Creamy tomato, courgette & prawn pasta

really yummy and easy. I doubled the prawns for extra protein. Definitely season early - I added chili flakes and lots of salt and pepper but you can experiment. Agree with others sauce is slightly watery but i thought it was fine.

The sauce was quite watery. I suggest prolonging the simmer time (maybe even to 30 mins) and/or use tomato paste in addition to fresh tomatoes (or skip the fresh tomatoes all together and use canned). Another way to thicken the sauce is to add a thickening agent, but I find that the flavour becomes more intense with the first mentioned suggestions. Lastly, I've read that fresh tomatoes contain an enzyme that breaks down the elements in a sauce that make give it consistency in the first place, to avoid this problem you can bring your tomatoes up to high heat in the beginning of the cooking process (the enzyme becomes ineffective) or again use canned to tomatoes which already have been heated in the canning process.

A version of this was a great favourite supper dish when I was a child (no sun-dried tomatoes then!). This is just as good if not better.

This was okay for a mid-week meal but was nothing special.

This was really tasty and quick to make. I added come chilli flakes for a kick and some petis pois at the end. Great mid-week dish!