Luxurious King Prawn Spaghetti
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- Difficulty: medium
- Serves: 4
Description
This is an adaptation of Gordon Ramsay's signature "Lobster Spaghetti" dish. It's not really practical to buy lobsters often unless you are particularly affluent or entertain lots, so I'm using fresh King prawns here. This dish is all about timing - you need to cook the prawns just before you make the sauce, so once they are done it's all systems go.
add to shopping list Ingredients
5 fresh King (or large) prawns, with shell
5 or so cherry tomatoes, diced
handful of fresh basil leaves, chopped
couple of stalks of spring onion, chopped
glass of wine
clove of garlic, finely chopped
chilli, finely chopped
butter, olive oil
lemon juice
Preparation
Makes 2 portions for a light supper.
1. Shell the prawns and keep the shells for later. Butterfly the prawns and flatten them out.
2. Heat a griddle pan with some butter and a little olive oil. Flash-fry the prawns on both sides for literally a few seconds each. Sprinkle with some lemon juice and season with salt and pepper. Remove from the pan once just-cooked and reserve.
3. Keep the used oil in the pan and keep the heat on. Throw in the shells and let them go pink whilst moving them around a bit. Remove the shells. Add another knob of butter. Add the garlic and chilli - sautee for a few seconds. Add the tomatoes and wine then reduce the heat.
4. Start cooking your pasta in some boiling water. Roughly chop the cooked prawns.
5. When the liquid in your sauce pan has almost evaporated, add the basil, spring onions and cooked prawns. Stir and season with freshly ground salt and black pepper.
6. Drain the pasta. Toss with the prawn sauce. Plate up, drizzle with olive oil and sprinkle some parmesan - serve immediately.
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8/08/12
tamarillo says:
great recipe - I use this one all the time... I cheat now and use italian can tomatoes with garlic... yum yum...
8/08/12
kimmallari says:
this does look luxurious!!! love prawns, love noodles! this is the perfect dish for me!
8/08/12
lingcheung says:
I love the sound of this dish - this is what i'll be attemping for dinner tonight!
Maybe you could add what kind of wine you used though - you just said 'glass of wine'. I'm guessing white? However, red wine could also go equally as well I suppose??
8/08/12
rachel2 says:
oh you had me at "prawn". *gnaws arm. btw, have you seen gordon ramsay's dessert book? was wondering if it's any good..
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