Pasta: Fettucine with Tiger Prawns

Pasta: Fettucine with Tiger Prawns
© Constantin Fischer

Pasta: Fettucine with Tiger Prawns

A quick pasta dish that tastes like the sea.

Constantin Fischer

For the prawns:

Ingredients (4 servings)
12 Black Tiger prawns (or other large raw prawns)
3 garlic cloves
salt
coconut oil

For the sauce:

Ingredients (4 servings)
shells from the prawns
6 carrots
1 white onion
1 bottle white wine
250 ml vegetable stock
2 bay leaves
4 cloves
1 twigs rosemary
lemon pepper
salt
olive oil
peanut oil

For the pasta:

Ingredients (4 servings)
500 g fettuccine
salt

To serve:

Ingredients (4 servings)
4 brazil nuts
  • Peel the prawns and slowly fry the prawn shells in a pan with a little peanut oil.
  • Clean the carrots (cut off the ends) and dice them, peel the onion, halve it and slice into strips. Add the carrots and onion to the prawn shells in the pan and fry for a short time. Deglaze with white wine and stock and simmer for about 20 minutes.
  • Add the bay leaves, cloves and rosemary and allow to infuse. At the end season with salt and pepper and add a little olive oil.
  • Cook the fettuccine according to the instructions on the packet in well-salted water for two minutes less than the time indicated. Strain and allow to finish cooking in the sauce.
  • Fry the prawns in a pan with a little coconut oil and the halved garlic cloves on both sides. Turn off the stove and leave to infuse for a few minutes. Lightly salt. Chop the brazil nuts and sprinkle over the dish to serve.
Photo gallery of the preparation.
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