GORDON RAMSAY RECIPES

Feel for fresh, delicate, sweet but full flavors at the same time. In the summer we are hunting for new tastes that know how to support us in the great fight in the heat, but at the same time know celebrate our desire to party, share and enjoy ourselves, even at the table. And one of the dishes that seem born to do this is just the pasta with shrimp, a great classic that lends itself to be served hot, warm, cold and enriched with many different ingredients. Here are some rules and tasty ideas to turn it into a summer dish.

Shrimp cooking

At the base of a successful pasta with shrimp, there is the right cooking of the prawns. Which must be quick and delicate to preserve its juice and softness. If you opt for boiling, it will take a couple of minutes in boiling water and, if you are preparing a cold dough, you will block the cooking in a bowl with cold water and ice.

Shrimp size

When we talk about shrimp we mean small shrimp that lend themselves to being cooked in very tasty sauces with the whole shell and the head or cooked quickly to enrich delicate first courses. In any case we treat these small crustaceans with care and we also use the shells and the heads to give more flavor to our dishes. If we choose large shrimp tails instead, we will have to take care to clean them carefully and serve them after a short cooking, perhaps on top of the pasta dish. If you love raw, you can complete each dish with a small portion of tartare.

The ingredients ok

To enhance our pasta with shrimp, we can focus on a group of ingredients that can enhance this combination. Yes with lemon, lime, mozzarella, burrata, almonds, sesame, rocket, cherry tomatoes and courgettes. But also to other ingredients from the sea like mussels, clams and squid.

In the gallery above, 20 pastas with delicious prawns.

How not to give up a pasta dish even when the low-carb diet asks us to stay away from pasta. The tastiest ideas for a good and light summer

Dieting is stressful for many reasons: organization and deprivation turn every meal into a real challenge. Here we are counting calories, writing menus on the calendar and closing everything we can't eat in the pantry. "Better not look," we say as we move away from our eyes and hearts biscuits, tarallini, chips, puddings, chocolate bars, snacks and even pasta. Are you sure you can do without it?
We do not. Despite the strict diet we are unable to deprive ourselves of a good dish of spaghetti with tomato sauce, perhaps perfumed with some basil leaves. And since eating them every day could put all the efforts made so far into play, we found the idea of summer light: eggplant pasta!

Like spaghettoni

To use aubergines instead of pasta, we decided to use them as if they were big spaghetti to season. To make them, the first operation to do is to cut the aubergines vertically and proceed to cut them into thin strips.

At this point it will be possible to put them in a colander that we will use to dry them with a bit of salt and remove the excess.

How to cook them

Once softened, the aubergines are ready to be cooked. If you are tempted to parboil them as you do with pasta, stop: they would absorb too much water, swelling up like real sponges. Better to sauté in a pan with a few minutes with very little oil and a pinch of salt. Stop before reaching the gilding phase and choose the condiment that you like best.

Our idea

Given the great heat and the desire to remain light, we advise you to choose light and fresh condiments so as not to weigh down this dietetic dish. We opted for cherry tomatoes and prawn tails, but feel free to create. Eggplant noodles are in fact good also simply served with olives, capers and cherry tomatoes, but they also lend themselves to being seasoned with fresh vegetables, anchovies and flakes of pecorino!

The alternative

This technique is so beautiful that we can't stop there. Try preparing delicious vegetable noodles with zucchini, carrots and beets. They will also be delicious simply seasoned with garlic, oil and chilli.

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Shrimp paste, summer queen – Italian Cuisine