Pasta with prawns in pumpkin sauce
40 min
Pasta with a creamy pumpkin prawn sauce, an unusual autumn dish.
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Ingredients
Serves: 4
- 200g pumpkin, seeded and peeled
- 2 tablespoons butter
- 250ml vegetable stock
- 200g pasta of your choice
- 250ml single cream
- 2 tablespoons butter
- 500g peeled and deveined prawns
- 1 teaspoon marjoram
- salt and ground pepper to taste
- 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
Method
Prep:10min ›
Cook:30min ›
Ready in:40min
- Cut pumpkin into small cubes. Heat 2 tablespoons butter in a saucepan and brown pumpkin on all sides. Add stock. Cover and simmer till pumpkin is soft, about 15 minutes.
- In the meantime, cook pasta al dente.
- Once the pumpkin is soft, transfer to a kitchen processor. Add cream and pulse until creamy.
- Heat 2 tablespoons butter in a frying pan and fry prawns along with marjoram. Add pumpkin sauce. Bring to a simmer. Add salt, pepper, and nutmeg. Take off heat.
- Arrange pasta on a plate and top with sauce.
