Prawn wafers: a prawn product

Prawn wafer is a product that can be prepared from minced prawn meat mixed with starch and other ingredients in suitable proportions, steamed and dried after cutting into desired sizes and shapes.

Ingredients: Cooked prawn meat (cooked in 7% boiling brine for 4-6 minutes) -2 kgs; Corn flour -1 kg; Tapioca starch - 2 kgs; Common salt (refined) -50 gms and Water - 3.5 litre.

Process:

1.Homogenise the cooked prawn meat with one litre of water for 10 minutes in a mechanical grinding machine

2. Add the corn flour, tapioca starch, salt and rest of the water and blend the whole mass for one hour.

3. Spread the homogenised mass uniformly in aluminum tray in a thin layer of 3-4 mm. Thickness and cook in steam for 10-15 minutes.

4. Cool to room temperature.

5. Cut the layer into desired shapes and dry under sun or in artificial dryer at 45⁰ – 50⁰ C to moisture content below 10%.

6. Pack suitable lots of the dried product in sealed polythene bags or glass jars and store in cool and dry place. Permitted food colours can be incorporated, if needed at the time of mixing the other ingredients with the blended prawn to get the desired colour.

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