Prawn Pasta

**Lucky_Phill** · 10-01-2025 12:30 PM

I went out to dinner the other night and ordered the Prawn Pasta ( creamy Garlic sauce )...

Not too bad, but the prawns were a little over -cooked, you know,,, a tad chewy... not overly, but !

Decided to see if I could replicate said dish. Bazinger.... success. My prawns were better, softer, just cooked and noice

I used 8 prawns and reduced the recipe to suit a single serve...

Creamy Prawn Pasta

Ingredients

▢ 250g fettuccine , or other long strand pasta of choice
▢ 2 tbsp butter , I use grass fed.
▢ 300 g small peeled raw prawns
▢ 3 garlic cloves , minced ( smashed them a mortar pestle with olive oil )
▢ 1/4 cup dry white wine
▢ 1 cup heavy / thickened cream
▢ 1/2 cup chicken broth (or fish or vegetable broth), preferably low sodium*
▢ 3/4 cup finely grated Parmesan cheese
▢ 2 tbsp finely chopped parsley or I used Coriander.
▢ Black pepper
▢ Parmesan , for serving

Instructions

Bring to boil a large pot of water. Add pasta and cook per packet MINUS 1 minute.
Just before draining, scoop out 1 cup of pasta cooking water and set aside. Drain pasta.
Meanwhile, melt 1 tbsp of butter in a large non stick frypan over medium high heat. Add prawns and cook for 1.5 minutes on each side until just cooked through. Remove prawns.
In the same frypan, add 1 tbsp butter. Once melted, add garlic. Stir for 20 seconds until fragrant.
Add wine and stir. Simmer for 2 minutes until wine mostly reduces.
Add cream, broth and Parmesan. Stir until the Parmesan is melted, then leave to simmer for 1 1/2 minutes until it thickens slightly (will thicken more in next step).
Add prawns, stir, then add pasta plus about 1/4 cup of reserved pasta water. Toss pasta (still on stove) and the sauce will thicken in about 30 - 45 seconds and start clinging to the pasta.
Take it off the stove before the sauce is as thick as you want - it will thicken more.
Sprinkle with most of the parsley and black pepper, check salt . Toss again until the sauce consistency is to your taste. Add a tiny splash of pasta water if it gets too gluggy.
Serve immediately, garnished with remaining parsley and Parmesan if desired.