Easy Prawn and Rocket Spaghetti

Quick, simple and delicious, this Easy Prawn and Rocket Spaghetti is the perfect meal to make when time is short, but you still want to eat well. This recipe tastes like something you'd get from a really good Italian restaurant and yet it takes just 15 minutes from start to finish!

📝 Ingredients

• 300 g spaghetti
• 2 cloves garlic (finely sliced)
• 1 tablespoon olive oil
• 1/2 teaspoon dried chilli flakes ((or more if you like things hot!))
• 450 g raw peeled jumbo king prawns ((defrost first, if frozen))
• 100 ml white wine
• 150 g passata
• Salt and pepper (to taste)
• 1 lemon (zest and juice)
• 60 g rocket (arugula)

👨‍🍳 Instructions

1. 1First, cook the spaghetti according to the packet instructions / your own preferences.
2. 2While the spaghetti is cooking, peel and finely slice the 2 garlic cloves. Put the olive oil into a wide and reasonably deep saucepan, together with the garlic and dried chillies and fry on a very low heat for 2 minutes. Do not allow the garlic to burn!
3. 3Add the raw prawns and fry for a further 2 minutes turning once to ensure they go pink on both sides. (See Note 1.)
4. 4Add the wine and turn up the heat. Allow to bubble for 1 minute, then add the passata and some salt and pepper and bubble away for 2 more minutes.
5. 5Add the juice of half a lemon (having first zested the lemon - it’s nigh on impossible to do afterwards!) and turn the heat off.
6. 6Check the spaghetti. It should be just about done by now. Drain and add to the sauce and mix together.
7. 7Finally add a good handful of rocket (arugula) to the spaghetti and mix again. Serve with a handful of rocket on top as a garnish and a sprinkle of lemon zest.