Prawns Croquettes

Ingredients:
200 gms prawns
100 gms carrots
6 French beans
100 gms small red onions
2 tbsps butter
5 tbsps plain flour
2 cups milk
2 cups bread crumbs
Salt to taste
1/2 tsp pepper
2 eggs
3 cups vegetable oil

Method:
1. Slit down the back of each prawns & lift off the intestinal vein before washing in salt water. Dry the meat throughly on kitchen paper towels so the prawns will be crisp & not saggy after cooking.
2. Scrape the skin off the carrot & dice finely. String the French beans & slice finely. Peel the red onions & slice thinly.
3. Wash the spring onions,discard the white bulbous end & slice the green stalk very finely.
4.Stir the milk into the flour until smooth.
5. Heat the wok over a high flame for 1/2 minutes,then turn the heat to medium. Put in the butter. When the butter has melted completely,add the sliced onions & stir-fry for 5 minutes until limp.
6. Add the carrots & stir-fry for another 5 minutes before adding the meat. Stir-fry until the spring become limp. Stir the batter once/twice to recombine the ingredients & pour into the wok. Keep stirring over a lower flame.
7. The sauce should be thick & cooked before turn off the fire. Add the salt & pepper.
8. Put the white sauce mixture into a bowl & cool at room temperature. Put in the refrigerator for a few hours until cold.
9. When cool & stiff, make the croquette shapes.
10. Break the eggs into a deep plate & beat. Put the breadcrumbs on a large flat plate.
11. Scoop out 1 tbspful of the thickened sauce & form into roll shape.
12. Lift out the croquette with a spoon & dip into the beaten egg. Make sure don't spoil the shape. The croquette should be 4-5 cm long. Kept in the refrigerator for a few days.
13. Heat some oil for deep frying. When the oil is hot ease in one croquette at a time. The oil should be very hot or crust will bust & the sauce will ooze out. Cooked until croquettes golden brown.