This is a modern take on the old-school favourite prawn cocktail. Prawns and shrimps are notoriously easy to overcook, but with sous vide cooking you avoid that potential pitfall. When cooked for 15 minutes at 65ºC, they are juicy and soft – perfect when combined with the fresh dill and mayonnaise dressing. Note: If you have larger prawns, you may want to cook them for a bit longer (and in that case you'll need fewer, too). Although this recipe makes just four dinner rolls, you can multiply the ingredients as necessary. These sous vide prawn cocktail sliders are just as great as a meal for two as they are for entertaining, or even better, for a picnic. Have napkins handy because they can get a little messy!
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.