Garlic Shrimp Pasta

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Delicious, homemade garlic butter shrimp over your favorite pasta. Serve it up using our homemade garlic butter sauce and dig right in!

Make sure that make your very own Garlic Butter Sauce for this recipe. Or why not try some Buttery Old Bay Steamed Shrimp instead?

Garlic Shrimp Pasta

Shrimp is an ingredient that a lot of people struggle to use properly, usually because shrimp has the tendency to instantly turn tough and chewy if you aren’t being careful enough.

This recipe, however, should serve as a great introduction for those that aren’t that experienced with cooking shrimp, as it has such a short cooking time.

You can be eating in only 10 minutes from starting this recipe, which not only makes it a great weeknight meal but also makes it very difficult to accidentally overcook your shrimp.                 

Garlic Shrimp Pasta Ingredients

Make sure you look at the recipe card at the very bottom for the exact amounts so that you know exactly what to buy for this recipe.

• Homemade garlic butter sauce

• Shrimp, medium sized, peeled and deveined

• Linguini, or whatever your favorite pasta is

• Fresh parsley and lemon wedges to garnish                                                                       

How To Make Garlic Shrimp Pasta

• Prepare your garlic butter sauce

• In a large pot, cook your pasta until it is just al dente, following the cooking instructions on the packet

• In a separate skillet, cook the shrimp in 2 tablespoons of butter until pink, about 3 minutes

• Once cooked, remove and set aside

• Toss the pasta and the shrimp in the homemade garlic butter sauce, squeeze the lemon over the top and garnish with the parsley and then serve

How To Cook Your Shrimp Perfectly

Cooking shrimp is always difficult, especially for those that aren’t particularly experienced with cooking with seafood.

If you leave your shrimp in the pan for even a minute longer than you should, you will find that it becomes chewy in a slightly unpleasant way.

To avoid this, you want to make sure that every other part of this recipe is ready and waiting before you start cooking the shrimp.

Make sure your pasta is already cooked and drained, and you have everything you need, including the bowls and the silverware, before the shrimp touches the pan.

If you start cooking your shrimp but then realize that you need to quickly finish the pasta or get something ready, you will find yourself accidentally overcooking your shrimp as it sits there. Even the carryover heat after taking it out of the pan could be enough to end up with that weird pink shrimp that everyone hates.

The shrimp needs to be almost the last thing you do in preparing for dinner; done right, the shrimp should come out perfectly cooked, juicy, and tender.

What Kind Of Pasta Is Best For This Recipe?

There are loads of different types of pasta available for you to choose from to use in this recipe. You could use the linguini recommended here in this recipe or any other type of straight pasta like spaghetti.

However, feel free to use more specifically shaped pasta types, like penne or something else, if that is your preference.

Those types of shapes are great for hanging onto sauce as well and can really help coat every bite with garlicky sauce.   

It doesn’t really matter what type of pasta you choose to use for this recipe because the obvious star of the show is going to be the garlic butter sauce.

However, for a little bit more flavor in every bite, try and use fresh egg pasta if you can. Whether you make it yourself or buy it from the store, egg pasta is going to taste just that little bit more intense, fresh, and delicious.

Plus, it cooks super quick, so it can be cooked and ready almost before your shrimp is even finished cooking!

Looking for more delicious Pasta recipes? Try these out:

• Penne Pasta with Homemade Meat Sauce

• How to Make Instant Pot Spaghetti

• Haluski – Fried Cabbage and Noodles

Happy Cooking

Love,

Karlynn

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