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Cuban Mojo Prawns with Pasta

Richard
Delicious jumbo prawns in a Cuban mojo sauce
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Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 10 minutes
Total Time 25 minutes
Course Main Course
Cuisine 🇨🇺 Cuban
Servings 2
Calories 912 kcal
How Difficult Easy
Suitable for Low Calorie Diet

Ingredients
  

For the Mojo Sauce:

  • 200 ml White Wine
  • 6 cloves Garlic
  • ½ tsp Salt
  • 50 ml Olive Oil
  • 1 Freshly Squeezed Orange and zest
  • 3 Freshly Squeezed Limes and zest
  • 1 tsp Dried Oregano
  • 1 tsp Ground Cumin
  • Pinch Ground Black Pepper

For the Prawns

  • 200 g Dried Linguine
  • 170 g Raw Jumbo Prawns
  • 1 Red Chilli Pepper halved, deseeded and finely sliced
  • 150 g Cherry Tomatoes halved
  • 100 g Asparagus Spears chopped into 1cm pieces
  • 60 ml Single Cream

Instructions
 

To Make the Mojo Sauce:

  • Start by crushing the garlic into a pestle & mortar then pound with the salt until it becomes a paste.
  • Add the oil, orange and lime juice, oregano, cumin and chilli and stir together with a pinch of black pepper.

To Make the Prawns:

  • Put on a large pan of salted water to boil for the linguine.
  • Pour the wine into a saute pan and heat until it has reduced by half. While it is reducing, prepare the vegetables. Once the wine is reduced, remove and put to one side.
  • Add the linguine to the salted boiling water and cook as per packet instructions.
  • Add the mojo sauce to the pan, and once it starts to simmer, add the prawns and cook for 2-3 minutes until they are pink, turning them over halfway.
  • Add the tomatoes and the asparagus and fry for a further 3 minutes. Add the reduced white wine and stir it into the prawn and vegetable sauce.
  • Reduce the heat to low and stir in the cream gently.
  • Drain the pasta reserving 2 tablespoons of the cooking water. Add the pasta to the sauce along with the reserved cooking water and mix well.
  • Serve immediately.

Notes

If you want to give your prawns a bit more heat then don't remove the seeds from the red chilli.

Nutrition

Calories: 912kcalCarbohydrates: 107gProtein: 29gFat: 35gSaturated Fat: 9gFiber: 10gSugar: 15g
Keyword cuban, mojo, prawns
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