4 sheets filo pastry
200g crab meat
1 avocado, stoned and diced
8 cherry tomatoes, cut into quarters
1 leek, finely shredded
1 lemon balm
50ml Grappolini Paneolio Extra Virgin Olive Oil
For the sauce
200g prawns, shelled
1onion, chopped
1carrot, chopped
Chicken stock
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To make the filo baskets
Heat the oil in a frying pan and add the crabmeat, avocado,
cherry tomatoes, leek and lemon balm and cook for 3 minutes
over a low flame. Remove from the heat and drain off the excess
liquid.
Brush a sheet of filo pastry with extra virgin olive oil
and cover with another sheet. Place the drained mixture in
the center of the filo sheets. Gently brush the corners with
extra virgin olive oil, close together and press tightly.
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Repeat
the other two pastry sheets. Bake in a preheated oven at 180C
until the pastry is slightly browned.
To make the sauce
Fry the onion and the carrot and prawns for about 5 minutes.
Cover with the chicken stock and let simmer for about 20 minutes
until it has reduced. Liquidise in a food processor and pass
through a fine.
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