This recipe for Pesto Shrimp Pasta is really simple to prepare, yet it will give you the impression that you are enjoying a dinner of restaurant quality in the comfort of your own home.
Ingredients
8 oz. spaghetti
2 minced garlic cloves
Salt to taste
1 tbsp. olive oil
8 oz. asparagus
1 cup sliced white mushrooms
¾ pound peeled and deveined shrimp
⅛ tsp. red pepper
¼ cup pesto – or pr
2 tbsp. grated parmesan cheese
Direction
In a pot of boiling salted water, cook the spaghetti for 10 minutes.
The spaghetti should be drained but some of the pasta water should be kept aside.
In a skillet, heat the olive oil.
After the garlic, asparagus, and mushrooms have been sautéed for 5 minutes, they should be tender.
Adding the shrimp to the skillet and seasoning with red pepper flakes is the next step
Let it cook for 5 minutes.
You can add a few tablespoons of pasta water if the liquid is needed.
Combine the pesto sauce and the parmesan cheese.
Add the pesto to the shrimp and stir well.
After 5 minutes, remove from the heat
Serve with spaghetti
Pesto Shrimp Pasta
Ingredients
- 8 oz Spaghetti
- 2 minced garlic cloves
- salt
- 1 tbsp 1 tbsp. olive oil
- 8 oz asparagus
- 1 cup sliced white mushrooms
- ¾ pound peeled and deveined shrimp
- ⅛ tsp red pepper
- ¼ cup pesto
- 2 tbsp grated parmesan cheese
Instructions
- In a pot of boiling salted water, cook the spaghetti for 10 minutes.
- The spaghetti should be drained but some of the pasta water should be kept aside.
- In a skillet, heat the olive oil.
- After the garlic, asparagus, and mushrooms have been sautéed for 5 minutes, they should be tender.
- Adding the shrimp to the skillet and seasoning with red pepper flakes is the next step
- Let it cook for 5 minutes.
- You can add a few tablespoons of pasta water if the liquid is needed.
- Combine the pesto sauce and the parmesan cheese.
- Add the pesto to the shrimp and stir well.
- After 5 minutes, remove from the heat
- Serve with spaghetti
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