
Italian
Silvia’s Masterclass
From
Silvia’s Masterclass
season
1
Linguine with Roasted Tomatoes, Prawns and Chilli Lemon Pangrattato
With
Silvia Colloca

Ingredients
1x packet Barilla Linguine
600 g cherry tomatoes
⅓ cup (80ml) extra virgin olive oil
clove garlic, skin on, bashed with the back of a knife
2 spring onions, thinly sliced
1 small handful flat-leaf parsley stalks
pinch of sugar
salt flakes
16 tiger prawns, peeled and de-veined
2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
1 small handful flat-leaf parsley stalks, finely chopped
1 teaspoon salt flakes
1 clove garlic, finely chopped
for the pangrattato
2 thick slices of stale sourdough
1 peeled garlic clove
1 red chilli (or bird’s eye)
Method
Pre heat your Ooni oven to 200C. Place your tomatoes, oil, garlic, spring onion, pinch of sugar and salt flakes into a ovenproof baking tray. Place into the Ooni for 10 minutes stirring every 5 minutes until tomatoes are blistered. Remove from the oven add prawns and parsley and cook for a further 2-3 minutes until prawns are cooked through.
If using a regular oven preheat your oven to 220°C (fan-forced 200°C) and line a roasting tin with baking paper.
Place the tomatoes in a large mixing bowl with the olive oil, garlic clove,, spring onion, parsley stalks (no need to chop them), sugar and 2 teaspoons salt. Using your hands, toss the tomatoes in the dressing until nicely coated. Put them in the roasting tin and roast for 20 minutes or until they look bursting with ripeness and slightly sunburnt. Add the prawns into the pan in the last 5 minutes of cooking.Transfer them to a bowl, making sure you collect all the juices. They will make your final dish sing! Discard wilted herbs, squeeze the soft garlic out of the skin (discard the skin), set aside
To make the pangrattato whiz the stale bread in a food processor along with 1 peeped garlic clove and 1 red chilli.
Heat the oil in a pan over medium-high heat, add the pangrattato mixture and cook for 2-3 minutes or until well toasted. Set aside.
Time to prepare the prawns. Heat up olive oil over medium–high heat in a large heavy based pan. Add the spring onion and parsley and cook for 2–3 minutes or until fragrant. Add the prawn meat, salt and garlic and cook for 1 minute, stirring with a wooden spoon. Pour in the wine and bubble away until the alcohol has evaporated. Turn off the heat. Add the the roasted tomatoes to the cooked prawns.
Shortly before the prawns are ready, bring a large saucepan of salted water to the boil, drop in the linguine and cook for 8-9 minutes or until just done.
Using tongs , lift the pasta straight into the tomato and prawn pan, along with 3–4 tablespoons of pasta cooking water, and sauté the pasta in the sauce for about 1 minute or until nicely coated in the garlic and wine juices.
Serve immediately, with a generous scattering of parsley and and the chilli pangrattato
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Silvia Colloca
Silvia Colloca is an Italian-born food writer, opera singer, TV producer and host. She has authored seven cookbooks, including Silvia’s Cucina, Made in Italy, La Dolce Vita, Love, Laugh, Bake!, Simple Italian (2024), and The Italian Homecook (2025), all published by Penguin.
Silvia’s most recent television work is Silvia’s Italian Masterclass (Channel 10), with its latest season airing in October 2025. The series is currently funding for Season 4. She has also appeared as a special guest on SBS’s Mastermind in 2025. Her earlier TV credits include the SBS Food series Cook Like an Italian, which has screened internationally across three seasons, as well as Made in Italy with Silvia Colloca (SBS), filmed on location in the Le Marche and Abruzzo regions and earning her a 2015 TV WEEK Logie Award nomination for Best New Talent. She also co-wrote, co-produced and hosted the ABC prime-time series Silvia’s Italian Table in 2016.
Outside of food and television, Silvia has enjoyed a career as a celebrated opera singer and actress. In 2022, she released her debut solo classical album with Universal Music, which topped the Classical Charts for over 20 weeks. That same year, she performed with Andrea Bocelli at his Sydney concert, a once-in-a-lifetime experience.

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