Saffron prawn pasta

Ah, what to cook for Valentine’s day. Well, let me say, this prawn pasta dish is just perfect! Juicy prawns and crayfish, flaky cod, cauliflower and fennel in a saffron white wine broth – paired with a new pasta shape from Le Moulin. It makes a portion for 4, but I usually freeze half the sauce – like that I can enjoy this fantastic dish twice, with only once the work!

Ingredients

500g Le Moulin Casarecce pasta

For the stock:

20 cooked prawns, unpeeled
400ml shellfish stock
80ml white wine
1 good pinch of saffron threats

For the sauce:
40g butter
1 onion
½ fennel bulb
½ tsp fennel seeds
350g cauliflower
100ml white wine
350g cod
150g crayfish
40ml Ricard
100g sour cream
salt and pepper

parsley, to serve

Method

Serves 4 – Prep: 1h

Peel 12 prawns – put the heads and shells in a saucepan and set aside the prawns.

Add the shellfish stock and the white wine to the heads and prawns, bring to the boil and reduce for 6 minutes. Pour through a sieve, crumble in the saffron threads and set aside.

Peel and finely chop the onion. Finely shave the fennel with a mandolin. Cut the cauliflower into ½ cm thick slices.

Melt the butter in a big saucepan and fry the onion with the fennel, fennel seeds and a good pinch of salt for 5 minutes. Add the cauliflower and half the saffron stock, cover and cook over a medium heat for 5 minutes, stirring from time to time.

Cut the cod into 4 cm chunks and put it on top of the vegetables in the saucepan. Pour over the wine and remaining stock, then top off with a bit more water so that the fish is just covered. Cover with a lid and cook for 3 minutes.

After 3 minutes, carefully stir through the crayfish, the shelled and whole prawns and the Ricard. Cook, uncovered, for another 3 minutes.

Remove two ladles of the liquid and put it in a jug. Stir through the sour cream so that it fully melts, then pour back in the saucepan and carefully stir. Adjust the seasoning with salt and pepper. Cover with a lid and off the heat while you cook the pasta.

Cook the Le Moulin Casarecce pasta in boiling salted water for 8-10 minutes. Drain and distribute on 4 deep plates. Top each plate with a few generous ladles of seafood and sauce – you want a lot of sauce for this dish, as it is more of a soupy pasta dish.

Top each dish with 2 unpeeled prawns and sprinkle with chopped parsley before serving.

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