Creamy Shrimp Pasta with Mushrooms in a delicious do-it-yourself alfredo sauce. This recipe has all of the flavors you’ll love: shrimp, mushrooms, garlic, basil, beaten red pepper flakes, paprika, Parmesan and Mozzarella cheese.
I love shrimp and it tastes vast on this creamy shrimp and mushroom pasta. But no longer lots of my chums make recipes with shrimp as lots as I do, and I assume for lots of people, all of it boils down to questions like: Well, what are you able to do with shrimp? What sauce to consume with shrimp?
To me, the greatest option to practice dinner and consume shrimp is in a luscious creamy sauce with pasta! And, don’t neglect mushrooms – they move amazingly effectively with shrimp!
This recipe is the reply to all these questions, and it be also an embarrassingly simple recipe. Plus, this creamy shrimp pasta with mushrooms is gluten loose friendly, as all you should do is use gluten loose pasta rather of a traditional pasta.
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Ingredients
8 oz fettuccine pasta (for gluten loose version, use gluten loose brown rice pasta)
1/2 cup cooked pasta water (optional)
2 tablespoons olive oil
1 lb shrimp (10 huge shrimp or 20 small shrimp with out shells, deveined)
3 garlic cloves , minced
1/4 teaspoon dried basil
1/4 teaspoon paprika
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon red pepper flakes
8 oz mushrooms , thinly sliced
1 cup half and half
1/2 cup Parmesan cheese shredded
1/2 cup Mozzarella cheese shredded
Instructions
Cook pasta
Cook pasta according to package deal deal instructions. Drain. Reserve a few of pasta water. While the pasta is cooking, practice shrimp alfredo sauce as defined within the subsequent steps.
How to practice dinner shrimp
Heat a big skillet till hot - upload 2 tablespoons of olive oil and within the present day upload garlic and shrimp.
Cook on one area for about 1 minute till pink, on medium-high heat.
Flip the shrimp to the different side. Sprinkle the higher of cooked area of shrimp with dry basil, paprika, beaten red pepper flakes, and salt. Cook for one other 1-2 minutes, occasionally stirring, till shrimp is pink on equally sides.
Remove the shrimp from the skillet. If shrimp is a bit undercooked - it be OK simply due to the fact you'll preserve cooking it within the sauce.
Cook mushrooms
To the same, now empty, skillet upload sliced mushrooms. Add extra olive oil if necessary.
Cook on medium-high warmth for about 2 minutes, occasionally stirring, till mushrooms turn out to be gentle and launch juices. Sprinkle with a small quantity of salt halfway via cooking.
How to make shrimp Alfredo sauce:
To the skillet with mushrooms, upload cooked shrimp. Immediately upload 1 cup half-and-half. Bring to boil.
Add half the cheese (1/2 cup). Bring to boil, and within the present day cut back to medium-simmer. Cook, always stirring, till the cheese melts.
Gradually leap including the closing cheese (1/2 cup), whereas stirring. Do no longer upload all of the closing 1/2 cup of cheese at once. Add simply sufficient for the sauce to get creamy with out getting too thick. You may no longer use all of the closing cheese.
Remove from heat. Taste, and upload extra salt if needed.
Add cooked and tired pasta from step 1 to the skillet with shrimp and mushrooms and cream sauce. Reheat on medium heat. Stir well.
If the cream sauce is simply too thick and also you desire it thinner - upload a few pasta water in small quantities to the cream sauce (while the sauce is simmering on low-medium heat) till you attain wanted consistency.
Season with extra salt and upload extra beaten red pepper flakes and basil, if desired.