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CREAMY SUNDRIED TOMATO & PRAWN PASTA

RECIPE DEVELOPED FOR GRANT BURGE WINES

400g your favourite short pasta*
800g fresh medium green prawns*, peeled, tails on, deveined
Olive oil
Sea salt

Sauce
2 tbs unsalted butter
4 cloves garlic
1/2 cup sundried tomatoes, roughly chopped
1 tbs Dijon mustard
2 cup pouring cream
1 cup, fresh basil, roughly chopped
Sea salt and pepper, to taste
Parmesan cheese, finely grated, to serve

Step 1. Start by cooking pasta in a large pot of salted boiling water. This whole dish should come together in the time it takes to cook the pasta.

Step 2. Heat a large saute pan over high heat, toss prawns through some oil and season well with sea salt, cook prawns searing each side quickly until colour changes, you do not need to cook all the way through, this will be done when finishing the dish. Remove from pan and reduce heat to medium.

Step 3. Add butter and garlic and cook until fragrant. Next, the sundried tomatoes, mustard, mix well to combine, pour over cream and reduce slightly. Finally add in the prawns and basil and toss together.

Step 4. For pasta, reserve some pasta water and then drain, add into pan with prawns and toss through along with sea salt, pepper and parmesan, adding pasta water if needed to loosen.

CAMPERVAN CURRY

Recipe developed for Apollo Campervans

This is a simple and delicious prawn curry that I cooked up in the Apollo Camper Van. Super tasty and delicious took cook in my kitchen on wheels! Loved it. Check out the video to see how amazing the view was! Cook it in your camper van, cook it in your kitchen, it is such a good recipe.

Prep 00:10

Cook 00:15

Serves 2

Easy

Ingredients

1 tbs neutral oil
1 x small brown onion, diced
4 x cloves garlic, crushed and chopped
3 x sprigs curry leaf, leaves only
2 tbs curry powder (I used Love my Earth Fish Masala)
1 tbs brown mustard seeds
Sea salt, to taste
1 (400ml) can coconut milk
400g peel green prawns
White rice, cooked to your liking
Coriander, to garnish

Method

Step 1. Heat a large skillet or saucepan over medium heat. Add oil and onion, cook for 2-3mins until onion begins to soften. Next add garlic and curry leaf, stir well to combine. Once fragrant, add curry powder and mustard seeds, and toast for a further 1-2mins.

Step 2. Add coconut milk and stir, incorporating all the curry powder and spices into the mix, the coconut milk should change colour and bring to a gentle simmer. Add prawns and cook until done to your liking. *note, you may need to add a little water to the mix if it becomes too thick.

Step 3. Serve curry over rice and garnish with coriander. Enjoy.

FISH PIE

RECIPE FROM COOKED LIVE ON MY FACEBOOK PAGE HERE…

SERVES: 4

PREP 00:25

COOK 00:20

EASY

WHAT'S IN IT?

2 tbs Cobram Estate Extra Virgin Olive Oil

1 leek, washed well and finely sliced

2 cloves garlic, crushed 

1 stick celery, finely sliced

1 bay leaf

Sea salt and pepper, to taste

1/2 cup white wine

80g butter

1/2 cup flour

2 cups milk

2 cups fish stock

1/4 cup dill fronds, finely chopped

1/4 cup parsley, finely chopped

Zest, 1 lemon

5 whole green prawns, peeled*, deveined, cut in half

300g snapper fillets, cut into 3cm pieces (you can use any firm white flesh fish) 

1 1/2 cups frozen peas

1-2 sheet puff pastry (enough to cover your pie dish)

1 egg, beaten

PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER: 

Step 1. Preheat oven to 175C. Warm fish stock in a small pot over low heat. Heat a large saucepan over medium high heat and saute leek, garlic, celery and bay leaf in olive oil until leek softens and all becomes aromatic. Season well with salt and pepper and deglaze with white wine. Cook until wine has almost evaporated. 

Step 2. Remove the bay leaf, melt butter and slowly add in flour and stir well to combine, cook flour out for 2-3mins over low heat. Slowly begin adding milk to butter and flour mix stirring well so there are no lumps, when all milk is added ladle in fish stock continuing to stir until sauce thickens. 

Step 3. Add herbs, lemon zest, seafood and frozen peas and gently stir through sauce. Once combined, pour into your pie dish and cover with puff pastry, brushing with egg wash and pushing down around edges of dish with fork. 

Step 4. Bake for 15-20mins or until pastry is puffed and golden brown. 

Recipe notes and tips: 

* While pie is resting my fav thing to do is bake another sheet of puff pasty so you have extra crunchy goodness!


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