Normally, I don’t like a lot of seafood, but shrimp is one of my favorites. And mix that in a pasta with a creamy sauce and I am sold!
I found this recipe in one of my cooking magazines and knew we had to give it a try immediately. Most of the ingredients are items we usually have on hand, so we only had to grab a couple things to make this delicious meal.
The original recipe called for a green bell pepper, but we decided that a red bell pepper would be better in it. I think we also were forced into that decision because the grocery store was out of green peppers at the time.
Step by Step
As with any recipe, I start by getting my ingredients prepared. The bell pepper needs to be chopped, and the garlic minced. Then prepare the pasta according to the package. When you drain the pasta, reserve about 1/3 cup of the water.
Heat a large skillet over medium-high heat and add one tablespoon of oil to the pan.In a large bowl, combine the Cajun seasoning, flour, and shrimp and toss to coat the shrimp.
Add the bell pepper to the pan and cook for a few minutes until they are crisp-tender.
Add the shrimp and cook for another 2-3 minutes until they are done, making sure to flip the shrimp at least once while cooking.
Put the remaining oil in the skillet and add the cayenne and minced garlic. Then stir in the liquid reserved from the pasta along with the with the salt, bay leaves, and tomatoes. Bring the mixture to a boil, then reduce heat and simmer for 5 minutes or until the sauce is thickened. Discard the bay leaves and add the half-and-half, cooking until heated through.
Serve garnished with green pepper and parmesan cheese.
Recipe
Creamy Shrimp Pasta Recipe
Ingredients
- 6 oz whole-grain linguine
- 1 cup flour
- 1 1/2 tsp Cajun seasoning
- 1 lb large shrimp (peeled and deveined)
- 2 tbsp canola oil (divided)
- 1 cup red bell pepper (chopped)
- 3/8 tsp cayenne pepper
- 5 cloves garlic (minced)
- 3/4 tsp kosher salt
- 2 bay leaves
- 1 can diced tomatoes (undrained)
- 1/2 cup half-and-half
- 1 green onion (sliced)
- 1 cup parmesan cheese
Instructions
- Cook pasta according to package directions. Drain in a colander over a bowl, reserving 1/3 cup pasta cooking liquid.
- Heat a large skillet over medium-high heat.
- Combine Cajun seasoning, flour, and shrimp in a medium bowl and toss to coat.
- Add 1 tablespoon oil to the pan.
- Add the bell pepper to the pan and cook for 2-3 minutes, until crisp-tender.
- Add shrimp mixture to the pan and cook 2-3 minutes or until shrimp are done.
- Add remaining 1 tablespoon oil to the pan.
- Add cayenne pepper and garlic.
- Add reserved 1/3 cup cooking liquid, salt, bay leaves, and tomatoes, bringing it to a boil.
- Reduce heat, and simmer 5 minutes or until thickened.
- Discard bay leaves.
- Stir in half-and-half. Cook 1 minute over medium heat or until thoroughly heated.
- Sprinkle with green pepper and parmesan cheese.
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Love Shrimp & always looking for new recipes to try for the family! Thanks for sharing!
Shrimp is my favorite too! I hope your family likes this as well.
This reminds me of the spicy Cajun pasta served at Chili’s! I had some a couple of weeks ago. So glad to have found this recipe!
I think it’s similar, I just don’t like spicy foods so I don’t add much spice to mine.
It’s been so long since I’ve eaten pasta. No worries. Our annual holiday party on Christmas eve is italian themed this year.
I love pasta! What an awesome idea for a themed Christmas Eve.
This dish looks so delicious and healthy. I need to make this for my siblings because they love shrimps.
It’s one of my new favorite ways to make shrimp now!
Oh my word that looks delicious! My son will absolutely LOVE your pasta shrimp!
Going to give it a bash this week sometime!
Thanks so much!
Awesome, I hope he enjoys it!
The great thing about this recipe is that I can use all kinds of pasta noodles and shapes in it 🙂
You definitely could use any type of noodle with this that you like!
Shrimp and pasta go so well together, no matter the sauce! This one’s really lovely though, and creamy is always my favorite when it comes to pasta sauces. Thanks for the recipe!
I agree, not sure what about it works so well together, but it does!
Oh my goodness! That looks really delicious! I wanna grab it right now!!
It’s so yummy, and not too hard to make either!
I love seafood. My husband does too except for shrimp, so I am always making shrimp dishes for my lunches! This is definitely going to be one of those!
Oh, I hope you enjoy it! And I’m sure you could also make it with other seafood if you wanted to make it a dinner together.
I do think the red bell pepper would be quite a bit sweeter and would go better with the pasta. But I am curious as to how it would taste with Green Bell Pepper.
I agree, we liked it with the red pepper, but are probably going to try the green next time just to know which is better.
Oh my this recipe looks so delicious! This is a perfect recipe for Christmas day.
We will be having traditional Christmas Dinner with my family this year, but other years we have gone outside the tradition, and yes, this would be a great dinner to try for the holidays. I hadn’t even thought about that!
This looks delicious and amazing and I am definitely making this recipe! I love shrimp and I love creamy shrimp pastas! YUM.
I hope you get to make it and enjoy it as much as we do! We will be making it again very soon, it was so good!!