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Written by Reuben Riffel shared his culinary talents with this Crispy Snoek and Prawn Dumplings Recipe with Rooibos Tea Salt on The Today Show in the USA.
For this Snoek and Prawn Dumplings Recipe you can use practically any local fish, in this instance Reuben Riffel recommend snoek for the South Africans and Snapper or any white fish for those in the USA and elsewhere.
The Rooibos tea salt is very easy to whip up along with some thyme and will have a variety of uses with other recipes.
Watch Reuben Riffel on the Today Show in the US preparing his, Crispy Snoek and Prawn Dumplings Recipe. (The segment ends with another Reuben Riffel Snoek Recipe with West Coast Basting and Salsa Recipe.)
| For the Rooibos Tea | |||
| Rooibos Tea Leaves | 1.5 | teaspoons | |
| Sea Salt | 1/4 | cup | |
| Fresh Thyme | 1 | tablespoon | |
| For the dumplings | |||
| White Fish Fillet | 200 | g | |
| Prawns | 250 | g | |
| Egg White | 1 | ||
| Sesame Oil | 2 | ||
| Rice Flakes | |||
| Sunflower Oil |
For the rooibos tea salt
1 . Using a pestle and mortar pound together the rooibos tea, thyme and salt
For the fish and prawn dumplings
1 . Preheat the oil to 180C
2 . Chop up the fish and the prawns
3 . Blitz the fish
4 . Add an egg white
5 . Blitz some more
6 . Add 1/2 the chopped prawns
7 . Blitz again
8 . Mix together with the remaining prawns
9 . Pour in a drop of sesame oil.
10 . Season with salt & pepper
11 . Roll into balls
12 . Coat with some rice flakes
13 . Deep fry for until crispy and golden
14 . Drain oil on kitchen towel
15 . Serve hot with a sprinkling of Rooibos Tea Salt
A little wiki about Prawns
Prawns are decapod crustaceans of which there are 540 extant species, in seven families, and a fossil record extending back to the Devonian. They differ from other, similar crustaceans, such as shrimp and boxer shrimp by the branching form of the gills and by the fact that they do not brood their eggs, but release them directly into the water.
Prawns may reach a length of over 330 millimetres and a mass of 450 grams and are widely fished and farmed for human consumption.
In many contexts such as commercial farming and fisheries both shrimp and prawns are referred to interchangeably. However, recent aquaculture literature increasingly uses the term “prawn” only for the freshwater forms of palaemonids and “shrimp” for the marine penaeids.
In the United Kingdom, the word “prawn” is more common on menus than “shrimp”, while the opposite is the case in North America. The term “prawn” is also loosely used to describe any large shrimp, especially those like “king prawns”, sometimes known as “jumbo shrimp”.
South Africa, Australia and some other Commonwealth nations follow this British usage to an even greater extent, using the word “prawn” almost exclusively. When Australian comedian Paul Hogan used the phrase, “I’ll slip an extra shrimp on the barbie for you” in an American television advertisement it was intended to make what he was saying easier for his American audience to understand, and was thus a deliberate distortion of what an Australian would typically say.
