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: juice of one lemon; salt and pepper; 2 garlic cloves; 18 beautiful king prawns (jumbo shrimp); 150 g (5½ oz) podded broad beans; 15 g (½ oz/1 tablespoon) butter; 150 g (5½ oz) snow peas (mangetouts); 6 baby carrots; 12 spears of green asparagus; 3 tablespoons soy sauce; 150 g (5½ oz) green beans; 1 tablespoon pastis (aniseed flavoured liqueur)

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