Nikitasa Mishra
4 min readDec 18, 2023

Creamy Garlic Prawn Pasta 🍝

This Creamy Garlic Prawn Pasta is for that large number of evenings when only a rich pasta will do! This pasta variant of Smooth Garlic Prawns highlights pasta covered in a velvety sauce mixed with garlic flavor, and threw through with full prawns (shrimp). It’s liberal however not strangely rich. Each pasta darlings' little glimpse of heaven!

Creamy Garlic Prawn Pasta
The weekend is here and we merit a treat!!! As opposed to going out for supper, I figure you ought to make THIS delectable Rich Garlic Prawn Pasta at home. 🙂

Fixings
▢8 oz/250g fettuccine , or other long strand pasta of decision
▢30 g/2 tbsp spread , isolated
▢300 g/10 oz little stripped prawns/shrimp, crude (Note 1)
▢3 garlic cloves , minced
▢1/4 cup/65 ml dry white wine (Note 2 for sub)
▢1 cup/250 ml weighty/thickened cream (Note 3)
▢1/2 cup/125 ml chicken stock (or fish or vegetable stock), ideally low sodium
▢3/4 cup/50 g finely ground parmesan cheddar (1.5 oz) (newly ground) (Note 4)
▢2 tbsp finely cleaved parsley
▢Dark pepper
▢Parmesan , for serving

Guidelines
Bring to heat up an enormous pot of water. Add pasta and cook per parcel Short 1 moment. (Note 5).
Not long prior to depleting, scoop out 1 cup of pasta cooking water and put away. Channel pasta.
In the mean time, liquefy 1 tbsp of margarine in a huge non stick skillet over medium high intensity. Add prawns and cook for 1 1/2 minutes on each side until just cooked through. Eliminate prawns.
In a similar skillet, add 1 tbsp spread. Once dissolved, add garlic. Mix for 20 seconds until fragrant.
Add wine and mix. Stew for 2 minutes until wine generally decreases (see video).
Add cream, stock and parmesan. Mix until the parmesan is softened, then pass on to stew for 1 1/2 minutes until it thickens marginally (will thicken more in subsequent stage).
Add prawns, mix, then, at that point, add pasta in addition to around 1/4 cup of held pasta water. Throw pasta (still on oven) and the sauce will thicken in around 30 - 45 seconds and begin sticking to the pasta.
Take it off the oven before the sauce is basically as thick as you need - it will thicken more.

Sprinkle with the vast majority of the parsley and dark pepper, really look at salt (I don't require more). Throw again until the sauce consistency is as you would prefer. Add a little sprinkle of pasta water in the event that it gets too gluggy.
Serve right away, embellished with outstanding parsley and parmesan whenever wanted.

Recipe Notes:
1. PRAWN/SHRIMP SIZE: I favor involving little ones for pasta since it scatters better in pasta. Assuming you utilize medium or enormous prawns, I propose utilizing 400g/14 oz. For goliath ones, you might wish to slice down the middle longwise, or even into pieces.
FROZEN PRAWNS: I ordinarily make this with frozen stripped prawns since it's an aggravation to strip little prawns. Defrost completely and wipe off with paper towel prior to cooking (in any case they simply kind of braise in leftover water that drains).
TIP: Hold the defrosting fluid and utilize that as a component of the stock expected in this recipe. It resembles a free fish stock!

2. WINE: Any dry white is fine, I use sauv blanc. Sweet, truly fruity ones like numerous rieslings aren't exactly appropriate. Can sub with chicken or veg stock.
3. CREAM: This recipe will turn out great with any full fat cream, however the sauce thickens quicker/better with weighty/thickened cream. On the off chance that you utilize light cream, the sauce will be more slender however it will in any case work.
4. PARMESAN: Should utilize newly ground! Locally acquired won't liquefy without a hitch. On the off chance that you measure by cup instead of weight, make certain to tap the cup as you grind in light of the fact that the volume is more prominent for example it's fleecy, so in the event that you don't tap, 40g parmesan is presumably well more than 1 cup!
5. Lessen the cooking time since we wrap up cooking the pasta in the sauce (key stage for this recipe).