Roasted Prawns with spinach mashed potatoes and red pepper sauce

By emtoothfxr

Delicious. Made for dinner party but it's time consuming. Can deconstruct it.

Ingredients

• garnish:
• 16 prawns, peeled and butterflied
• 4 tbspn evoo
• emerils essence
• 2 cups potatoes, 1/2 inch dice
• 3 cups water
• 1 cup heavy cream
• 1/4 lb fresh spinach
• salt and pepper
• 2 tbspn butter
• 3 med. red bell peppers, roasted, peeled, seeded, and choped
• 1/4 cup chopped onions
• 2 tspns. minced garlic
• 1 tspn chopped basil
• 1/8 tspn cayenne
• 2 cups chicken stock
• 2 tbspn heavy cream
• 6 fried spinach leaves
• essence

Preparation

Step 1

Preheat to 400f
Season the prawns with the oil and essence. In a hot saute pan, sear the prawns on one side for 1 min. Place the prawns in the oven and roast for 6-8 mins. or until done. For the potatoes: Boil them as you would for mashed, remove from heat and drain. Place the cream in a sauce pot and bring up to a boil, remove from the heat. Place the spinach in a food processor and pour in the hot cream. Puree until smooth. Season with salt and pepper. place the potatoes back on the stove. Add the spinach cream and butter to the potatoes. with a masher, mash the potatoes until fairly smooth. Season with salt and pepper. For the sauce: heat the remaining olive oil. Add the peppers, onions, garlic, basil, cayenne and cook for 3 mins. Season with salt and pepper. Stir in the stock and the cream and bring to a full boil. Reduce the heat and simmer for 8 mins. with immersion blender, puree the sauce until smooth. spoon the sauce in the center of the platter. Mound the potatoes in the center of the sauce. Place the prawns around the potatoes. Garnish with fried spinach and essence.