Tapas Recipe: Garlic Prawns

Chef's Armoury garlic prawns

There are as many tapas recipes for garlic prawns as there are days in the year. Here’s one of our favourites …

Garlic Prawns Recipe

• Serves: 2 as a drinking snack
• Preparation time: 3 minutes
• Equipment: a sharp kitchen knife and a cast iron tapas pan
• Cooking time: 5 minutes

Ingredients

• 8 cloves garlic, crushed and chopped
• 8 – 10 green tiger prawns, tail on
• Good quality olive oil
• Passata (Italian tomato simmering sauce)
• A handful of sliced basil
• Salt
• Fresh chilli (optional)

Method

• Put ½ inch oil in your tapas pan along with the garlic.

• Cook over medium/low heat until the garlic softens a little. Make sure the pan isn’t too hot, as you don’t want to brown the garlic.

•  Add prawns and salt. Cook prawns for about a minute on side and turn over.

• After another minute turn up heat and add Passata (add chilli now if you like). Bring to a simmer for one minute.
• Turn off heat, stir through basil and check for seasoning.
• Serve immediately in the pan so the prawns stay hot.

Chef’s tips

• Always de-vein the prawns
• Serve with crusty bread on the side to soak up the sauce
• Try this recipe with scampi instead of prawns