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Dinner Inspiration: Quick and Easy Prawn Pasta Recipe

Dinner Inspiration: Quick and Easy Prawn Pasta Recipe
Carly Jacobs
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his is actually Mr Smaggle’s recipe. He invented it one night and has been perfecting it ever since. We tend to only do a small amount of pasta (gluten free obviously!) but it’s a perfect Friday night with a glass of wine meal. It’s also a two-pot meal so there’s never much washing up afterwards. It’s also super tasty – the prawns we bought for this batch were from the Vic Markets. Fresher than the stuff mermaids eat. For real.

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Chilli, Basil and Prawn Pasta Recipe
 
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A delicious, flavoursome and light pasta dish with prawns, chilli and basil.
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Serves: 3 to 4
What You Need
  • 500g Raw Prawns
  • Pasta
  • 3 Kaffir Lime Leaves (optional)
  • Bunch of Basil (roughly chopped)
  • 1 Large Chilli
  • 1 Small Chilli
  • 1 punnet of Cherry Tomatoes
  • Small bunch of Lemon Thyme
  • 1 Small Red Onion
  • Olive Oil
What You Do
  1. Start the pasta cooking, by the time it’s finished cooking the rest will be ready to toss through.
  2. Finely chop the onion, garlic, chilli then sauté with half the lemon thyme and the kaffir lime leaves on medium heat with enough olive oil to make a layer across the pan (use more than you think - it essentially becomes the sauce).
  3. When the garlic is fragrant in the pan, halve the cherry tomatoes and sauté them.
  4. When the cherry tomatoes start to loose their structure and are easy to squish, turn up the heat and toss through the prawns.
  5. When the prawns turn opaque, turn the heat off and toss through the basil.
  6. Mix the pasta and prawns together and remove the kaffir lime leaves.
  7. Serve with salt and cracked pepper.

 

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We’re not huge pasta eaters but when we do pasta, we do it right.

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What’s your most favourite pasta recipe? Is pasta a staple at your house?

 

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13 Comments

  1. Sammie @ The Annoyed Thyroid 9 years ago

    We don’t eat heaps of pasta but when we do it’s gluten free. We make this salami/sour cream combo with loads of hidden veggies – it sounds so wrong but it tastes so right. It’s the ultimate comfort food. This dish looks looks full of fresh and big flavours – so much yum!

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      Carly Jacobs 9 years ago

      It is so delicious! I might actually get Mr Smags to make it for dinner tonight… sneaky!

  2. Yum! Pinning to remember to try this later!

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      Carly Jacobs 9 years ago

      Oh awesome! I love when people pin my stuff. I don’t really ‘get’ pinterest so that made my day.

  3. emmabovary 9 years ago

    That sounds amazing, definitely going to give that one a go!

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      Carly Jacobs 9 years ago

      It’s so quick and easy – perfect weeknight dinner!

  4. Hello deliciousness! We love a healthy, yummy gluten free pasta recipe – and I’m a bit obsessed with prawns – so this is definitely being cooked in our house ASAP!

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      Carly Jacobs 9 years ago

      I think even Amalfi would like it… although CHICKEN????? would be more up his alley.

  5. Yep. I pinned it too. It looks, sounds, smells (yep I can smmmmell it) delish! Thank you!

  6. Sarah 9 years ago

    Pasta may be my spirit food. Is that a thing? I love crawfish pasta with a little bit of a cream and cheese sauce. It’s sooo good. Crawfish with their juices/fat (sounds gross but it’s delicious) and a bit of butter with fresh green onions and parsley.

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