Creamy Garlic Prawn Fettuccine
Do you love creamy garlic prawns that you get at the pub? You know the one, served on a mound of plain rice. And wished it was saucier and was with pasta, then this is the dish for you! Deliciously pan seared prawns and creamy garlic sauce. What more could you want?
We start by quickly cooking the prawns in your frypan, then once they’re done, we remove them so not to over cook them.
Then we start the sauce by sautéing finely minced garlic in butter, adding wine, cream, stock, some herbs and spices, parmesan and you have an irresistible sauce. Return the prawns to the pan to rewarm them, add the pasta, toss, toss, toss, serve!
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Creamy Garlic Prawn Fettuccine
Equipment
- 1 large frypan
- 1 large saucepan
Ingredients
Prawns
- 15 grams/0.5oz butter
- 400 grams/14oz green prawn meat
- ¼ tsp salt
Garlic Sauce
- 35 grams/1.2oz butter
- 6 garlic cloves finely minced
- 200mL white wine
- 200mL chicken stock
- 350mL cream
- 75 grams/2.6oz parmesan finely grated
- 1½ tsp dried parsley
- ¾ tsp pepper fine fresh ground
- 1 tsp garlic powder
- 3 tsp cornflour and 6tsp water to make cornflour slurry mix together well
Pasta
- 400g /14oz long pasta eg spaghetti, fettuccine, linguine
- 2 tsp salt to add to pasta water
Instructions
- In a large saucepan, add your pasta to salted, boiling water. Cook the pasta as per packet directions.
- Put your frypan on high heat and melt the 15g of butter. Once melted add your prawns and sprinkle them with the salt. Stir these for about four minutes until they are nice and pink and cooked through. Remove the prawns to a plate.
- Add the frypan back to the heat and heat on medium. Add the 35g of butter, heat until melted, add garlic and cook stirring for about 3-4 minutes. You don't want the garlic to brown, you just want to infuse it's flavour into the butter.
- Add wine, and cook the mixture until the wine has almost completely evaporated.
- Add the chicken stock, cream, parmesan, parsley, pepper and garlic powder into the pan. Bring to the boil and let this bubble for about 2 minutes.
- Mix the cornflour and the water together well, add to the sauce and immediately mix together well. Add the prawns back in to heat up.
- Drain your cooked pasta well and add to the sauce. Toss to combine well. Serve with another light dusting of parmesan.