Squid Ink Pasta with Tomato and Prawns is a vibrant and flavorful seafood dish featuring jet-black squid ink pasta tossed in a rich, garlicky tomato sauce.
Prep Time: 10 min
Cook Time: 20 minutes
Serves: 4
Ingredients
350g Fresh Squid Ink Pasta
200g Prawns Cooked and Peeled
Olive Oil
4 Cloves of Garlic
1 tbsp Tomato Paste
200g Cherry Tomatoes
150ml White Wine
1/2 tsp Chilli Flakes
1 Lemon (Juice and Zest)
1tbsp Freshly chopped basil (save extra for a garnish)
50g Butter
Kosher Salt
Black Pepper
Method
- Bring a large pot of water to a boil.
- Pour olive oil into a skillet and heat over medium-high, then add the garlic and cook until browned and fragrant.
- Add tomato paste and cook for about a minute while stirring before adding the cherry tomatoes, white wine, 100ml water, chilli flakes, salt and pepper.
- Let it cook for 5 minutes or until the tomatoes have softened stirring periodically.
- Cook your pasta according to instructions, around 3-5 minutes for fresh pasta. Make sure to save a bit of pasta water before straining.
- While the pasta is cooking, add the prawns to you tomato sauce, cook for 2-3 minutes continuing to stir occasionally.
- Combine the tomato sauce, pasta, pasta water, butter, and lemon and let cook for a further 3 minutes. then add the basil once you have taken it off the heat.
- Serve and garnish with some whole basil.