the online lifestyle magazine The GAB Magazine, for which she now leads a team of 60 writers based all across Australia. She then founded Samui Life Magazine in 2016. After working as a recipe creator for Anova Culinary for over a year, she signed a cookbook contract with the American-based, international publishing company Quarto. Her cookbook, titled The Sous Vide Kitchen: Techniques, Ideas, and More Than 100 Recipes to Cook at Home, was published worldwide in 2017. She wrote, styled, and photographed everything that you see within that book. In 2017 she opened her first restaurant, Bootlegger, in Koh Samui, Thailand. She is currently in the initial stages of launching Bootlegger 2 in Phuket in 2018, and is looking to open Bootlegger 3 in Bangkok in 2019. She is currently working towards stepping into the world of food and travel presenting. As an entrepreneur herself, Christina co-founded the charity initiative Project Gen Z in 2015 to teach orphaned Cambodian children entrepreneurial skills. A British expat born and raised in Hong Kong, Christina has worked across the globe, and has lived in Thailand, London, Hong Kong, Australia and South Africa over the years.

Prep Time: 00:10

Recipe Time: 00:15

Temperature : 149F / 65C

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Preheat Anova sous vide machine to 149F (65C).
  2. Toss the prawns with the olive oil, smoked salt and pepper, seal in bags and cook sous vide for 15 minutes.

Finishing Steps

  1. Take the heads off the prawns and quickly finish them in a hot pan just until you get some good colour, then serve prawns with a drizzle of extra virgin olive oil and some extra smoked salt on the side (to add to taste).