Created by: Love Australian Prawns
Serves: 4
Prep time: 15 minutes
Cook time: 1 hour (including frying eshallots) – or – 25 minutes (when using store bought crispy shallots)

Ingredients

  • 20 large green Australian prawns, body peeled, keeping tail and head intact 
  • 250 g thin dried vermicelli noodles 
  • 2 tablespoons fried onion oil or vegetable oil 
  • ½ cup laksa paste
  • 400 ml can of coconut cream 
  • 1 ½ cups chicken stock 
  • 1 tablespoon fish sauce 
  • 200 g snow peas, trimmed 
  • 1 cup snow pea shoots 
  • Coriander leaves and fresh lime to serve

Fried eschallots*

  • 10 eschallots, peeled and thinly sliced on a mandolin 
  • 150 ml vegetable oil

* alternatively you can use store bought crispy shallots (saves 45 minutes cooking time).

For the complete recipe from Love Australian Prawns, click here.