Prata Wrap Cockles Recipe: simply delicious

Prata Wrap Cockles – We eat out so much at our local food courts that it really does allow you to get confidence to try. Try to eat and try to cook. So even the recipes where I am not comparing to a local dish are related in some shape or form to some experience.

I am not madly in love with the taste of cooked fish as you know, but I’ll try it anyway. The same applies for shellfish, but I’ll try. It was always taught to me to “not eat with my eyes”, and “try before you say you don’t like”. Here is a great example of that mentality.

I was cooking one day for a photo shoot for book No 1, and I could not get the ingredients I needed. Standing, with limited time, in the supermarket I got creative. I’ll get cockles instead and tweak my initial recipe.

So cooking and creating on the fly, with an ingredient I don’t really like. You see what I mean re the confidence booster from the food court. This is a totally made up dish, Chez Kennett style.

To make 6 Cockle in Prata Wraps you’ll need;

• A tray of cockles;
• 3 stalks of lemon grass finely sliced;
• 3 garlic cloves finely sliced;
• 2 chili padi sliced thinly;
• Half a glass of white wine (any will do);
• 6 or so warmed prata (yes you could make them yourself, or be like me and buy some frozen from the supermarket); and
• A handful of ripped fresh coriander.

In a fairly big pot add the white wine, chillies, garlic and lemon grass and heat until the strong wine smell has gone. Add in the cockles shaking continually until the cockles open, which should be no more than 5 minutes, and yes I would discard any that do not open. De-shell those that open.

On a plate lay the prata and spoon on the cockles, and the mixture from the pot, with a little more of that ripped coriander to freshen it up.

Then “the plan” is that the guest eating dinner with you simply takes out the cockle meat and herbs and then lays them on the prata and rolls it up to make a cockle and prata wrap to their preference.

Nicely done, and so so easy. ENJOY!!!