Have you ever considered prawns for dinner? Dinners are usually made with proteins with more mass – like pot roast, steak, and poultry. People think of prawns as an appetizer, a handheld snack, or the ingredient of some kind of light meal dish. But, prawns can actually make for a huge variety of hearty and heavy dinners that can feed your entire family for multiple servings.
Prawns are also healthier than both beef and poultry – they’re a superfood rich with more nutrients than both meats, while also being low in bad fats and high in good fats (omega 3s).
Here are four prawns dinner recipes you can try:
Lemon Herb Prawns and Rice
This is a very filling and scrumptious meal. It’s got all the savory, sour, healthy flavors with the good kind of carbohydrates rather than sugars. It’s definitely a healing dinner after a long day – and the prawns give you an added nutrient-boost along with much needed protein.
Peel and devein 1.5 pounds of prawns. Mince two teaspoons of garlic. In a bowl, add half a teaspoon of each: thyme, basil, oregano, and parsley spices. Cook 1.3 cups of rice.
In a saucepan, melt three tablespoons of butter using medium heat then remove most of it, leaving behind just enough for sauteeing. Throw in and sautee the garlic for a minute. Add the cooked rice and stir for another minute. Add the juice of an entire lemon, 2.7 cups of chicken broth, one teaspoon of salt, a fourth teaspoon of black pepper, and the contents of your spice bowl.
Bring everything to a boil, then lower the heat until it’s only simmering and cover for fifteen minutes.
In a new bowl, combine the rest of your melted butter with the half a teaspoon zest of one lemon, and one tablespoon of honey. Add your prawns and mix and toss them around to coat them uniformly.
Remove the lid from the simmering rice, then add the prawns mixture on top. You can also add fresh thyme, parsley, coriander, and some lemon wedges if you’d like – then re-cover. Let cook until prawns turn pink or five minutes maximum.
Serve and enjoy!
Full recipe here.
Prawns Lasagna
Who doesn’t love lasagna, right? But, ground beef and ham contain a lot of preservatives, sodium, and unhealthy fats. Prawns lasagna takes the dish to a healthier level!
Start by mincing three cloves of garlic. Peel and devein 1.5 cups of prawns. Preheat your oven to 350 degrees and start boiling water in a pot for the lasagna noodles. When boiling, throw in nine lasagna noodles, then remove when they are al dente cooked.
In a saucepan, melt four tablespoons of butter using medium heat then throw in and sautee the garlic for about a minute or two. Add a teaspoon each of salt and pepper, then throw in a fourth cup of flour. Stir for another minute or two or until the mixture browns.
Slowly pour in three cups of whole milk and a fourth cup of white wine while whisking until uniform and creamy. Keep whisking until the mixture starts simmering, then lower to medium heat then let the sauce thicken.
In another bowl, mix 15 ounces of ricotta cheese, one egg, a pinch of salt and pepper, three tablespoons of lemon juice, one teaspoon of dried basil, and half a cup of Parmesan cheese.
Bring out your baking dish and spread your sauce evenly across its surface. Place three lasagna noodles across the layer of sauce. Spread half the ricotta mixture across the noodles. Distribute half of your prawns across the ricotta.
Spread some of your sauce over the prawns and also a cup of mozzarella cheese. Set the next layer of the lasagna using three more noodles. On top of it, add all of your ricotta mixture and remaining prawns. Add more mozzarella and some of your sauce.
Finally, add the last layer of three lasagna noodles and top it with the rest of your sauce and your desired amount of mozzarella. Bake for about 45 minutes, or until you see the cheese turn golden brown and some bubbling.
After removing your prawns lasagna from the oven, you can garnish with some fresh parsley! Serve and enjoy!
Full recipe here.
Cajun Prawns and Rice Casserole
This recipe does wonders when you’re whole family comes in from a busy day and wants a relaxing, filling meal that’s also healthy. This isn’t a quick bite, but the kind of meal that requires active spoon and fork usage, which means more time to talk around the table and a good way to practice table manners and etiquette.
Begin by chopping up a cup of onions, half a cup of bell pepper, and a fourth cup of celery. Mince a teaspoon of garlic. Peel and devein a pound of prawns.
Cook 1.25 cups of long grain rice. Preheat your oven to 350 degrees.
Sautee the celery, bell peppers, and onions in a large pan using half a stick of butter for five minutes. Then, toss in the prawns, garlic, one teaspoon of Cajun seasoning or cayenne pepper, and half a teaspoon of black pepper. Stir and let simmer for five minutes.
Add your rice to the pan and 10.5 ounces of cream of mushroom and cream of cheddar soup cans. Stir and mix well.
Transfer to a baking dish or your preferred baking container and cover, then put it into the oven for half an hour. That’s it! When it’s done, serve and enjoy!
Full recipe here.
Prawns Rice a La King
Another rice prawns dish, this recipe actually calls for other seafood that you’d like to include! It’s a simple, but different texture because it includes corn and mushrooms.
Chop up half a cup of white onions. Peel and devein a pound of prawns. Cut up a cup of button mushrooms. Dice up a cup of carrots, a cup of red bell peppers, and half a cup of green bell peppers. Grate half a cup of your preferred cheese.
Cook two cups of short-grain rice.
Now, you can also prepare your choice of fish or seafood, like crab.
Melt a fourth cup of unsalted butter in a pot using medium heat. Throw in the onions, then stir until they’re soft. Toss in the prawns and stir until they turn pink, then manually remove the prawns and set them aside. Toss into the pot the mushrooms, rice, carrots, and celery then stir for three minutes. Add three cups of chicken stock. Cover the pot and let boil for 12 minutes.
Uncover and add the peppers and cover for two minutes. Lower the heat to low and uncover again and add a cup of corn kennels from a can, a cup of your preferred cream, and your grated cheese. You can also add any additional preferred seafood of your choice. Cover and cook until additional seafood turns color.
Turn off heat, season with salt and pepper to taste, then serve and enjoy!
Full recipe here.
Prawns for dinner can be healthier than most other meat-based dinners that aren’t seafood! Stir up your own family regimen and include one or all of these scrumptious dinner dishes to your weeknights.
