Tagliatelle prawns in tomato and pepper sauce. A simple delicious recipe made using cooked prawns and blitzed tomatoes and peppers to make a tangy creamless sweet tomato sauce!
When combined with tagliatelle you have a really tasty, quick healthy meal of tagliatelle prawns in tomato and pepper sauce for 4.
All in under one hour!
I came up with the idea of this tagliatelle prawns in tomato and pepper sauce when I was wondering what to do with an abundance of tomatoes and peppers I had left over from various other dishes I’d been making.
Stir fry?
Nah that would seem the obvious choice.
Salad? Eh, no, whilst I love salads, it’s colder here now and I want something warming and comforting.
Hmmm, some kind of sauce?
OK yeah but not just a basic tomato sauce, maybe a bit sweeter than usual….hmmm, sauté everything and chuck it in a food processor with some chilli…oh yes, that's it!
What's more the delicious prawn tagliatelle sauce isn't made with any cream so provided you don't go overboard on the pasta it's nice and healthy!
I used dried tagliatelle for this tagliatelle prawns in tomato and pepper sauce recipe, as I didn’t have time to make my own pasta.
I have made my own fresh tagliatelle with a pasta machine before and also without a pasta machine.
If you have time and want to make your own tagliatelle without a pasta machine then follow the instructions in my tagliatelle with home-made pesto recipe.
Use pre-cook chilled or frozen prawns to keep this tagliatelle prawns recipe nice and simple!
To accompany your creamy garlic tomato prawn tagliatelle I recommend a cold glass of white wine!
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🥘 Ingredients
- Olive Oil
- Onion
- Garlic Cloves
- Ground Coriander
- Red Bell Pepper
- Green Bell Pepper
- Red Chilli
- Tomatoes
- Fresh Basil
- Tomato Paste
- Prawns
- Tagliatelle
- Salt and Freshly Ground Black Pepper
- Fresh Parsley / Coriander
- Grated Parmesan
See recipe card for quantities.
🔪 Instructions
Detailed instructions are in the recipe card below. But here is a quick step by step guide of how to make this creamy tomato prawn tagliatelle recipe:
Step 1
- Heat olive oil. Sauté onion and garlic.
Step 2
- Add ground coriander, chopped peppers and red chilli. Sauté.
Step 3
- Add chopped tomatoes and basil leaves and sauté all vegetables until completely soft.
Step 4
- Blend all the vegetables together into a sauce. Add back to pan along with tomato paste and season to taste.
Step 5
- Add prawns to creamy tomato pepper sauce and cook through.
Step 6
- Whilst prawns are cooking in sauce. According to packet instructions cook the tagliatelle in boiling water until al dente.
Step 7
- Serve prawn and pepper pasta garnished with chosen chopped herbs and parmesan cheese.
📖 Substitutions
- Olive Oil - you could use low calorie spray oil or vegetable oil.
- Onion
- Garlic Cloves
- Ground Coriander
- Red Bell Pepper
- Green Bell Pepper
- Red Chilli - you could use chilli powder instead.
- Tomatoes - you could use a tin of chopped tomatoes instead. Or tomato passata.
- Fresh Basil
- Tomato Paste
- Prawns
- Tagliatelle - you could use fettuccine or other kind of long strand pasta.
- Salt and Freshly Ground Black Pepper
- Fresh Parsley / Coriander - optional
- Grated Parmesan - optional
🍽 Equipment
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Equipment
This is the set of pans I recommend for cooking with.
The set includes 16, 18, 20 cm saucepans, 1 x 14 cm milk pan and 1 x 24 cm fry pan.
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💭 FAQ's
How Many Tagliatelle Nests Per Person?
About 4 nests. 75g tagliatelle per person.
Is This Prawn Tagliatelle Sauce Healthy?
Yes because unlike other popular recipes it isn't made with any cream and is tomato based.
What Are The Best Prawns To Use For This Chilli Prawn Tagliatelle?
Use pre-cooked chilled or frozen cooked prawns. This keeps it nice and simple!
Can The Prawn Tagliatelle Sauce Be Frozen?
Yes the sauce can be frozen.
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📋 Tagliatelle Prawns in Tomato and Pepper Sauce Recipe
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Ingredients
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1 medium sized onion diced
- 6 cloves garlic chopped finely
- ½ teaspoon ground coriander
- 1 red pepper chopped
- 1 green pepper chopped
- 1 de-seeded chopped red chilli
- 4 ripe tomatoes chopped
- 1 tablespoon fresh basil leaves chopped
- 4 tablespoon tomato paste
- 180 g pre-cooked chilled / frozen prawns
- 8 nests of dried tagliatelle about 75g per person
- Salt and pepper to season
- Freshly chopped parsley / coriander and grated parmesan cheese to garnish
Instructions
- In a medium sized saucepan heat the olive oil, then add the diced onion and chopped garlic and sauté until soft. About 2 – 3 minutes.
- Add the ground coriander, chopped peppers and red chilli and stir everything together well and sauté for about a further 2 – 3 minutes.
- Add the chopped tomatoes and the basil leaves and cook all the vegetables until completely soft which will take about 5 minutes.
- Blitz all of the vegetables in a blender / food processor then return to the pan, add the tomato paste and season to taste with the salt and pepper.
- Add the prawns to the sauce mixture and re-heat until the prawns are cooked through. The length of time here will depend of whether you used chilled cooked prawns or frozen prawns.
- Cook the tagliatelle according to the cooking instructions.
- Serve the prawns on a bed of tagliatelle garnished with the chopped herbs and dusted with the parmesan cheese.
Notes
Nutrition
🧾 Nutrition Label
Nutritional information provided below is calculated using paid for online tools and the exact ingredients and quantities used above.
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GiGi Eats
Prawns in tomato sauce.... SO GOOD!!!!!!! 🙂 I haven't had prawns in so long!
neil@neilshealthymeals.com
Hey Gigi, many thanks for stopping by and for your really appreciated comment. 😀
This is one extremely tasty prawn dish, hope you get the chance to make it!
Love your blog by the way. 🙂
Rachel
Yum! This looks delicious. I can't wait to make it for my family!
neil@neilshealthymeals.com
Hi Rachel, thank you so much!
I'd love to hear any feedback when you get a chance to make this. 🙂
Now to take a good look at your Apricot Salsa Chicken recipe.....mmmmmm!! 😀
Shashi @ runninsrilankan
Love how you used all your leftover tomatoes/sauces - this sounds fantastic - specially with a little hint of spice from that chili!
Looking forward to seeing those "fantastic views over the Fife countryside" - Good luck with the job search, Neil!
neil@neilshealthymeals.com
Hi Shashi, I get Lynne to check on my spice levels, as she does with all my recipes, and if I had my way there would be more chili! But it might over-power the taste.....I suppose it's a personal preference with how much you could add. 🙂
Yep, those pictures of the Fife countryside are coming. I've just got to decide on which one's, as I took so many, we were so lucky with the weather that day! 😀