Appetizing shrimp pasta is a dish that you can try not only in an expensive restaurant. If desired, it can easily be cooked at home. The main thing is to choose high-quality meaty shrimp and choose the right sauce.

Shrimp pasta in cream sauce

Ingredients: 270 g fettuccine paste, 460 g unpeeled shrimp, half a glass of medium-fat cream, 2 teaspoons freshly squeezed lemon juice, a clove of garlic, salt, olive oil.

  1. Pasta is sent to salt boiling water. It is cooked exactly 8 minutes after boiling again. Pasta should be left slightly undercooked so that they are finally cooked in the process of absorbing hot sauce and do not turn into porridge.
  2. Shrimps are thawed, boiled for 3-4 minutes in boiling water and cleaned. Then, in olive oil, large pieces of garlic are first fried, and then seafood in it. Shrimps are cooked for a couple of minutes, until they curl into rings.
  3. For the sauce, the cream is mixed with lemon juice and sent to the fire. After heating and stirring, they curl up, but you should not worry. Soon, the creamy mixture turns into a mouth-watering smooth sauce. You can also add a little crushed garlic to your taste.
  4. Ready pasta is poured with ready-made sauce. Seafood is laid out for them.

Shrimp pasta in a creamy sauce served with grated cheese and a pinch of oregano.

Squid Recipe

Ingredients: a pound of pasta, 380 g of peeled squid, 220 g of shrimp, shallots (1 pc.), 2 tbsp. tablespoons of fish broth, 2 garlic cloves, salt, 2 tbsp. tablespoons of lemon juice, a full glass of medium-fat cream, Provence herbs. How to cook pasta with shrimp and squid is described below.

  1. Freshly frozen shrimps are dipped in salted boiling water for a couple of minutes, cooled and cleaned. Sliced ​​squid rings are sent to these seafood. The mass is salted and sprinkled with lemon juice. Seafood will marinate for 12-14 minutes.
  2. The paste is boiled to an aldente state. It usually takes 7-8 minutes after boiling the liquid.
  3. Onions and garlic are finely chopped and fried in oil until golden.
  4. Marinated seafood is fried in a separate skillet. To the same dishes goes frying from the last step, broth, cream, spices. Stew the mass until the squid is ready.
  5. Semi-prepared pasta is laid out for seafood. Together they languish in the pan for a couple of minutes.

Finished meal is decorated with finely chopped greens.

How to cook pasta with seafood in tomato sauce?

Ingredients: 270 g of a seafood cocktail, 1.5 cups of medium-fat cream, 270 g of curly paste, olive oil, a full glass of tomato puree, fresh garlic to taste, salt.

  1. Pasta is boiled in salt water. It should turn out to be slightly unprepared.
  2. First, garlic is fried in olive oil, then its pieces are discarded. On the remaining fat, a previously thawed sea cocktail is prepared. Just a couple of minutes of frying.
  3. Tomato puree is poured into the pan. When the liquid evaporates a little, you can add cream to the products. The mass is salted and brought to a boil.
  4. A few minutes before cooking, pasta is sent to the pan.

Shrimp paste in tomato sauce is served hot.

With shrimp and mussels

Ingredients: 170 grams of pasta, 210 grams of peeled mussel, as many small shrimps, a bunch of parsley, salt, 90 ml of white wine (obligatory dry), 2 cloves of garlic, 8 cherry tomatoes, olive oil, a mixture of peppers, 2 sprigs of rosemary.

  1. Pasta is sent to boiling water and boiled in time for two minutes less than indicated on the package.
  2. In olive oil, whole cloves of garlic are fried, as well as halves of cherry. When the garlic is browned and gives away its aroma, peeled defrosted shrimps without tails and mussels are sent to the pan. The mass is roasted for 3-4 minutes.
  3. Finely chopped all the greens. She and the wine go to the pan. The ingredients languish together.
  4. Pasta is transferred to the pan. Until the dishes are ready, it remains to hold it on the fire for 3-4 minutes.

The resulting pasta with seafood goes well with white wine.

With mushrooms

Ingredients: 360 g of spaghetti, 170 g of thawed peeled shrimp, 160 g of mushrooms, a full glass of fat cream, 80 g of hard cheese, 60 g of butter, salt, 4 teeth. garlic, black ground pepper.

  1. Mushrooms are randomly chopped. It is best to take fresh champignons. Freshly peeled garlic is chopped into a small cube.
  2. The cheese is rubbed on a fine grater.
  3. Shrimp and garlic are fried together in half the butter.
  4. The remaining oil and mushrooms are added to the pan. Together, the ingredients are cooked for another 3-4 minutes.
  5. At this time, spaghetti are being cooked.
  6. It remains to add cream, salt and cheese to the shrimp. After mixing, simmer the sauce until thickened.

It remains to mix the fill with the finished spaghetti.

In creamy garlic sauce

Ingredients: 230 g of paste, 260 g of shrimp, salt, a full glass of very fat cream, Provencal herbs to taste, 4-5 cloves of fresh garlic, small onion, 40 g of butter.

  1. The first thing in salt water is boiled pasta. It must be cooked two minutes less than recommended on the package.
  2. Chopped garlic and mini onion cubes are fried in butter. They are prepared to a golden hue.
  3. Shrimps are cleaned, get rid of heads, tails and shells. Seafood goes to onions and garlic. Together, the foods are fried for a couple of minutes. Products must be browned.
  4. Warmed cream is poured into the pan, salt and Provence herbs are added. After boiling, the creamy mass is left on fire for only a minute.
  5. It remains to immerse half-prepared pasta in a hot sauce.

Shrimp paste in a creamy garlic sauce is served on the table with small parmesan chips.

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