Jeremiah Tower’s San Franciscan Prawns

Name: Jeremiah Tower’s San Franciscan Prawns
Yield: Serves 2
Cuisine: United States
Ingredients: 1½ glasses white wine; 1 tablespoon chopped parsley; Pinch of powdered saffron; Couple of small sprigs rosemary; Couple of small sprigs thyme; Butter; Salt and freshly ground pepper; 2 tablespoons soured cream; 4-5 oz (110-150 g) broad beans, cooked and peeled; 2 artichoke hearts, cooked and quartered; 1 teaspoon chopped garlic; 4–6 uncooked Mediterranean prawns

Stars Restaurant, San Francisco

Preparation info

Serves
2

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Floyd's American Pie

By Keith Floyd

Published 1989

About

This being California, we used Hawaiian blue and pink Santa Barbara spot prawns (which are about the size of langoustines), but you can substitute large Mediterranean prawns.

Ingredients

4–6 uncooked Mediterranean prawns
1 teaspoon chopped garlic
Butter
Couple of small sprigs <

Americas
United States
Dinner
Gluten-free

Method

Sauté the prawns and garlic in a little butter in a frying–pan. Add the thyme and rosemary. Remove the prawns from the pan and keep warm. De–glaze the pan with some white wine. Add the chopped parsley, reserving a little to garnish the finished dish. Mix the saffron into the soured cream, stir into the pan juices and season to taste with salt and pepper. Add the cooked beans and artichoke heart