Prawn recipes
Prawns are a quick-cooking, versatile seafood with a sweet, succulent flavour – perfect for speedy dinners to smart meals for entertaining. Try them in these crowdpleasing recipes, including fragrant noodle dishes, salads and hearty pasta.
- Simple snacks and light meals: Prawn cocktail sandwiches, giant prawn toast, battered prawns and prawn noodle salad
- Easy dinners: Lemongrass prawn laksa noodles, prawn and harissa pasta, prawn fried rice and taco salad bowl with prawns
- Dinner party ideas: Giant seafood vol-au-vent, prawn cocktail and prawn, chilli and lime soup
If you’ve bought your prawns fresh, discover how to prepare, peel and cook raw prawns. We’ve rounded up our 18 best prawn recipes, too. Seafood lovers – dive in to our scallop recipes next.
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Tapas
Wild garlic gambas pil pil
Sizzling Spanish prawns are given a seasonal spring twist in this gambas pil pil recipe with wild garlic. Try it as a starter or tapas dish.
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Healthy salads
Thai prawn salad (Pla goong)
Juicy prawns are tossed with a lemongrass, and chilli dressing, then served with coriander and crispy shallots in this Thai salad recipe.
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Recipes from restaurants
Prawn toast bao with burnt peach chilli sauce
Julie Lin shares her incredible prawn toast bao recipe. Crispy bao are stuffed with juicy prawns and served with peach hot sauce.
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Stews, casseroles, pot-roasts and slow-roasts
Thai-spiced fish stew
This aromatic Thai fish stew hits the spot on chilly nights. It's packed with prawns and white fish, plus fragrant lemongrass and tamarind.
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Chorizo
Chorizo, prawn and butter bean stew
This simple but hearty chorizo and bean stew recipe from Kate Humble is bound to become a new weeknight favourite. Serve with crusty bread.
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Puff pastry
Giant seafood vol-au-vent
This giant vol-au-vent makes a spectacular centrepiece for New Year's Eve or a festive buffet. Pile it high with prawns, scallops and fish.
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Easy starters
Socca (or farinata) with prawns, chickpeas and peppers
Debora Robertson shares her easy recipe for the Provençal chickpea flatbread, socca. This popular snack is known as farinata in Italy.
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Prawns
Gamberi alla busara (prawns with cherry tomato sauce)
This recipe for prawns with a spicy tomato sauce hails from Italy's Veneto region. Enjoy with crusty bread or as a sauce for pasta.
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Pasta salads
Pink and green prawn and pasta salad
Debora Robertson's verdant pasta salad is crammed with juicy pink prawns. Perfect for a laid-back summer dinner in the garden.
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Prawns
Canarian salted potato and prawn skewers with mojo rojo
These barbecue prawn skewers are inspired by Canarian papas arrugadas (salt-crusted potatoes served with mojo rojo, a fiery pepper dip).
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Kerkennah-style grilled prawns
Grilled prawns are paired with kerkennaise, a spiced tomato sauce from Tunisia, in this delicious summer recipe from chef Ben Tish.
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Peppers
Chinese chicken, prawn and lap cheong stuffed peppers
These Chinese stuffed peppers are packed with a bouncy, fragrant filling of chicken, prawns and nuggets of lap cheong (Cantonese sausage).
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Fried rice
Lap cheong (Chinese sausage) fried rice
Fried rice is the ultimate use-it-up dish. Frying lap cheong sausage before the rice goes in means every grain is coated in its aromatic oils.
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Prawn cocktails
Prawn cocktail platter
Create the ultimate prawn cocktail platter with proper marie rose dip made with homemade mayo, prawns and crisp lettuce leaves.
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Seafood curries
Andi Oliver’s aromatic shrimp curry
Andi Oliver's aromatic shrimp curry comes together in under an hour and serves four. The fragrant broth is packed with succulent prawns.
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Best of the best
Best of the best seafood stew
Rich prawn stock forms the base of this wonderful seafood stew, packed with tomatoes and fennel, and flavoured with tarragon and orange peel.
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