Recipe: Perfect Prawn Saganaki 🇬🇷 🦐

Recipe: Perfect Prawn Saganaki 🇬🇷 🦐 Delicious, fresh and tasty.

Prawn Saganaki 🇬🇷 🦐. Prawn Saganaki is Greece's famous seafood dish featuring prawns drenched in a fresh juicy tomato sauce and melted Feta cheese. It's ideal as a starter or you can serve it as a main with some rice, pasta or just a big chunk of crunchy Greek bread that is ideally dipped into that rich saltsa! The best-known Greek saganaki is a fried cheese appetizer prepared in a small frying pan.

Prawns are cooked in a rich, chilli-laced tomato sauce, topped with creamy feta and olive oil and left to bake in the oven.

Lisa Faulkner's sunshine prawns with feta is similar to this recipe but with more of a curry vibe… give it a go.

Put olive oil, onions and garlic in a deep pan and seal.

You can cook Prawn Saganaki 🇬🇷 🦐 using 12 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Prawn Saganaki 🇬🇷 🦐

1. Prepare 1 of small white onion, finely chopped.

2. You need 1 pack of on king prawns.

3. It’s 4-5 tbsp of extra-virgin olive oil.

4. Prepare 2-3 of garlic cloves, crushed or minced.

5. Prepare 1 tbsp of chilli flakes (I use Thai chilli flakes).

6. You need 2 of beef tomato, finely chopped.

7. You need 2-3 tbsp of olives.

8. Prepare of Some dry oregano.

9. Prepare 1 of green bell pepper, chopped.

10. You need of Salt and pepper.

11. Prepare 1 handful of parsley, finely chopped.

12. Prepare Splash of white wine (optional).

Traditionally prawn saganaki is served in the summer, but I think it adapts to cooler temperatures ideally.

What you need for prawn saganaki.

Also, don't stress if you don't have the traditional bowls or frying pan.

It works well in a deep dish frying pan too.

Prawn Saganaki 🇬🇷 🦐 instructions

1. Place some olive oil in the cooking pan. Once your pan gets to medium heat, add the garlic, pepper and onion and stir well until they turn translucent, add the shrimp..

2. Add a splash of white wine. Add the tomato, chilli flakes and seasoning with salt and pepper..

3. Let your prawns cook for a few min then add the feta cheese, oregano and the parsley. Serve hot..

Prawn saganaki is classic Greek meze at its best, as it uses our national cheese - feta - with our national drink, ouzo, in combination with tomato, in order to praise the noble prawn!

Saganaki is named after the frying pan in which it is traditionally prepared, a diminutive of sagani which is a frying pan with two handles.

Then its the time of the ouzo, tomatoes, parsley and salt with pepper.

Transfer the prawn saganaki mixture to oven safe ceramic bowls and crumble the feta on top.

Place under a hot grill until the feta melts into the sauce.