Recipe: Prawn Pesto Pasta

An easy prawn pasta dish, with a home made pesto for you to try. Give this one a go if you like rich flavours.

Prawn Pesto Pasta

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Author: Rachel Aust

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Ingredients US Metric

Pesto

• 1/2 cup pistachios
• 1/2 to 1 bulb of garlic
• 1/2 bunch of fresh basil
• Handful of fresh parsley
• Handful of fresh mint
• Pinch of salt
• Pinch of pepper
• 3tbsp extra virgin olive oil
• Juice of 1/2 a lemon

Pasta

• 400g fresh peeled and cooked prawns (tails on)
• 200g (7oz) pasta (I used this GF black chia one)
• 40g shaved parmesan

Instructions

1. To create the pesto place all pesto ingredients into a blender or NutriBullet and blend until mixed well, place in the fridge until the rest of the dish is ready
2. Preheat water and cook pasta for 8-10 minutes
3. While pasta is cooking heat the prawns on a frying pan
4. Remove hot prawns from pan and stir pesto through evenly
5. Serve with pasta and small amount of shaved parmesan on top

Nutrition Facts

Calories

574

Fat (grams)

26.1 g

Sat. Fat (grams)

3.94 g

Carbs (grams)

48.7 g

Fiber (grams)

4.08 g

Net carbs

27.29

Protein (grams)

34 g

Sodium (milligrams)

340.46 mg

Cholesterol (grams)

11.24 g

The nutritional labels are a product of online calculators such as Lifesum. Even though I try to provide accurate nutritional information to the best of my ability, these figures should still be considered estimates.

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