Patsy's garlic & chilli prawns

Ingredients
- 8 large raw shell-on king prawns, from sustainable sources
- 3 cloves of garlic
- 1 fresh red chilli
- a few sprigs of fresh flat-leaf parsley
- 50ml olive oil, ideally Spanish
- ½ teaspoon smoked paprika
- 1 lemon
Instructions
- 1
Peel the prawns, removing the heads and leaving the tails on. Run the tip of a knife down the backs of the peeled prawns and pull out and discard the dark vein.
- 2
Peel the garlic and finely chop with the chilli (deseed if you like). Pick and finely chop the parsley leaves.
- 3
Drizzle the oil into a shallow heatproof terracotta dish or a small frying pan over a medium-high heat, add the garlic and chilli and fry for 30 seconds to flavour the oil, before stirring in the paprika.
- 4
Add the prawns and fry for 2 minutes on each side, or until cooked through, adding most of the parsley when you turn the prawns.
- 5
Squeeze half the lemon juice into the dish, then remove from the heat and sprinkle over the remaining parsley and a pinch of sea salt.
- 6
Serve sizzling with warm crusty bread, the remaining lemon cut wedges for squeezing over, and a glass of good Spanish wine.


