Is there anything prawns can’t do? We like them tossed through pasta in a spicy tomato sauce or done wafu pasta-style with sake-soy butter; but we’re equally pleased by prawns that have been kissed by the smoke and char of a barbecue, prawn ceviche with a green-chilli dressing, or a comforting prawn curry. This versatile crustacean is available year-round, so don’t leave all your prawn eating to summer.
Prawns are easy and quick to cook, making them primed for simple dinners as well as impressive dinner party snacks. Whether you’re a lover of prawn pasta recipes, barbecued prawns with a lovely marinade or sauce, or a fresh prawn salad, nothing pleases like a prawn.
In our collection of perfect prawn recipes, we have delicious pasta recipes, barbecued delights like Mat Lindsay’s prawns with brown butter and tamari and light and quick seafood meals such as a soba noodle salad with sake grilled prawns that takes just 15 minutes to make. We also have brilliant starters, from our chicken, prawn and chilli pot stickers recipe or super-easy charred prawns on skewers with lime that takes less than 10 minutes to cook. For easy midweek dinners, try Liberté’s stir fry garlic prawns with chilli and Thai basil or our linguine with tomato, prawns and rocket.
Here are our best prawn recipes, perfect for all occasions.
Summer paccheri with prawns, tomato and pickled chilli
Helly Raichura’s Bengali prawns and seablite (shorshe chingri)
Prawn linguine with semi-dried tomatoes and olives
Prawns and clams baked in tomato and chilli
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Soba noodles with nori sesame butter and sake-grilled prawns
Philipa Sibley’s spaghettini, prawns, charred corn, green chilli, black garlic
Linguine with tomato, prawns and rocket
Liberté’s garlic prawns with chilli and Thai basil
Vesuvio with prawns, white wine and tomato
Tedesca Osteria’s prawns with saffron, fino sherry and garlic sauce
Barbecued prawns with brown butter and tamari
Bengali prawns and seablite (shorshe chingri)
Mixed grilled seafood salad with lemon mignonette
Rockmelon, lime and poppy-seed prawn cocktails
Palisa Anderson’s yum makeua (grilled eggplant salad with prawns)
Mustard butter prawns with corn and wilted greens
Grilled prawns with coconut rice and peach sambal
Louis Tikaram’s Mooloolaba prawn ceviche with green chilli dressing
Mike McEnearney’s grilled prawn, watermelon and tomato salad
Cutler & Co’s wood-grilled prawns with fried garlic and chilli oil
Penne with prawns and fra diavolo sauce
Prawn and scallop har gow with garlic oil
Charred cabbage with chestnuts and prawns
Wafu pasta: fettuccine with prawns, tomato and sake-soy butter
Prawns with black beans, chorizo and chipotle
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Crab, prawn and fennel stew with rouille
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Charred prawns, eggplant and chickpeas with roast tomato vinaigrette
Pork, prawn and tofu fritters with salted chilli sauce
Prawn tostadas with corn relish and chipotle crème fraîche
Charred prawn sandwich with fennel, lemon myrtle and lime
Lau’s Family Kitchen’s prawns and char siu with vermicelli in a claypot
Kylie Kwong’s Cantonese-style prawn wonton soup
Prawn and bean salad with preserved lemon dressing
Prawn and pomelo salad with roasted chilli dressing
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Prawn and avocado salad with spiced tomato dressing
Vietnamese-style grilled prawns with chilli dressing
Kylie Kwong’s prawn dumplings with organic tamari and chilli dressing
Bucatini with prawn fra diavolo
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Grilled prawns with tamarind, coconut rice and watermelon
David Thompson’s prawns baked with vermicelli
Barbecued prawns with honey, sesame and lemon
