Prawn lasagne with habanero oil from Mezcla: Recipes to Excite (page 209) by Ixta Belfrage

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    Can substitute regular chilli flakes for dried habanero chillies, and shellfish stock or chicken stock for fish stock.

  • Schooffiecooks on March 25, 2026

    Made a vegetarian lasagna with cauliflower! We both loved it!

  • blaine_xla09q on March 12, 2026

    Crowd favorite, I think of her often. Sounds weird to pummel shellfish and drown it in cream and tomato and pasta and cheese but this recipe is stick-to-your-ribs divine. Flowery and fiery Habanero oil seals the deal.

  • traveller on January 20, 2026

    This recipe is the reason I bought this book - absolutely outstanding! The habanero is absolutely vital - the flavour is amazing. The other thing is Ixta mentions tomato paste and tomato purée as interchangeable. I have used both - the paste makes it very rich so I now use half half in the ragu. Also I used a food processor to chop up the tomatoes, onions, prawns and think it changes the texture - I much prefer it when it is hand chopped.

  • catmummery on December 29, 2025

    loved this - husband says 'bonkers, f...ing delicious!' agree that flavours are rich and deep, there is enough moisture to keep the lasagne as it should be though i wondered about that when making it. When I made the oil, i ended up with crispy bits as fried it too long but those were super delicioius as an extra topping so might even make it again that way. Also kept the habanero in loved the heat - not too much. YUM. went really well with the citrusy green salad in the book

  • Frenchfoodie on July 01, 2023

    Delicious, deeply flavoured, rich and satisfying.

  • ellwell on March 21, 2023

    This was good. I guess I was expecting to be more “wowed” because of all the hype I have heard about this recipe. My husband said “give it a good review” . I thought the consistency of the shrimp was a little weird and we kept wondering if we would have preferred it with sausage.

  • Senkimekia on February 26, 2023

    Wow, the flavor in this is unreal. If someone handed me a plate of this I actually would not guess there was shrimp in it at first. The flavors are strong in a delightful way and this is definitely going to be a repeat in our house.

  • VineTomato on December 22, 2022

    Totally divine. Kept the whole habanero in, just chopped it up and we loved it. Can't wait to make this again.

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