Simple King Prawn, Garlic & Chili Pasta (with head of prawns stock)🦐

Name: Simple King Prawn, Garlic & Chili Pasta (with head of prawns stock)🦐
Total time: 1500 s
Yield: 2 servings
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: 10 Head-on uncooked prawns; 4-5 Mushrooms; 2 Spaghetti; 1 Chilli; lots of Garlic; Black pepper; Salt; 2 tsp sake or cooking wine (white or red both are avaliable); Olive oil for cooking

Erica @ericaypp

Bristol

I bought fresh head-on uncooked prawns in the fish shop and would love to make prawn stock to add amazing flavour into my spaghetti ! I also put some double cream and parmesan cheese at the end to make it slightly creamy.

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Ingredients

25mins

2 servings

10Head-on uncooked prawns
4-5Mushrooms
2Spaghetti
1Chilli
lots of Garlic
Black pepper
Salt
2 tspsake or cooking wine (white or red both are avaliable)
Olive oil for cooking

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Steps

25mins

1

Using a sharp knife, cut through right behind where the head meets the body. Without lifting the knife, push the head to the side. Continue with the remaining prawns, saving the heads for stock.
Peel and devein prawns by using a small sharp knife to make a slit along the middle of the back to expose the dark vein, then rinsing prawns in cold water. Dip prawns into sake and wait for cook.
2

Boiled Spaghetti for 8 mins
3

Make fresh garlic & chili oil in the corner of pan over medium-low heat. Remove the pan from the stove if it's too hot and keep rotating garlic.
4

Remove garlic & chili. Roast head of prawns and sprinkle over some salt. Roast them up until they were crisp, and add some water and simmer them. Press them to release the flavour into the stock.
5

Remove heads and put garlic & chili back. Stir fry the prawns and mushrooms for few minutes then add cooked Spaghetti together.
6

Add some salt & black pepper and turn off the stove. Add some double cream in the pan at the end. Enjoy it with some parmesan cheese