Fusilli With Prawns & Tomato Basil Cream Sauce

Prawns and pasta are a great combination when mixed in a rich creamy sauce. This dish certainly ticks those boxes and can be prepared and completed in around 30 minutes. The end result is a meal that will have you hoping there is enough for seconds. The prawns are initially oven cooked before being added with the cooked fusilli pasta to a rich creamy sauce. The sauce is a great blend of butter, garlic, cream, basil and parmesan. Additionally, sun-dried tomatoes and baby spinach are added. The mixture is simmered to blend all the flavours and provide an amazing prawn & pasta meal.

Ingredients:
• 600 g Prawns peeled, de-veined & uncooked
• 3 cups Fusilli Pasta small spirals
• 1 tbsp Olive Oil
• Salt to season
• Pepper to season

Tomato Basil Cream Sauce
• 60 g Butter
• 4 cloves Garlic crushed
• 2 tbsp Plain Flour
• 1 cup Chicken Stock use stock cube
• 1 tsp Ground Basil
• 3/4 cup Thickened Cream
• 1/3 cup Sun-Dried Tomatoes diced
• 1/4 cup Parmesan cheese grated
• 3 cups Baby Spinach

Instructions:
1. Pre-heat fan forced oven to 200°C (390°F).
2. Cook fusilli pasta per packet directions. Drain water from saucepan and set aside.
3. Place prawns on a large baking tray lined with baking paper.
4. Pour 1 tbsp olive oil over the prawns.
5. Sprinkle with salt and pepper and use your hands to coat prawns with oil, salt and pepper.
6. Cook in oven for about 8 minutes or until prawns are pink and cooked through. Remove from oven and set aside.

Tomato Basil Cream Sauce
1. Add butter to a large frying pan over medium heat and melt.
2. Add garlic and cook for about 30 - 60 seconds.
3. Add plain flour and stir to mix through. Cook for about 60 seconds while continuing to stir.
4. Add chicken stock and ground basil and continue stirring for about 2 minutes until fully combined.
5. Add thickened cream, sun-dried tomatoes and parmesan and continue stirring for about 2 minutes until sauce thickens.
6. Add spinach and continue stirring until fully wilted. About 2 minutes.
7. Add prawns and pasta and stir to mix through and fully coat with sauce.
8. Remove from heat and serve. Optionally, sprinkle with additional parmesan.

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Fusilli With Prawns & Tomato Basil Cream Sauce

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