Is there anything prawns can’t do? We like them tossed through pasta in a spicy tomato sauce or done wafu pasta-style with sake-soy butter; but we’re equally pleased by prawn recipes that see the crustacean kissed by the smoke and char of a barbecue; prawn ceviche with a green-chilli dressing; or a comforting prawn curry. This versatile crustacean is available year-round, so don’t leave all your prawn eating to summer.
Prawns are easy and quick to cook, making them primed for simple dinners as well as impressive dinner party snacks. Whether you’re a lover of prawn pasta recipes, barbecued prawns with a lovely marinade or sauce, or a fresh prawn salad, nothing pleases like a prawn.
In our collection of perfect prawn recipes, we have delicious pasta recipes, barbecued delights like Mat Lindsay’s prawns with brown butter and tamari and light and quick seafood meals such as a soba noodle salad with sake grilled prawns that takes just 15 minutes to make. We also have brilliant starters, from our chicken, prawn and chilli pot stickers recipe or super-easy charred prawns on skewers with lime that takes less than 10 minutes to cook. For easy midweek dinners, try Liberté’s stir fry garlic prawns with chilli and Thai basil or our linguine with tomato, prawns and rocket.
Here are our best prawn recipes, perfect for all occasions.
Best prawn recipes to cook in 2024

Salt and pepper prawn and pork noodles

Prawn chowder with sweetcorn from Sean Moran

Tomato and prawn empanadas with picante sauce

Chilli-rosemary prawns with butter

Prawn and crab toast with herb salad

Lemongrass prawns with gỏi xoài

Paul Farag’s grilled prawns, corn, saffron pine nut milk

Saffron and coconut prawns

Summer paccheri with prawns, tomato and pickled chilli

Prawns with basil verde and seared scallops seafood platter

Prawn linguine with semi-dried tomatoes and olives

Prawns and clams baked in tomato and chilli
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Soba noodles with nori sesame butter and sake-grilled prawns

Tony Tan’s char kway teow

Philipa Sibley’s spaghettini, prawns, charred corn, green chilli, black garlic

Linguine with tomato, prawns and rocket

Fragrant prawns with Thai basil and udon noodles

Vesuvio with prawns, white wine and tomato

Tedesca Osteria’s prawns with saffron, fino sherry and garlic sauce

Prawn sandwich with kimchi mayo

Barbecued prawns with brown butter and tamari

Helly Raichura’s Bengali prawns and seablite (shorshe chingri)

Mixed grilled seafood salad with lemon mignonette

Chicken, prawn and chilli pot stickers

Okonomiyaki hotcakes with school prawns

Rockmelon, lime and poppy-seed prawn cocktails

Charred prawns on skewers with lime

Prawn and sesame toasts

Palisa Anderson’s yum makeua (grilled eggplant salad with prawns)

Al Dente’s prawn ravioli

Tony Tan’s typhoon shelter prawns

Mustard butter prawns with corn and wilted greens

Vietnamese rice paper rolls

Grilled prawns with coconut rice and peach sambal

Louis Tikaram’s Mooloolaba prawn ceviche with green chilli dressing

Mike McEnearney’s grilled prawn, watermelon and tomato salad

Prawn cocktail tower

Cutler & Co’s wood-grilled prawns with fried garlic and chilli oil

Penne with prawns and fra diavolo sauce

Prawn and scallop har gow with garlic oil

Charred cabbage with chestnuts and prawns

Prawns with saffron, chilli and quinoa

Raes on Wategos’ king prawn sangas

Prawn, cabbage and soba noodle salad

Rumi’s prawn börek

Wafu pasta: Fettuccine with prawns, tomato and sake-soy butter

Prawns with black beans, chorizo and chipotle

Ma hor (galloping horses)
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Spicy prawn and lemongrass sticks

Crab, prawn and fennel stew with rouille

Prawn, slaw and pico de gallo tacos

Prawn carpaccio with prawn oil
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Charred prawns, eggplant and chickpeas with roast tomato vinaigrette

Pork, prawn and tofu fritters with salted chilli sauce

Prawn tostadas with corn relish and chipotle crème fraîche

King prawns and brown butter

Charred prawn sandwich with fennel, lemon myrtle and lime

Lau’s Family Kitchen’s prawns and char siu with vermicelli in a claypot

Kylie Kwong’s Cantonese-style prawn wonton soup

Bloody Mary prawn rolls

Prawn and bean salad with preserved lemon dressing

Prawn and pomelo salad with roasted chilli dressing
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Prawn and avocado salad with spiced tomato dressing

Prawn and avocado with lime

Vietnamese-style grilled prawns with chilli dressing

Kylie Kwong’s prawn dumplings with organic tamari and chilli dressing

Bucatini with prawn fra diavolo

Grilled prawns with tamarind, coconut rice and watermelon

David Thompson’s prawns baked with vermicelli

Prawn curry

Liberté’s garlic prawns with chilli and Thai basil
