Chili prawn pasta. Pasta tossed with a rich tomato sauce with a tingle of spicy heat and plump prawns (shrimp). This Spicy Chilli Prawn Pasta is a total crowd pleaser to make all year round, and the only thing that requires chopping is parsley. This chilli prawn pasta is a delightful example of just how appetising and varied Italian cuisine is.
Boil pasta and when ready, drain, rinse in cold water and set aside to allow to cool.
Heat oil in wok/large frying pan and add spring onions, either pre-chopped or cut into the pan with scissors.
Once sizzling, add prawns and then chopped chili.
You can cook Chili prawn pasta using 11 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook that.
Ingredients of Chili prawn pasta
- You need 250 g of peeled and deveined tiger prawn.
- It's 180 g of penne or other pasta of choice.
- You need Half of a tablespoon olive oil.
- Prepare 1 of garlic clove, minced.
- You need Half of a lemon.
- You need 1 tablespoon of poon Chili flakes.
- Prepare 1 of tomato, diced.
- Prepare 4 tablespoons of tomato basil pasta sauce.
- Prepare 2 tablespoon of finely grated parmesan.
- It's of Salt.
- You need of Pepper.
Allow liquid to reduce, or dispose if excess. Drain the linguine pasta and sugar snap peas well, then toss into the prawn mixture. Tear in a handful of basil leaves, stir, and season with salt and pepper. The Chili Garlic Prawn Pasta with lemon butter sauce recipe is a deceptively simple but fragrant pasta dish.
Chili prawn pasta instructions
- Bring a large pot of water to the boil. Add a big pinch of salt and the pasta. Cook for the time per the packet instruction..
- Heat oil in a skillet over high heat. Add prawns and cook for 30 seconds, until surface just changes from translucent to opaque. Add chili flakes and garlic..
- Add tomato dices, pasta sauce, squeeze of lemon juice, parmesan, salt and pepper. Bring to simmer, turn heat down to medium and cook sauce for 1 minute, stirring frequently (don't cook for long otherwise will overcook prawns)..
- Add pasta, about 1/2 cup of pasta cooking water and parsley. Toss gently for 1 minute (or gently stir with wooden spoon or tongs) until sauce re-thickens and it coats the pasta. Adjust salt, pepper and spiciness to taste..
Garlic prawns are are bathed in the citrussy flavors of ripe lemon peel and tart juice enriched with butter, and is perfect for a quick meal. While the pasta is cooking, heat your olive oil in a large pan. Throw in your cherry tomatoes and cook for three minutes stirring constantly. Add your prawns, garlic, chilli, lemon zest, half of your lemon juice and the capers. Peel and de-vein prawns, leaving tails intact.