Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, lemon spaghetti with shrimp. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Lemon Spaghetti with Shrimp is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals in the world. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions every day. Lemon Spaghetti with Shrimp is something that I have loved my entire life. They are nice and they look wonderful.
Season with the salt and pepper; stir in the basil. The lemon and basil worked perfectly with the shrimp and pasta. I would have given it five stars, but, I think the ingredient ratio was off for the amount of pasta used.
To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook lemon spaghetti with shrimp using 12 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Lemon Spaghetti with Shrimp:
- Take 1 T evoo
- Prepare 3/4 pound lg shrimp, peeled and deveined
- Prepare 1/4 t salt & fresh ground pepper (for seasoning shrimp)
- Get 1 pound spaghetti (i use gluten free yam starch noodles)
- Prepare 1/2 t salt, plus more for the pasta water
- Prepare 2/3 c evoo
- Take 2/3 c freshly grated parmesan cheese
- Make ready 1 T lemon zest(about 1 lg lemon)
- Prepare 1/2 c fresh lemon juice (about 2 lg lemons)
- Get 1/4 t ground pepper
- Make ready 1 \3 c chopped fresh basil
- Get 2 T capers, she has a process to roast these. I used them raw
Meanwhile, in a large heavy bottomed skillet over medium-high heat, heat oil. Add shrimp and season with ¾ teaspoon salt and ½ teaspoon pepper. Fresh shrimp gets cooked in a buttery lemon garlic sauce and gets tossed in fresh parmesan cheese and pasta. It will become a new favorite!
Instructions to make Lemon Spaghetti with Shrimp:
- Season shrimp with s&p. Sautee in oo heated to med. 2-3 mins per side in single layer. Cook until no longer gray and translucent
- Cook the pasta in the very salted water in very large pot until a la dente or to your liking or follow directions on box. You will save 1 cup of pasta water before you drain
- Whisk olive oil, parm cheese,
- Lemon zest and juice in lg bowl, blend. Toss the shrimp and the pasta into sauce and add reserved pasta water 1/4 cup at a time to moisten, and toss to get to desired sauce consistency
- Season with salt and pepper, mix in basil and capers
- Sprinkle with extra parm cheese (optional) Mine verses theirs. I think mine looks better
I love cooking shrimp because it cooks up so fast and it is such a crowd pleaser! (Pasta is usually only rinsed if it is to be used in a salad.) Dried pasta can be stored in an airtight container in a cool, dark place and it will keep almost indefinitely. Cook the pasta in a large pot of salted boiling water until al dente. This dish features succulent jumbo shrimps which have been marinated in a few simple ingredients. Aside from the shrimp and spaghetti, all you'll need are extra virgin olive oil, lemon zest, minced garlic and lots of parsley. Lemon pasta with shrimp, capers, garlic and some really great olive oil is just what we all need right now.
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