Prawns in Pesto and Olive oil Linguine

Craving for that pasta you have seen in a restaurant or seen in your friends social media's post but too lazy to go out from the comfort of your house? Here's my 40 minutes quick cook for busy persons!

Preparation time: 10 minutes

Cooking time: 30 minutes

ingredients: bottled pesto sauce, olive oil, linguine, black pepper

ingredients: finely chopped garlic and onions, sliced button mushrooms, prawns

stir fry garlic, onions and some chilli peppers if you want a little bit spicy

add in the mushrooms and continue to stir fry

prepare your linguine, cook as al dente

add in prawns, stir fry until prawns are completely cooked (change of color from grey to orange); may add in butter for that creamy taste

add in 5-7 teaspoons of pesto sauce and stir fry for another 3 minutes

add in the pasta and mix well to completely coat the linguine

finished product

Home made Pesto Spaghetti in 30 minutes

Spanish Sardines Pesto Spaghetti

Ingredients: 1 can button mushrooms, 1 bottle pesto, 1 bottle Spanish Sardines and 400 g of of Spaghetti

How to cook?

1. Boil Pasta as per cooking instructions. 
2. Chopped garlic finely and saute it with either the oil from the Spanish sardines or from the instant Pesto sauce.
3. Add button  mushrooms, stir fry for a 1-2 minutes then add the whole bottle of Pesto sauce into the pan. 
4. Add Spanish sardines into the pan and saute for 5-10 minutes. 
5. Season with spices such as salt, pepper or chilli powder. (I only add chili powder as the sauce is tasty already).
6. Sauce is done, pasta may be added and toss together into the pan or may serve separately.

*tips: if you want more seafood: may add shrimps
         if you want it to be creamy: may add 1 can of Campbells Cream of Mushroom

Servings: 6-7

pesto

ˈpɛstəʊ/

noun

1. 1.

   a sauce of crushed basil leaves, pine nuts, garlic, Parmesan cheese, and olive oil, typically served with pasta.

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