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Luscious lemon & chilli prawn pasta
Take your taste buds to southern Italy, where this dish was born. We’ve added extra filling power to the classic chilli/lemon/prawn combo with lightly cooked summer veg – onions, courgette, spinach and tomatoes – tossed through lashings of spaghetti. Delizioso!
SWK: Source of fibre
SWK: High protein
Plants 5
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Serving size
Ingredients
- 200g pasta (Wheat) (Durum wheat semolina)
- 200g prawns (Crustaceans)
- 1 vegetable stock cube (use half) (Celery) (Sea salt, potato starch*, sustainable palm oil*, sugar*, vegetables*(6,8%) [celery*, onion*, carrot*, parsnip*, tomato*], sunflower oil*, yeast extract, caramelised sugar*, herbs* & spices* ( lovage*, turmeric*, parsley*, black pepper*) *Organic ingredients)
- 2 garlic clove
- 1 onion
- 1 courgette
- 1 chilli
- 80g baby spinach
- 1 handful of fresh flat-leaf parsley
- 1 unwaxed lemon
- 190g Tomatoes Baby Seasonal Mix
Nutritional Information
Calories: 532
Protein: 35g
Carbs: 90g
Fat: 3.9g
Ingredients
- 2 onion
- 2 courgette
- 4 garlic clove
- 1 chilli
- 160g baby spinach
- 1 handful of fresh flat-leaf parsley
- 1 unwaxed lemon
- 400g pasta (Wheat) (Durum wheat semolina)
- 400g prawns (Crustaceans)
- 1 vegetable stock cube (Celery) (Sea salt, potato starch*, sustainable palm oil*, sugar*, vegetables*(6,8%) [celery*, onion*, carrot*, parsnip*, tomato*], sunflower oil*, yeast extract, caramelised sugar*, herbs* & spices* ( lovage*, turmeric*, parsley*, black pepper*) *Organic ingredients)
- 380g Tomatoes Baby Seasonal Mix
Nutritional Information
Calories: 523
Protein: 34g
Carbs: 87g
Fat: 3.8g
Luscious lemon & chilli prawn pasta
Take your taste buds to southern Italy, where this dish was born. We’ve added extra filling power to the classic chilli/lemon/prawn combo with lightly cooked summer veg – onions, courgette, spinach and tomatoes – tossed through lashings of spaghetti. Delizioso!
Cook time:
25 mins
Cuisine:
Italian
Food group:
Shellfish
Allergens: Wheat, Crustaceans, Celery
Cooking Instructions
Char the veg
- Heat your grill to high. Peel the onions and chop each into 6 wedges. Cut the courgettes into ½cm-thick slices, and halve or quarter any larger tomatoes.
- Put the onions, courgettes and tomatoes on a baking tray lined with foil, spritz with cooking spray and grill for 10-12 mins until soft and beginning to blacken.
Chop, chop!
- Meanwhile, peel and crush the garlic, then thinly slice the chilli (deseed for less heat). Roughly chop the spinach, and finely chop the parsley. Zest, halve and juice the lemon.
Boil your pasta & spinach
- Cook the pasta in boiling water for 7-8 mins, adding the spinach for the final 30 seconds. Drain, reserving 200ml cooking water (300ml for 4 portions).
Sauce things up
- At the same time, spritz a large, deep non-stick frying pan with cooking spray and put it over a medium heat. Fry the prawns for 3 mins.
- Add the garlic and half the chilli (to taste) and cook for 1 min.
- Stir in the grilled veg, crumble in the stock and pour in 150ml of the reserved pasta water (use all the stock and 200ml reserved water for 4 portions). Stir well and simmer for 3-4 mins.
- Add half the parsley and the lemon juice (to taste), then lightly season.
Finish & serve
- Add the pasta and spinach to the frying pan and mix well to coat, using some of the remaining reserved pasta water to thin the sauce if you need to.
- Scatter over the lemon zest, remaining chilli (to taste) and parsley to serve.