It's Paleo AND gluten free!
I love most prawn recipes but Chilli Prawn Linguini has to be one of the most delicious and satisfying dishes going. And it’s so easy!! Within the time it’s taken you to cook your pasta, it’s ready. It’s what I call a “real” 15-minute meal. Not one of those ones that require 30 minutes of prep before 15 minutes of cooking!
The other nice thing about this dish is the chilli prawns are really versatile. I love ‘em with pasta, but you could equally have them on their own, tapas style, or with rice (I haven’t tried but I recon you could!) and I bet they’d be delish over some mashed sweet potato.
But what of the Paleo, gluten free bit I hear you cry?! Well, today I’m going to show you how to do it with courgette linguini. I know it sounds wrong but stick with me because this is one mother freaking awesome (as in big!) lunch for one, amazing hangover grub and it’s special enough to really impress your friends as a dinner party starter.
{What’s a dinner party again? Oh yes, something we will do more of once we’re in our new lovely house!!}
This gourmet comfort food is a totally healthy winner!
Prawn Recipes: Chilli Prawn Linguini
Serves 1 hungry person or 2 not as hungry people (I’d add more prawns if there is more than just you though – aim for 150g each minimum!)
Ingredients
• 200g prawns
• 2 cloves garlic
• 1 red chilli
• a large handful of flat leaf parsley
• freshly grated parmesan (about 2 tblsp but the more the merrier really)
• glug of olive oil
• 1 or 2 courgettes (and Julienne peeler)
• lemon, salt and pepper to season
1. Put your best frying pan on a low heat with a generous helping of olive oil. Then slice the chilli and garlic. You could also mince the garlic but I’m a bit lazy so prefer to slice.
2. Pop the sliced garlic and chilli into the pan and mix with a wooden spoon to give the garlic and chilli a nice coating of oil.
3. Roughly chop your parsley and add this to the pan, again stirring to coat it in oil.
4. Leave that to do its thing while you prep the courgette linguini…
For this you need a contraption called a Julienne peeler and you literally peel the whole courgette with this thing. It’s an incredibly satisfying process, but don’t enjoy it too much as those blades are sharp! You can also use a spiriliser but, as my best mate, Alex, put it, they’re about 5 times the price and take up loads of room on your counter. Frugal all the way!
5. Season the courgette linguini with salt, pepper and lemon juice. You could steam them for a minute or two, but I didn’t bother.
6. Then marvel about the fact that it’s as flexible as linguini!
7. Next you want to check back on your pan – everything should be cooking nice and slowly. Give a final stir then grab your prawns. Now, I’m a huge fan of prawns so I find the portion size you get in a single tub is pretty lame at around 200g. If I was making this for me and Mike I’d be really tempted to use 2 packs! These are delicious jumbo tiger prawns from the freezer section in Sainsbos, and comes in packs weighing 225g. I have defrosted them first.
8. Add your prawns to the pan and stir them in.
9. It doesn’t take long to cook a prawn so don’t over do it or you’ll ruin them!
Prawns kind of need an individual approach towards the end, so plenty of stirring but inspect every prawn, you’re looking out for any little blue sections, like in the picture, and be sure to flip them over.
10. Add the Parmesan to the pan and stir.
11. Once you’re happy that all the prawns are cooked through and this beautiful pinky colour, you are ready!
12. Pour onto your bed of courgette linguini, and season with more lemon juice, salt and pepper, and loads more parmesan and enjoy!
You. Are. Welcome!
Do you have your favourite prawn recipes?! And what do you think of this courgette linguini?
If you’re a fan already, please do leave your tips and ideas for different recipes…particularly prawn recipes! I can’t seem to get enough at the moment!
I love that this is gluten free! And healthy! Think I will be adding it to my recipie ideas for my health kick meal plan! Thank xx
This looks lovely. Hubby won’t eat anything fishy and so we never have prawns sadly x
This looks completely scrumptious. I am loving all the different things you can do with a corgette, it really does taste different according to how to cook it!
Oh Yummy, I love prawns and are trying to find alternatives to pasta all the time. Thank you *I’m forwarding this to my friend who’s also doing ‘clean’ eating as this would be perfect for her)
Chilli prawn linguini is a massive favourite in our house. It’s so quick and tasty. I like to add a few halved cherry tomatoes into the pan as well, makes it a little bit more saucy.
I’m so trying this next time I’m cooking for just me! I love the idea of courgette linguine. Perfect for a treat when I’m trying to eat healthily xx
Oh this looks very yummy. I adore prawns. Gorgeous pictures too! xx
That sounds really delicious, right up my street though I think I’d quickly blanch the courgettes just to get them hot through. I’m pinning this one, thanks! #TastyTuesdays
Oooh I love prawn linguine using pasta but this version looks great. I had thought I’d need to invest in one of those spiriliser things to do ‘coodles’ and that was never going to happen but I’ll have a go with a julienne peeler. The recipe looks filling but in a super healthy way!
Oh my days, this looks amazing. I adore courgettes and could eat them every night. I deffo need one of those julienne peelers! #tastytuesdays
Love all of these prawn recipes! I’ve never made prawn linguine before but it looks very simple #TastyTuesday
That looks delicious! Maybe I should get my hands on the julienne peeler!
do the prawns heat the linguine up?!
Yes! Although mine didn’t because I took so long to take the photos, Laura 😉 Some one over on the FB page said she tried it and popped the courgette in the pan at the end – bloody genius idea as it will then take on some of the sauce left in the pan as well as warming up!
BTW it was delicious cold too – kind of refreshing, so I recon it’ll be an amazing summer salad option. Bring on summer!!! xx
Its not good for me to ear and look at these pics this early. Now I’m going to be thinking about food all day. This one is a def must-have! Thanks 🙂
This looks amazing yet quite easy. Definitely one for the dinner parties 🙂 x
I’ve had to pin this on my Shrimp & Prawn board! My son is fanatical about prawns – loves them – AND this works for me as I don’t east pasta. So it’s a win, win recipe!
That sounds really yummy and love the idea of using courgette linguini – will have to give this a try! 🙂
This will be perfect for when we hopefully have a glut of courgettes later in the year.
That looks gorgeous, I’m not a fan of prawns though (I’m such a picky weirdo) but I’ve been meaning to give the courgette noodles a go for ages!
This looks delicious. Amazingly my 5 year old is a prawn obsessive so definitely making this for her.
This is right up my street! I have been looking for a julienne peeler for ages to make courgette noodles so will make it my goal to get one this weekend – this seriously looks amazing #thelist
Looks yummy huni nom nom nom xxxx
Yum Hannah this looks tasty and really healthy. I’m off gluten at the moment too and I’ve been struggling a bit as I miss pasta. I’d forgotten about this corgette version. My sister made it for me once with spag bol and it was lovely. I shall give it a whirl!
This has made me hungry…roll on teatime.
xx
I’m sold!!! I keep hearing about the spiriliser but didn’t realise you could get the same (or similar) effect with a posh peeler! You clever girl you.
Will be trying this out very soon. I reckon it’ll be a very nice blogger lunch 😉 X
P.S Your pics look awesome – I reckon you might have found a niche here darling #thelist
I am not a fan of prawns but this looks like it would be lovely, I might have to cook it for my husband as he likes prawns but doesn’t get to eat them as much as he would like !
Firstly your pictures are WOW-I mean boom, get a new food blog running and write a book wow and this is so up my street I’m actually hungry and about to cook this at 23.27pm! You rock, please blog more recipes and so amazing to have you link up. Love you. That is all x
Pinned it on my low carb board too x
Hannah your pictures are amazing! I don’t eat prawns but will have to give this a go with a different main ingredient xx #TheList
This looks amazing! I’m not an amazing cook but I will have to try this as my other half would love me forever haha x
Ooh what a great idea!! I do a similar recipe with pasta but courgettes would make a great alternative. To be honest, we eat way too much pasta.
#thelist xx
Looks very yummy, have you tried making cauliflower rice as a carb replacement. I have made it twice now and it’s lovely.
This was so quick to make and delicious! Forgot to take a photo as couldn’t wait to tuck in but will do next time. Many thanks for sharing!