Gamberetti con peperoncino aglio pomodoro
35 min
Gorgeous pasta dish featuring king prawns with garlic, chilli and tomato. The soy sauce and Thai fish sauce are optional, but worth it.
2 people made this
Ingredients
Serves: 4
- 1 large red onion
- 1 red chilli, seeded
- 4 garlic cloves
- 2 spring onions
- 1 small piece of root ginger
- 600g cherry tomatoes
- 1 green pepper, seeded
- olive or rapeseed oil
- 12 raw king prawns (frozen or fresh)
- 1 teaspoon soy sauce
- 1 teaspoon Thai fish sauce
- 1 tablespoon dried Italian mixed herbs
- 1 handful fresh basil, finely chopped
- 400g pasta (your own choice)
Method
Prep:20min ›
Cook:15min ›
Ready in:35min
- Dice the red onion, chilli, garlic, spring onion, root ginger and cherry tomatoes finely. Slice the green pepper into batons.
- Heat two saucepans with olive or rapeseed oil.
- Add the red onion, garlic, chilli, root ginger and green pepper to one saucepan and sauté gently until soft.
- Add the prawns and spring onion to the other saucepan and fry the prawns until they are fully cooked through.
- Add the prawns (including any cooking juices) and the spring onions to the saucepan with the garlic mixture, and then simmer gently for 5 minutes.
- Add the diced cherry tomatoes to the same saucepan and then add the soy sauce and Thai fish sauce. Add the dried Italian mixed herbs and simmer on a low to medium heat for a further 15 minutes, and also cook your pasta of choice at the same time.
- Add the cooked pasta into the saucepan and stir it through. Garnish with finely chopped fresh basil and then serve.
