Warm totopos with prawns & avocado
Totopos – homemade fried tortilla chips – are traditionally made with yesterday’s tortillas, but you can make them with fresh ones too and they are so much nicer than bought crisps. Serve this as a sharing starter or a nibble to have with drinks – pre-assembled they make great canapés.
- Serves4 as a starter or snack
- CourseStarter
- Prepare10 mins
- Cook10 mins
- Total time20 mins
- PlusPreparation time 10 minutes + salting
Ingredients
- 300g pack small flour tortilla wraps, quartered
- 500ml sunflower oil, for frying
For the salsa
- 2 ripe Gem Gourmet Avocados, finely diced
- 2 Cooks’ Ingredients Unwaxed Limes, juice
- 3 salad onions, finely sliced
- 2 x 25g packs coriander, leaves finely chopped
- 1 red chilli, deseeded if liked, finely chopped
- 150g pack Extra Large King Prawns, roughly chopped
Method
Mix all the ingredients for the salsa together but don’t season. Cover and set aside.
For the totopos, line a large tray with several sheets of kitchen roll and heat a 2cm depth of oil in a large frying or sauté pan over a medium-high heat. After around 3 minutes, drop a tortilla piece into it – if it sizzles, then it’s ready to cook with – if not, leave it in there until it does.
Once the oil is hot enough, fry the tortillas in batches for around 1 minute, turning half way, until golden and crisp. Remove from the oil with a slotted spoon and drain on the kitchen roll as you go, scattering each batch with a little table salt.
Once they’re all cooked, season the salsa with salt, then transfer to a serving dish. Tip the totopos into another dish and serve, putting a spoon in the salsa so guests can scoop the mixture onto the totopos.
Nutritional
Typical values per serving when made using specific products in recipe
Energy | 2,457kJ/ 590kcals |
|---|---|
Fat | 37g |
Saturated Fat | 6.7g |
Carbohydrates | 44g |
Sugars | 3.4g |
Fibre | 11g |
Protein | 16g |
Salt | 1.3g |