Lemongrass and chilli prawns with avocado bean salsa

  • Portion size: Serves 4
  • Hands-on time 20 min, plus chilling
  • Difficulty: easy

Combine spicy prawns with an avocado and butterbean salsa for a speedy midweek meal or summer starter that’s on the table in twenty minutes.

You might also love our colourful tuna poke bowls, with chunks of creamy avocado.

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Ingredients

  • 1kg frozen peeled sustainable king prawns, defrosted
  • 1 lemongrass stalk, finely chopped
  • 1 small red chilli, deseeded and finely chopped
  • 1 large garlic clove, crushed
  • 2 tbsp olive oil
  • Finely grated zest 2 limes, plus extra wedges to serve

For the avocado and bean salsa

  • 2 ripe avocados
  • 2 x 400g tins butter beans, drained and rinsed
  • 2 tsp chilli flakes
  • Large bunch fresh coriander, leaves picked and roughly chopped, a little set aside to serve
  • Juice 2 limes

 

To serve

  • Flatbreads and lime wedges
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Method

  1. Put all the ingredients for the prawns into a mixing bowl, season with pepper, then gently mix until well combined. Cover the bowl with cling film and chill for 20 minutes.
  2. In a medium bowl, roughly mash the avocados, then stir in all the remaining salsa ingredients and season well.
  3. Heat a large frying pan over a high heat. Season the prawns with salt, then tip them and their marinade into the pan and fry for 2-3 minutes until pink and cooked through. Serve with the salsa with a little coriander sprinkled over, flatbreads and lime wedges to squeeze over.
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Nutrition

  • 492kcals Calories
  • 22g (4.3g saturated) Fat
  • 49.9g Protein
  • 17.4g (2.2g sugars) Carbs
  • 12g Fibre
  • 4.2g Salt
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