Garlic prawn pasta

What you need

• ·180g cooked king prawns
• ·100g wholewheat pasta
• ·150g cherry tomatoes
• ·12g garlic
• ·6g red chillies
• ·14g olive oil
• ·1 lemons
• ·60g baby spinach

Method

1. 1Pasta on. Keep a mug of the water before you drain it — this is the whole sauce.
2. 2Garlic and chilli sliced thin into the oil on a LOW heat for 2 minutes. Browned garlic is bitter and you cannot take it back out.
3. 3Halved tomatoes in, pressed with a spoon until they collapse, 4 minutes.
4. 4Prawns for 90 seconds only. They are already cooked; longer makes them squeak.
5. 5Pasta in with a good splash of the water, tossed hard until the sauce goes glossy and clings. Spinach and lemon off the heat.

The starchy water is what turns oil and tomato into a sauce. Tip it all down the sink and you get oily pasta.

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