POLOKWANE – The beauty of pasta is that it can be paired with anything and it will still taste good.
Ingredients
375ml water
125ml lowfat milk
30ml stork margarine
2 x KNORR Sour Cream and Mushroom Pasta and Sauce
15ml olive oil
2 cloves garlic, crushed
7ml Robertsons Crushed Chilli
450g prawns, uncooked, peeled and deveined
1 red pepper, deseeded and sliced
250g asparagus, blanched and halved
200g broccoli florets, blanched
Method
Place water and milk in large saucepan and bring to the boil over high heat. Add Stork Margarine. Once the Stork Margarine has melted, add the contents of the Knorr Sour Cream & Mushroom Pasta & Sauce packet and cook over high heat for 5 minutes, stirring occasionally. Set aside.
Heat the oil in a large pan, over medium heat, cook the garlic and Robertsons Crushed Chilli for 2 minutes. Add the prawns, and cook for a further 5 minutes. Add the red pepper, asparagus and broccoli and cook for 5 minutes.
Add the prawn mix to the pasta, fold in gently and cook for further 3 minutes.
Remove from the heat, cover and stand for 2 minutes before serving.
Raeesa Sempe is a Caxton Award-winning Digital Editor with nine years’ experience in the industry. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Media Studies from the University of the Witwatersrand and started her journey as a community journalist for the Polokwane Review in 2015. She then became the online journalist for the Review in 2016 where she excelled in solidifying the Review’s digital footprint through Facebook lives, content creation and marketing campaigns. Raeesa then moved on to become the News Editor of the Bonus Review in 2019 and scooped up the Editorial Employee of the Year award in the same year. She is the current Digital Editor of the Polokwane Review-Observer, a position she takes pride in. Raeesa is married with one child and enjoys spending time with friends, listening to music and baking – when she has the time. “I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon." – Tom Stoppard