How To Make Creamy Shrimp Pasta Recipe |30 Minutes Dinner Ideas

heavy cream

🥗Healthier: Greek yogurt

💰Cheaper: milk + cornstarch

Greek yogurt reduces calories while maintaining creaminess

parmesan cheese

🥗Healthier: nutritional yeast

💰Cheaper: grated pecorino

Nutritional yeast is lower in fat and adds a cheesy flavor

Season the washed and deveined shrimp with 1 teaspoon of Orbeez seasoning, 1 tablespoon of garlic powder, 1 teaspoon of black pepper, 1 teaspoon of Old Bay seasoning, and 1 tablespoon of paprika. Combine all the seasonings together.

Boil water in a pot, adding salt until it tastes like the ocean. Wait for the water to reach a rapid boil before adding the pen pasta.

Heat oil in a pan and add the seasoned shrimp. Cook for about 4 minutes until the shrimp turns pink. Remove the shrimp from the pan after cooking.

Once the water is boiling, add the pen pasta to the pot.

In the same pan used for the shrimp, add 1 tablespoon of salted butter, 1/2 chopped onion, and 2 chopped garlic cloves. Saute until the onion is translucent.

Add 1.473 milliliters of heavy cream to the pan and reduce the heat to low. Let the cream simmer.

Stir in 1 tablespoon of Body Complete seasoning, 1 teaspoon of black pepper, and 1 teaspoon of parsley. Optionally, add fresh parsley.

Add freshly shaved parmesan cheese to the sauce and let it simmer until thickened.

Once the pasta is cooked al dente, drain and add it to the creamy sauce, mixing well to coat the pasta.

Return the cooked shrimp to the pot, mixing it into the creamy pasta. Taste and adjust seasoning with salt, pepper, and a pinch of crushed red pepper as desired.

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