Good ingredients to pair with prawns
Garlic, chilli and lemon keep prawns bright, while tomatoes, peppers and noodles make the meal more substantial. Pasta and rice are good for carrying a sauce so the prawns do not have to do all the work.
Easy prawns meal ideas
- garlic prawn pasta — use it as a starting format and adapt the vegetables, seasonings and portions to what you have.
- prawn fried rice — use it as a starting format and adapt the vegetables, seasonings and portions to what you have.
- chilli prawn noodles — use it as a starting format and adapt the vegetables, seasonings and portions to what you have.
- tomato prawn linguine — use it as a starting format and adapt the vegetables, seasonings and portions to what you have.
How to get the best from prawns
Add prawns near the end and cook only until they are opaque and firm. If they are already cooked, they usually need warming rather than a long fry; adding them too early is the quickest way to make them rubbery.
Turn a few ingredients into a coherent dinner
Choose a base, a flavour direction and one or two supporting ingredients. For example, rice or potatoes can make the meal filling, while lemon and garlic, tomato and herbs, soy and chilli, or curry spices can give the ingredients a clear direction.
Make the idea fit your evening
The same ingredient can produce a very different answer depending on whether you need dinner in 20 minutes, want one pan, are feeding four people or need to use another ingredient before it goes to waste. Add those constraints before choosing the final recipe.
Use SIZZIO to make it specific
Tell SIZZIO what you have, how many people you are feeding and what kind of meal you want. You can then save the recipe and move into the cooking flow instead of starting another search when it is time to cook.