I went through a stage of not eating pasta – because I got sick of tomato-based sauces and I didn’t want to go with a not-so-healthy cream sauces. Then I discovered a middle ground with the wonderful combination of extra virgin-olive oil, garlic and parmesan cheese! If you want to share this meal with someone, then just double the ingredients.

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Meal for One: Fettuccini with Prawns, Snow Peas and Broccoli

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Course Main Course

Servings 1 serve

Ingredients

1 clove garlic minced
Light olive oil for frying
150 g raw prawn cutlets
handful snow peas trimmed, cut into 1.5cm pieces
1 cup broccoli florets
100-110 g fresh fettuccini
2-3 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
Grated parmesan cheese and chilli flakes to serve

Instructions

Cook fettuccini using packet instructions
In a frying pan, heat olive oil on medium-heat, add garlic and heat for 1 minute
Add prawns and cook until they just turn pink
Add the vegetables into the frying pan and heat until just cooked through and still crisp, stirring occasionally
Add fettuccini to the pan and toss to mix ingredient together
Turn off heat, drizzle extra virgin olive oil over pasta and mix together
Sprinkle grated parmesan cheese and chilli flakes to serve