Recipe video above. Prawn cocktails, in canapé form! These one-bite mini tacos are fantastic finger food, and you’ll love the nifty trick for making the miniature taco shells - just use an upside-down muffin tin!Fill with anything chopped small enough to fit - try Jalapeño chicken, spicy salmon, Thai chicken salad or even old school taco beef! In the spirit of summer here in Australia (and an attempt to be grown-up cocktail party canapé worthy), I've gone for prawn cocktail with a classic Marie Rose sauce.
View original recipe on recipetineats.comCut 17 x 6cm/2.4" rounds, microwave to soften, oil and salt, press into upside muffin tin. Bake 12 minutes, cool in tin. Fill!
Preheat the oven to 180°C/350°F (160°C fan-forced). Get a standard 12 hole muffin tin.
Cut circles from the tortillas using a 6cm / 2.4" cutter. (Note 6 on using offcuts)
Warm - Spread half on a dinner plate and microwave for 30 seconds on high (makes them pliable). Spray the warm tortillas lightly with oil, sprinkle with half the salt.
Wedge - Turn the muffin tin upside down. Wedge the tortillas salt side down between the muffin tin holes - they fold into taco shapes! Repeat with remaining rounds.
Spray the surface of the tortillas lightly with oil (no salt).
Bake for 12 minutes, or until quite golden and crispy. Cool in the muffin tin so they set. (Stays crisp 2 days!)
Dice the prawns into small 5mm / 0.2" cubes (for large, cut in half horizontally, lengthwise then chop - see video).
Mix the Marie Rose sauce in a bowl. Then stir the prawns through, just before assembling.
Fill taco shells with prawn cocktail filling, sprinkle with chives. To keep them upright, place on a bed of rock salt or dried beans for serving.
Pass around, bask in praise, be coy when people ask how you made those marvellous mini taco shells!
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