Spaghetti con i Gamberi alla Marinara

Name: Spaghetti con i Gamberi alla Marinara (Spaghetti with prawns in tomato sauce)
Yield: Serves 4-5
Cuisine: Italian
Ingredients: salt and freshly ground black pepper; fresh mint or chives, chopped finely; 8 oz (225 g) shelled cooked prawns; 12 oz (350 g) spaghetti; ½ pint (300 ml) Salsa Piccante col Pomodoro; Salsa Piccante col Pomodoro

Spaghetti with prawns in tomato sauce

Preparation info

Serves
4-5

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Pasta Italian Style

By Patricia Lousada

Published 1991

About

You could think of this as a lively Italian cousin to the English prawn cocktail. I make it as a first course-it’s a stimulating start to a party meal and always popular.

Ingredients

Basic recipe

Salsa Piccante col Pomodoro

Europe
Italy
Fish course
Pescatarian
Mediterranean

Method

First make the spicy tomato sauce. Then, cook the pasta ‘al dente’. When it is nearly cooked, add the prawns to the tomato sauce and heat together just long enough to make the prawns hot. Taste for seasoning.

Drain the pasta and put in a warmed serving bowl (do not overdrain - there should be some water left in it). Pour the sauce over and sprinkle with the fresh herbs. Serve immediatel