Wednesday 24 April 2013

Prawn, samphire and roasted pepper pasta salad

A summertime supper dish. I love samphire (or 'Hampshire', as predictive text prefers) with fish, with all its salty, mineral flavours. You can eat it raw, but it's also really nice just quickly steamed.

Serves two

Handful of samphire
200g raw prawns
A roasted sweet red pepper, cut into chunks
Cherry tomatoes, halved
Pasta, cooked and cooled
Handful of rocket

For the dressing:
Juice of half a lemon, olive oil, sea salt

Steam the samphire and prawns together for just a few minutes, until the prawns are done. Meanwhile, toss all the other ingredients together with half the dressing. When the prawns and samphire are done, add them to the dish and drizzle over the rest of the dressing.

Tuesday 23 April 2013

New look, new format!

I've redesigned the Raw Prawn a bit. Got a posh new header thing, courtesy of Stewart Harris Designs.
And I'm going to post recipes in a less formal way - that way I can post stuff even if I can't remember what quantities I used (I never measure anything unless baking). So I'll post up the general idea of a dish - I'm sure you can work it out...