Garlic Prawn Pasta with Cherry Tomatoes

Garlic Prawn Pasta with Cherry Tomatoes

Ready in 30 minutes Serves 1
This dish most recently appeared in My Classic (5 Meals For 1) on Sunday, January 26, 2020.

Ingredients

Prawns

  • 1 pack frozen prawns, defrosted
  • 2 cloves garlic, roughly chopped
  • Pinch of garlic chilli blend (optional)
  • 1 punnet cherry tomatoes
  • 1/2 cup chicken stock
  • 1 Tbsp butter
  • Juice of 1/2 lemon
  • 1/2 pack baby spinach

Pasta

  • 1 pack linguine

To Serve

  • 1/4 lemon, cut into wedges

Steps

  1. Bring a pot of salted water to the boil. Prep & cook prawns. Pat prawns dry and season. Heat a drizzle of oil in a fry-pan on high heat. Add prawns, garlic, garlic chilli blend and a pinch of salt and cook for about 3 minutes, until starting to brown. Add cherry tomatoes and stock and cook for about 3 minutes, until cherry tomatoes soften. Season to taste.
  2. Cook pasta. Cook pasta in boiling water for about 3 minutes or until tender. Drain and return to pot with a drizzle of oil to prevent sticking.
  3. To finish. Add butter, lemon juice and spinach to prawns, stir to combine and season to taste. Fold prawns through pasta. Prep lemon.
  4. Serve pasta and prawns with a lemon wedge.

Nutritional Information

Energy 2752 kj
658 kcal
Protein 47.2g
Carbohydrate 70.9g
Fat 19.0g