Taste of Amalfi - Rina's Lemon and Shrimp Pasta
Ciao Tutti!
In my travel section, I have written about excellent Rina and her dinners in Amalfi at her stunning BnB. Rina also has a cookbook called 'Quando mi sono caduti i limoni in testa'; (When Lemons Fell on My Head), and she kindly agreed to let me share the recipe for her most famous lemon and shrimp pasta.
Here it is
Amalfitan Lemon Pasta
serves 4
Ingredients
Lemons- 2 (cut them in half and juice them)
Small Prawns, peeled and cleaned - 400g
Linguine/ Scialatielli/ Trofie/ Spaghetti - 200gm
Single Cream - 200ml
Oil - 50ml
Butter - 50gm
Garlic - 1 clove
White Wine - 50 ml (preferably dry)
Salt - to taste
Method
Boil the pasta 'dente', and start making the sauce simultaneously while it is boiling.
Heat butter and oil in a pan and add a clove of garlic.
When the garlic turns golden brown, remove it and add the prawns.
Give them a quick stir, and add salt and wine. Cook till the wine evaporates.
Add Cream and the lemon juice and stir well on low heat so the cream doesn't split.
Bring the boiled and drained pasta to the pan and toss it in the sauce.
Check for seasoning and switch off.
Rina serves her pasta in lemon shells, but massive lemons are hard to find in
supermarkets here, so I recommend zesting some lemons as a garnish.
Vegetarians can replace prawns with some courgettes.
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