RIKOLA RECIPES

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King Prawn & chorizo pasta

with Brown Rice Casarecce, Sundried Tomato & Spinach

RIKOLA RATING

5 Star

CHILLI RATING

1 Chilli

Ingredients

Before you start

Bring a medium saucepan filled with salted water to the boil. Pull out a large frying pan, a grater, a measuring jug & a sieve. Wash produce.

Ingredients

(Serves 2, halve ingredients for 1)

  • 200g hot cooking chorizo (use half) – Looks like a string of sausages
  • 120g brown rice casarecce pasta
  • 110g baby Plum tomatoes
  • 1 unwaxed lemon
  • 2 garlic cloves
  • 80g baby spinach
  • 200g king prawns (crustaceans)
  • 2 tbsp sundried tomato paste

Cooking method

Fry the chorizo

  • Slice each chorizo in half, then cut each half into 3 half-moons
  • Heat the large frying pan on medium-high heat.
    Once hot, add the chorizo and fry for 5 mins, stirring frequently

Cook the pasta & finish the prep

  • Add the casarecceto the saucepan and boil for 8-9 mins, until cooked. Reserve 100ml pasta water (50ml for l person), then drain
  • Meanwhile, halve the tomatoes. Zest and quarter the lemon. Finely chop or crush the garlic. Rinse the spinach. Drain the prawns

Build the flavour

  • Add the tomatoes, garlic, prawns and sundried tomato paste to the pan and fry for 2 mins
  • Add the reserved pasta water and bring to the boil, then simmer on medium-high heat for 7 mins, until the prawns are pink and cooked through
  • In the final minute, stir the spinach into the sauce and cook until wilted

Plate up

  • Check your prawns are cooked through; they should be opaque, firm and steaming hot
  • Stir the pasta and the juice from half the lemon (or to taste) into the sauce. Season with salt and pepper
  • Share the pasta between bowls. Sprinkle with the lemon zest to finish. Garnish with the remaining lemon wedges, for squeezing over