How to cook spaghetti with red prawns
Watch the video of the detailed procedure for cooking this refined and particular first fish dish
Spaghetti with red prawns is a traditional first course of Italian cuisine, one of those considered refined and suitable for occasions such as Christmas Eve, an important lunch for an event or a dinner with friends like other fish first courses such as spaghetti with clams. The difficulty of this refined fish first course lies in cleaning the prawns from which a classic fumet is prepared and then added to the dishes in the form of tartare. It is therefore important that the prawns have been blast chilled considering that some of them will be eaten raw.
INGREDIENTS FOR 4 PEOPLE of spaghetti with red prawns:
- 500 g of red prawns
- 400g of spaghetti
For the comic
- 3 cherry tomatoes
- Half a carrot
- 1 onion
- Half a celery stalk
- 2 small stalks of parsley
For the sauté
- A clove of garlic
- 1 chili pepper
- 1 tablespoon of tomato paste
- 40 ml of white wine
- Parsley
- Zest of 1 lemon
- 6-7 tablespoons of extra virgin olive oil
- 700 ml of ice water
- salt
The red prawn is the prawn considered the most valuable and therefore expensive. The bigger it is, the more it costs. we paid 40 euros per kg for the red prawns you see in our video recipe for spaghetti with red prawns, so since it’s a recipe for 4, it will cost you 5 euros each.
If you liked our recipe for spaghetti with red prawns, also try the pasta with cod, the linguine with scampi, the risotto alla pescatora and the classic fish sauce.