Ingredient

Prawns recipes

Fast cooking, big flavour — curries, stir-fries and grills. 159 recipes on the site call for prawns.

Raw prawns cook in a few minutes and turn rubbery soon after, so add them near the end. The ingredient list says whether a recipe was written for raw or cooked prawns, and pasta and salads use them as well as curries and stir-fries.

Prawns is in 159 recipes from 30 cuisines, among them 80 dinners, 34 appetisers and small plates, 22 quick meals and 16 lunches. The cuisines that use it most here are American (34), Chinese (20), Italian (19) and Spanish (9). Of these, 56 are ready in 30 minutes or less, start to finish; the quickest are Prawn Mayo Sandwich (10 min), Prawn and Avocado Salad (15 min) and Blackened Shrimp (16 min). For 26, the method times a wait such as rising, chilling or marinating, and the time at the top of the recipe includes it. By difficulty: 82 easy, 70 medium and 7 hard.

As written, 45 are gluten-free and 102 dairy-free. Another 4 meet a diet label only with a swap the recipe names, and the recipe says which.