Heavenly avocado cream pasta with spicy tiger prawns

Ready for your new favourite pasta recipe?! This heavenly avocado cream pasta with spicy tiger prawns will definitely make it into your top 10 summer recipes. It has all your favourite ingredients. This pasta recipe is wonderful for summer night dinners and the leftovers – if there are any – make a perfect office lunch and will for sure make your colleagues jealous!

The recipe is so simple and will be ready within 30 minutes. Make sure you buy organic and raw tiger prawns and de-vein them before cooking. If you like you can add cooked sugar snaps or raw shaved green asparagus to the pasta. I usually use bavette pasta instead of normal spaghetti because the avocado cream sticks better to this pasta shape.

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heavenly avocado cream pasta with spicy tiger prawns

Delish avocado and feta cream pasta with spicy tiger prawns

Servings: 2 people
Ingredients
  • 200 gram bavette (pasta)
  • 250 gram raw tiger prawns
  • 100 gram feta
  • 50 gram sour cream
  • 1 bunch coriander
  • 1 spicy chili (piri piri, habanero)
  • 1 lime
  • 1 ripe avocado
  • 3 tbsp olive oil
  • salt
  • pepper
  • 1 cm ginger
Instructions
  1. Cook the bavette al dente according to package instruction. 

  2. For the creamy avocado: Mix avocado, lime juice and sour cream with a blender until smooth. Break apart feta and stir into avocado cream. Season to taste with salt and pepper and put aside.

  3. Chop the chili and trim cut the ginger into small squares. Prepare the tiger prawns and heat up some olive oil in a large pan. Add the chili and ginger and after about 2 minutes add the tiger prawns. Sear them for about 3 minutes and then take them out and put aside.  

  4. Mix the bavette with the avocado cream until the pasta is fully coated. Divide the pasta between your plates, add the tiger prawns and sprinkle with coriander leaves and drizzle some olive oil over it. Enjoy!

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