Gambas with butter beans and smoked paprika

Name: Gambas with butter beans and smoked paprika
Total time: 20 min
Cuisine: Spanish
Ingredients: 500g raw king prawns, peeled; 2 tin butter beans, drained and rinsed, 400 g tins; 4 tbsp olive oil; 5 garlic cloves, thinly sliced; 1 tsp smoked paprika; 0.5 tsp chilli flakes; 1 lemon, juiced; 3 tbsp fresh parsley, chopped; 200g baby spinach

Sizzling garlic prawns in smoky paprika oil, stirred through creamy butter beans.

Time20 min
LevelEasy
Costabout £3.13 a head

4 servings

Ingredients

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500 graw king prawnspeeled
2tin butter beansdrained and rinsed, 400 g tins
4 tbspolive oil
5garlic clovesthinly sliced
1 tspsmoked paprika
½ tspchilli flakes
1lemonjuiced
3 tbspfresh parsleychopped
200 gbaby spinach

Method

1
Warm 2 tablespoons of oil in a pan over a medium heat. Add the butter beans and spinach and cook for 4 minutes until the spinach wilts. Season and keep warm.
4 min
2
In a large frying pan, heat the rest of the oil over a medium heat. Add the garlic and cook for 1 minute until pale gold. Do not let it burn.
3
Add the paprika and chilli flakes, then the prawns. Cook for 3 minutes, turning, until pink and curled.
3 min
4
Add the lemon juice and parsley and take off the heat.
5
Spoon the beans onto plates and pile the prawns and their oil on top.

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