Prawn Spaghetti With Quick Creamy Sauce
An easy prawn spaghetti recipe with a quick and simple garlicky creamy sauce. Perfect for weeknight dinner and ready in a flash!
This is one of those delicious, super straightforward pasta dishes you can rustle up really quickly. Making it great for busy weeknights or when you really want dinner fast but don't want to wait for take-out.
You only need a handful of ingredients and the garlicky creamy sauce is so easy to make you just can't mess up!
I tend to serve this prawn dinner idea just tipped into bowls straight from the pan and skip the side dishes.
But if you were more organised and had more time, then prawn spaghetti goes great with steamed broccoli, a rocket salad or some really nice focaccia bread.
I think you'll love this prawn recipe, it's got a super indulgent vibe, but is totally faff free!
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Equipment Needed To Make Creamy Prawn Pasta
- Chopping board
- Vegetable knife
- Large saucepan - for cooking pasta
- Skillet pan - to make the sauce, choose one large enough to hold the pasta later
- Cooking spoon
- Tongs
- Colander
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Prawn Spaghetti Ingredients
You'll only need a handful of ingredients to make one of our favourite prawn dinner ideas!
- 140g dried spaghetti
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 2 cloves garlic - finely sliced
- 150g cooked prawns
- 100ml dry white wine
- 125ml double cream
- Handful of flat leaf parsley - roughly chopped
- pinch salt and black pepper
- ¼ teaspoon grated nutmeg - optional
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How To Make Creamy Prawn Spaghetti
You will just LOVE how quick and simple our creamy prawn pasta is to make
Step One - put the spaghetti on to cook
- Put the spaghetti into a pan full of boiling salted water and cook as per the packet instructions. Whilst the pasta cooks, get on and make the creamy garlic prawn sauce.
Step Two - make the creamy garlic prawn sauce
- Add the olive oil to a skillet pan over a low to medium heat and tip in the sliced garlic. Gently fry to soften and release the garlicky flavours into the olive oil.
- Next tip in the prawns and briskly stir fry in the hot garlicky oil.
- Turn up the heat and pour in the wine - it should sizzle and spit, let it cook for a minute or so on high to cook off the alcohol.
- Then reduce the heat and tip in the double cream - allow the sauce to simmer, warming the little prawns through thoroughly so they're piping hot. Season with black pepper.
Step Three - add the cooked spaghetti to the sauce
- Drain the cooked spaghetti using a colander - keep aside one tea cup of water in case you need to loosen the sauce later.
- Tip the cooked spaghetti into the pan with the creamy prawn sauce.
Step Four - toss the prawn spaghetti and creamy sauce together
- Using tongs toss the cooked spaghetti into the creamy garlic prawn sauce so that it's all coated and delicious! If the sauce needs loosening, add in a little of the reserved pasta water.
- Sprinkle over a little grating of nutmeg if using and add in the chopped flat leaf parsley.
Step Five - serve the prawn spaghetti
- Tip the prawn spaghetti into bowls and eat straight away! Mop up any juices with crusty bread.
Creamy Prawn Spaghetti Recipe Variations
We've given you a super simple creamy prawn pasta dish, but you can add in extra ingredients if you like to really make this prawn recipe your own!
- Make prawn linguine - swap the spaghetti for linguine or indeed any other pasta shape you like.
- Add some spice! - add in some freshly chopped chilli to the garlic or sprinkle over some chilli flakes before serving.
- Creamy prawn and mushroom pasta - add in some thinly sliced mushrooms to the pasta dish, they go great with prawns and all count towards hitting your recommended 5-a-day.
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Prawn Spaghetti In Creamy Sauce
A quick and simple prawn pasta dish that's great for busy weeknight cooking.
Ingredients
- 140g dried spaghetti
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 2 cloves garlic - thinly sliced
- 150g cooked prawns
- 100ml dry white wine
- 125ml double cream
- handful of flat leaf parsley
- pinch salt
- pinch black pepper
- ¼ teaspoon grated nutmeg - optional
Instructions
- Put the spaghetti into a pan full of boiling salted water and cook as per the packet instructions. Whilst the pasta cooks, get on and make the creamy garlic prawn sauce.
- Add the olive oil to a skillet pan over a low to medium heat and tip in the sliced garlic. Gently fry to soften and release the garlicky flavours into the olive oil.
- Next tip in the prawns and briskly stir fry in the hot garlicky oil.
- Turn up the heat and pour in the wine – it should sizzle and spit, let it cook for a minute or so on high to cook off the alcohol.
- Then reduce the heat and tip in the double cream – allow the sauce to simmer, warming the little prawns through thoroughly so they’re piping hot. Season with black pepper.
- Drain the cooked spaghetti using a colander – keep aside one tea cup of water in case you need to loosen the sauce later.
- Tip the cooked spaghetti into the pan with the creamy prawn sauce.
- Using tongs toss the cooked spaghetti into the creamy garlic prawn sauce so that it’s all coated and delicious! If the sauce needs loosening, add in a little of the reserved pasta water.
- Sprinkle over a little grating of nutmeg if using and add in the chopped flat leaf parsley.
- Tip the prawn spaghetti into bowls and eat straight away!
Nutrition Information:
Yield: 2 Serving Size: 1Amount Per Serving: Calories: 526Total Fat: 32gSaturated Fat: 16gTrans Fat: 1gUnsaturated Fat: 13gCholesterol: 230mgSodium: 816mgCarbohydrates: 28gFiber: 2gSugar: 3gProtein: 24g
Nutritional content will vary depending on the exact ingredients you use and how careful you are with measuring - this nutritional information is given as a general guide only and may not be accurate - you should always calculate your own nutritional information especially if you have specific dietary requirements.
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