Rich and creamy fettuccine pasta recipe with shrimps. All of this juicy creamy sauce swirled around delicious pasta and fried shrimps. Learn how you can recreate this mouthwatering pasta dish at home following this easy recipe at home.
Pasta with shrimps in a tender creamy sauce is one of the most popular pasta recipes, for sure. With its easy-to-make recipe, exquisite taste, and mouth-watering aroma, it won`t leave you indifferent. In the recipe, you first cook shrimps in the skillet, then add those few ingredients that I have in the list – butter and leek – let them cook for a bit together with shrimps, pour half-half. When the sauce thickens, it is time to add boiled pasta.
There is one thing I must confess to you. I still do not consider myself a professional cook, so to speak. I find it difficult to cook several things on the stove at the same time. So, I prefer to cook the pasta first and leave it in a colander. Only after that do I start making the sauce. I hope that one day it will be easy for me to mingle the two things at once.
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Shrimp Pasta Ingredients:
- 250 g pasta of your choice;
- 500 g shrimps;
- 50 g leek, sliced;
- 200 ml half-and-half;
- 1 tbsp. butter, unsalted;
- 2 tbsps. olive oil;
- Salt and freshly ground black pepper to your taste.
How to make pasta with shrimps in creamy sauce:
- Defrost shrimps beforehand. Take them out of the freezer to the fridge for the night. Drain all the liquid using the colander and peel the shrimps, get rid of the heads (I sometimes prefer leaving tales on).
Here is a tip for you: if you forgot to take shrimps out of the freezer, you can defrost them under running cold water. Just leave them in the colander for several minutes!
- Cook pasta in salted water until al dente. If you have problems with boiling a perfect pasta, I have several detailed guides where you can find almost every tip possible that can help you with that: How to cook short-cut pasta and How to cook long-length pasta. Transfer pasta to the colander to drain all the boiling water.
- Heat oil in the skillet on medium to high heat. Add shrimps and fry them for a minute on each side.
- Add butter and sliced leek to the skillet with shrimps. Cook the mixture for a minute or two.
- Pour half-and-half into the skillet and stir the mixture until combined. Let it boil. Mind that the liquid should not be cold (straight out of the fridge); leave it on the kitchen counter at room temperature when you start cooking.
- Add salt and freshly ground black pepper. Sauté the mixture for additional several minutes by constantly stirring until half-and-half thickens.
- Lower the heat to a minimum and add cooked pasta.
- Mix until the strings will be evenly covered in creamy sauce. Take the skillet from the stove and cover it with a lid. Leave it covered for 10 minutes before serving. Enjoy!
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Creamy Shrimp Pasta Recipe – Easy Fettuccine Pasta Recipe
Ingredients
- 250 g pasta of your choice
- 500 g shrimps
- 50 g leek, sliced
- 200 ml half-and-half
- 1 tbsp. butter, unsalted
- 2 tbsps. olive oil
- Salt and freshly ground black pepper to your taste
Instructions
- Defrost shrimps beforehand. Take them out of the freezer to the fridge for the night. Drain all the liquid using the colander and peel the shrimps, get rid of the heads (I sometimes prefer leaving tales on).
- Cook pasta in salted water until al dente. If you have problems with boiling a perfect pasta, I have several detailed guides where you can find almost every tip possible that can help you with that: How to cook short-cut pasta and How to cook long-length pasta. Transfer pasta to the colander to drain all the boiling water.
- Heat oil in the skillet on medium to high heat. Add shrimps and fry them for a minute on each side.
- Add butter and sliced leek to the skillet with shrimps. Cook the mixture for a minute or two.
- Pour half-and-half into the skillet and stir the mixture until combined. Let it boil. Mind that the liquid should not be cold (straight out of the fridge); leave it on the kitchen counter at room temperature when you start cooking.
- Add salt and freshly ground black pepper. Sauté the mixture for additional several minutes by constantly stirring until half-and-half thickens.
- Lower the heat to a minimum and add cooked pasta.
- Mix until the strings will be evenly covered in creamy sauce. Take the skillet from the stove and cover it with a lid. Leave it covered for 10 minutes before serving. Enjoy!
Notes
If you have any tips on how to make this recipe even more delicious, leave them in the comment section below!
