Shrimp Alfredo is made with a homemade velvety sauce and tossed with garlicky, succulent shrimp and served with your favorite pasta! Garnished with fresh parsley and red pepper flakes, it's a restaurant quality dish that's surprisingly easy to make at home!
Ingredients
Instructions
Cook the pasta as per the packet instructions in a large pan of salted water. Reserve a little of the cooking water to finish the sauce.
Heat the olive oil in a large frying pan, skillet or shallow casserole over a medium high heat. Once the oil is shimmering, cook the shrimp for a few minutes on each side until just pink. Towards the end of cooking, stir in half the minced garlic. Once fragrant, remove the garlicky shrimp from the pan with a slotted spoon and set aside.
Add the butter to the pan. Once it is melted and foaming, add the remaining garlic and cook for a minute until soft and fragrant.
Stir in the heavy cream and reduce the heat to medium low to simmer and wait for the pasta to finish cooking.
Stir the cooked pasta into the garlicky cream, then stir the cooked shrimp and shredded parmesan into the mixture. Stir until the sauce is thick and has coated the pasta: add cooking water if the sauce is too thick, or there is not enough of it.
Season with black pepper, and more salt if needed.
Serve in warm bowls with the parsley and red pepper flakes.
Nutrition
- Calories
- 700 kcal
- Carbohydrate Content
- 65 g
- Protein Content
- 32 g
- Fat Content
- 35 g
- Saturated Fat Content
- 18 g
- Trans Fat Content
- 0.1 g
- Cholesterol Content
- 259 mg
- Sodium Content
- 815 mg
- Fiber Content
- 3 g
- Sugar Content
- 4 g
- Unsaturated Fat Content
- 14 g
- Serving Size
- 1 serving
