Recipe RECIPE - Garlic Shrimp Pasta

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Garlic Shrimp Pasta

This Garlic Shrimp Pasta recipe creates a nice seafood dinner featuring fresh well cooked shrimp over flavorfully seasoned pasta.

Ingredients:

• 1 lb medium shrimp, deveined and tails removed
• 1 lb spaghetti noodles (more or less, depending on family size)
• 6 - 8 garlic cloves, according to personal taste, minced
• 1/4 cup butter
• Olive oil (3 drizzles)
• Italian seasoning
• Fresh ground pepper
• Red pepper flakes
• Salt
• Herbs (according to taste)
• Large skillet

Instructions:

• Boil pasta in water until tender, saving 1 cup of pasta water for use later, then drain and set aside
• While pasta is boiling, wash shrimp
• In a large skillet, melt butter over medium heat
• Add shrimp and let cook until a little pink and starting to curl
• Add garlic and cook an additional 5-7 min., then add oil and continue to stir until the shrimp is pink and curled
• Add pasta to skillet and the seasonings
• Add just enough saved pasta water so the mixture is not dry but not swimming in liquid either (1/2 the cup or all of it)
• Start with adding 1/4 of the water and increment from there
• Keep tossing all ingredients around in skillet until all is incorporated and heated through

Enjoy!

Source:

Mary Kitchen

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