King Prawns and Spring Vegetables

Name: King Prawns and Spring Vegetables
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 5 min
Total time: 25 min
Yield: Serves 6
Ingredients: salt and pepper; 1 tablespoon pastis (aniseed flavoured liqueur); 2 garlic cloves; 3 tablespoons soy sauce; juice of one lemon; 15 g (½ oz/1 tablespoon) butter; 6 baby carrots; 150 g (5½ oz) podded broad beans; 12 spears of green asparagus; 150 g (5½ oz) green beans; 18 beautiful king prawns (jumbo shrimp); 150 g (5½ oz) snow peas (mangetouts)

Preparation info

Serves
6

Difficulty
Medium
Ready in
25 min

Appears in

Stéphane Reynaud's Barbecue

By Stéphane Reynaud

Published 2012

About

With friends who didn’t want to come – ‘it’s spring, we’re watching what we eat’. I have just what you need.

Ingredients

18 beautiful king prawns (jumbo shrimp)
150 g (5½ oz) snow peas (mangetouts)

Fish course
Pescatarian
Spring

Method

Peel and devein the prawns.

For the marinade, peel and crush the garlic, mix with the lemon juice, soy sauce and pastis. Drizzle the prawns with this marinade. Reserve a little for deglazing.

Poach all the vegetables in boiling water and refresh them immediately. Melt the butter on the hotplate, add all of the vegetables, cook them 5 minutes and deglaze with the reserved prawn m