Thai Prawn Patties

Plum Sauce

• 100 g dried candied plums, pitted
• 5 garlic cloves
• 2 tsp soy sauce
• 2 Tbsp sugar
• 1 piece tangerine peel (1 cm x 4 cm), soaked until soft then chopped
• ¼ tsp fine sea salt
• 10 g fresh root ginger, peeled, cut in round slices (2 mm)
• 300 g water
• 1 tsp cornflour, mixed with 1 Tbsp water

Prawn Patties

• 600 g raw prawns, peeled, deveined
• 70 g pork mince, broken in pieces
• 1 medium egg
• 1 tsp sugar
• 1 tsp sesame oil
• 2 pinches ground black pepper
• 120 g strong white bread flour, plus extra for dusting
• vegetable oil, for frying
  of sunflower oil, for frying