Jamie Oliver's 'elegant' prawn pasta dish will be on your table in 15 minutes

Pasta is simply a quick, elemental and comforting repast that tin beryllium enjoyed immoderate time of the week and this prawn linguine from Jamie Oliver volition not disappoint erstwhile it comes to taste, nor speed.

A hearty vessel of pasta is the perfect comfortableness nutrient for a chilly winter's evening and Jamie Oliver's prawn linguine recipe ticks each the boxes for flavour and speedy preparation.

With the festive season acceptable to marque our schedules busier than ever, accelerated meals are indispensable - but that doesn't mean compromising connected taste.

Celebrity cook Jamie has crafted a pasta crockery that not lone tin beryllium whipped up successful a specified 15 minutes, but besides boasts restaurant-quality flavours. The look features linguine, succulent prawns, smoked pancetta, garlic, rocket and "a buss of reddish wine", creating a crockery that is not lone delicious but, successful Jamie's words, "a spot posh too".

"Elegant, delicious and connected the array successful conscionable 15 minutes," says the TV star, "this prawn pasta hits the spot and feels a spot posh, too. By finely chopping astir of the prawns, they'll instrumentality beautifully to the linguine, creating sweetness and texture."

Here's what you request to marque Jamie's prawn linguine:

• 150 g dried linguine
• 2 cloves of garlic
• 160 g earthy peeled king prawns, from sustainable sources
• 4 rashers of higher-welfare smoked pancetta
• Olive oil
• 50 ml Italian reddish wine
• 1 heaped tablespoonful mascarpone cheese
• 50 g rocket
• 10 g Parmesan cheese

Here's however to hole the dish:

Cook the pasta successful a ample cookware of boiling salted h2o according to the packet instructions. Peel and finely chop the garlic. Butterfly 2 prawns by moving a weapon down their backs and finely chop the rest

Start by heating a ample non-stick frying cookware connected a mean vigor with 1 tablespoonful of olive oil, past adhd the finely sliced pancetta and fry until it turns golden. Next, flip successful the ail and 2 full prawns, cooking for 2 minutes earlier pouring successful the vino and letting it navigator through.

Then, disturbance successful the chopped prawns and mascarpone, heating for 1 minute. Now, utilizing tongs, transportation the linguine into the frying cookware on with a spot of the starchy h2o from the pot.

Roughly chop the rocket and adhd astir of it to the pan, continuously tossing everything unneurotic until the condiment becomes silky. Finish disconnected with immoderate parmesan and achromatic pepper, serving with the remaining rocket sprinkled connected apical and other parmesan if you're a food lover.