CHEAT’S LOBSTER SPAGHETTI

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I love cooking food from scratch – not only healthier (with less salt and sugar than pre-prepared dishes) but also tastier. Plus, you can add any ingredients that you like to personalise the recipe to you and your family’s particular tastes. This Cheat’s Lobster Spaghetti recipe uses tinned soup – yes, tinned soup. The only tinned soup I would wholeheartedly recommend mind you. No-one is more surprised than me that it tastes as good as it does. I know I’m blowing my own trumpet here but this quick and easy recipe is one I think you’ll want to make again and again.

Annabel gave me some peanut rayu – a relish that I’d never seen before. Definitely once seen never forgotten – am now ladling spoonfuls onto anything remotely Asian inspired because I love it’s crunchy spiciness.

CHEAT'S LOBSTER SPAGHETTI
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CHEAT’S LOBSTER SPAGHETTI

Recipe by Grace

A super quick lunch or supper that may not take much time but is packed full of the taste of the sea. If you can’t get samphire, which I couldn’t (shame, I really love the stuff!) use rocket instead. I am definitely not a fan of tinned soup but Baxters Lobster Bisque is exceptional and certainly saves a huge amount of faffing around making your own.

Ingredients

  • 150g spaghetti

  • 8 shell on raw prawns (as large as you can find)

  • Half finely chopped red chilli.

  • Grated zest of an unwaxed lemon

  • Tin of Baxters Lobster soup

  • Quarter of cucumber

  • 2 spring onions

  • Peanut rayu

Directions

  • Decant the soup into a large saucepan and pop in the chilli and your raw prawns, shell and all. Heat gently until the prawns are cooked through.
  • Meanwhile, finely chop the spring onions and cucumber and set aside.
  • Put the spaghetti into another saucepan and pour over boiling water and cook as per packet instructions (preferably al dente).
  • Drain the pasta and put into two warmed bowls. Add four prawns and half the lobster soup to each portion. Top with the fresh cucumber, spring onions, a sprinkling of lemon zest and a good dollop of rayu. If you have any coriander or similar handy, pop some on top.

Notes

  • Next time I’m going to add a good handful of samphire to the soup.

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