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Soy-glazed barbecued prawns with cabbage and daikon salad and chilled soba

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Serves 4
Cooking Time Prep time 45 mins, cook 8 mins (plus pickling, marinating, chilling)
90 ml   soy sauce
30 gm   honey
30 ml   mirin
1 tbsp   finely grated ginger
1   garlic clove, finely chopped
2 tsp   sesame oil
36   medium uncooked prawns, cleaned, tails intact
270 gm   dried soba noodles
12   spring onions, trimmed and cut into 4cm lengths
9   shiitake mushrooms, halved
For brushing:   vegetable oil
To serve:   toasted sesame seeds
Cabbage and daikon salad
30 ml   mirin
20 gm   caster sugar
100 ml   rice wine vinegar
100 gm   daikon (about 1/3), cut into julienne
350 gm   Chinese cabbage (about ¼), thinly shaved on a mandolin
2   spring onions, thinly sliced
1 tsp   sesame oil
To serve:   toasted sesame seeds


1 For cabbage and daikon salad, stir mirin, sugar, ginger and 80ml vinegar in a saucepan over medium heat until sugar dissolves, then bring to the boil. Add daikon, transfer to a non-reactive container and refrigerate to pickle (25-30 minutes). Just before serving, drain daikon (reserve 2 tbsp liquid), combine daikon and reserved liquid in a bowl with remaining ingredients, toss lightly to combine, scatter with sesame seeds and refrigerate until required.
2 Stir soy sauce, honey, mirin, ginger, garlic and half the sesame oil in a small saucepan over low heat to combine. Transfer to a non-reactive container, cool slightly, add prawns and refrigerate to marinate (20 minutes). Meanwhile, soak bamboo skewers in cold water.
3 Meanwhile, cook noodles in a large saucepan of boiling salted water until just tender, drain, rinse under cold running water, drain, toss in a bowl with remaining sesame oil and refrigerate to chill.
4 Preheat a barbecue or char-grill pan to high heat. Drain prawns (reserve marinade) and thread onto bamboo skewers, alternating with spring onion and mushroom. Brush lightly with oil, then barbecue, turning occasionally and basting with remaining marinade, until just cooked through (2-3 minutes). Scatter with sesame seeds and serve with cabbage and daikon salad and chilled soba.

This recipe is from the January 2012 issue of Australian Gourmet Traveller.

Drink Suggestion Exuberant Marlborough sauvignon blanc.

RECIPE Emma Knowles PHOTOGRAPHY Ben Dearnley STYLING Vanessa Austin & Emma Knowles DRINK SUGGESTION Max Allen

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