When it comes to Italy, the first thing that comes to mind is pasta. The Italians themselves call them "pasta". It is not for nothing that pasta has won such love in this country, and in many others. This product is amazingly combined with a wide variety of ingredients: cheese, meat, garlic, tomatoes, zucchini, mushrooms, eggs, seafood.
Connoisseurs of culinary delights, real gourmets will definitely like shrimp paste.
Marine life gives the dish a special aroma and delicious taste. The main thing is to choose high-quality products for cooking and process them correctly.
To choose the right shrimp, you need to carefully examine the product. Usually this is not difficult, they are sold in transparent packaging or by weight. There should be no pieces of ice or snow in the bag. Let's admit a slight icy coating on each individual. The shrimp should not stick together. Be sure to pay attention to the integrity of the carcasses, legs and tail must be clearly defined.
Shrimp can be purchased peeled and ready to eat. This is the easiest option, when you do not need to fiddle with cleaning and heat treatment.
If you had to buy unpeeled shrimp, you will have to deal with them closely. Two cleaning methods can be used:
Both raw and boiled shrimp can be peeled in one versatile way.
Experienced cooks recommend sprinkling the shrimp with plenty of salt immediately after defrosting and letting it sit for a minute. Then rinse with cold water and proceed to cleaning. Salt is believed to preserve the flavor and shape of the food.
Recipe number 1. The most exquisite and delicate taste is the pasta with shrimps in a creamy cheese sauce.
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When all the products are prepared, you can start creating a culinary masterpiece.
Recipe number 2. An interesting and unusual composition of pasta with shrimps and mushrooms will delight any gourmet.
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You can start preparing the pasta and the filling at the same time.
Do not be afraid to experiment in the process of making pasta with sauces. You can always try adding your own flavor to the recipe. Perhaps, thanks to bold and creative solutions, a new culinary work will be born that will amaze the most sophisticated gourmets!
Spaghetti with shrimps- This is an incredibly tasty dish, which, according to one of the legends, was invented by an Italian chef for his beloved. Today it is cooked all over the world.
Spaghetti with shrimps has been cooked for a long time and chefs have come up with many different recipes with a variety of ingredients. The cooking process itself is extremely simple and allows you to give free rein to your imagination and, based on the recipes we offer, come up with your own one of those products that you like or are more available.
To cook spaghetti with shrimps in a creamy sauce, you will need the following products:
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As you can see, this dish requires the simplest ingredients and is not difficult to prepare.
As in the previous recipe, this one allows the use of pasta of any type, but in order not to deviate from the classics, take the premium spaghetti.
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To make Shrimp Pasta in Creamy Cheese Sauce, you will need the following ingredients:
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The whole dish is almost ready and all that remains is to divide it into portions and sprinkle with cheese.
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Recipe for a spicy shrimp sauce for spaghetti, which is prepared with lemon juice and zest. Red pepper is used for pungency, its amount can be reduced.
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In general, any cheese can be used for shrimp spaghetti and creamy sauce, but a true Italian dish is made with parmesan.
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Seafood turns out to be unusually fragrant if stewed a little in wine. Here's a simple onion-flavored sauce recipe.
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Recipe for very bright and delicious spaghetti with shrimps in a creamy sauce, for which you will certainly need cherry tomatoes. With large tomatoes, nothing will work.
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This sauce is made with tomatoes. Tomatoes should be ripe, fleshy, not sour. The fat content of the cream is arbitrary.
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You can make cauliflower sauce in a similar way, but boil it for two minutes more. Broccoli inflorescences can be taken frozen or fresh, in the first version they are immediately put into boiling water.
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Black spaghetti and other black pasta, despite its slightly frightening appearance, is a very interesting variety of Italian pasta! The exotic black color is achieved by adding sea cuttlefish ink to the dough, which gives the paste a light shrimp flavor, which is why it is usually combined with fish and seafood. If you are preparing black spaghetti for the first time and want not to be mistaken with the choice of sauce, I suggest this very simple pasta recipe with shrimps, garlic, lemon juice and parsley, this is a classic of Mediterranean cuisine - the taste is incomparable!
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Do you remember how it all began 20 years ago, when plump ice cream "commas" began to appear in stores, and we learned that this is shrimp?
Delicious shrimp could be baked, boiled, fried, or consumed immediately by simply holding it in very hot water. However, this turned out to be not enough for us, which is fair, and we began to combine shrimp with vegetables, pasta and rice in one dish. And also - be sure to serve shrimp with some kind of sauce, simple or delicious. So, step by step, we discovered Italian cuisine. Today I offer one of the quickest and most affordable recipe for making pasta with shrimp in a creamy sauce.
Cooking time: 30 minutes. Yield: 2 servings.
Usually spaghetti is used for this dish, but I consider my choice - Pasta Mafalde - quite a worthy substitute: long wavy pasta looks great in the same plate with shrimps.
Boil the al dente pasta in boiling, lightly salted water, drain in a colander and cover. The cooking time is indicated on the package - 8 minutes.
Defrost the shrimp. As a general rule, all frozen foods must defrost themselves. But when we are in a hurry, we want to do it immediately. And if you really choose a way to quickly defrost, choose water (some do it directly in the pan). Firstly, the product still needs to be washed, and secondly, the shrimp will quickly lose all their "ice" under water. Just remember to pat dry them with paper towels.
Heat a frying pan, melt the butter and olive oil in it. Peel and cut a clove of garlic into 2-3 pieces. When the garlic begins to give off its flavor, send the shrimp to the pan. Cook for 2-3 minutes, stirring constantly.
Remove the chunks of garlic from the pan and top the fried shrimp with heavy cream or thick sour cream and sprinkle with finely chopped dill. Cook for another 2-3 minutes. Average fire.
Add the previously boiled pasta to the finished shrimp, mix thoroughly and gently, pepper and lightly salt, simmer together for another 1-2 minutes.
Spread the shrimp pasta in a creamy sauce in portions and serve immediately. Sprinkle with grated cheese on top of each serving.
Ingredients for "Shrimp Pasta in Creamy Parmesan Sauce"
Time for preparing: 25 minutes.
Product cost on 05/13/17: 1230 rub.
Calorie content per 100g: 182 kcal or 762 kJ
BZHU per 100g: Proteins - 8.6 g, Fats - 16.7 g, Carbohydrates - 9.1 g
In 2012, a year before the start of macaromania, I tasted shrimp pasta for the first time in an Italian restaurant. Then I really liked the combination of shrimp, creamy sauce and spinach, but upset the cost in the check. Once again I realized that you have to pay for the pleasure.
Now that your hand is full of pasta recipes, repeating restaurant dishes in your kitchen is not a problem. So pasta with shrimps in a creamy sauce is easy to cook at home. I will show you step by step how to make this recipe.
Ready-made pasta with shrimps in a creamy sauce and spinach
30 minutes
take cooking
1200 rubles
will go to buy ingredients
(if you take king or tiger prawns)
3 servings
will be obtained from the set of products in the recipe
From kitchen utensils, you will need a deep frying pan with a lid, a grater, kitchen tongs or a spaghetti spoon, or a fork.
We will cook the creamy sauce from milkrather than cream or sour cream. The fatter milk you buy, the creamier the taste will be.
Cream and sour cream will work too. I will write the proportions of the addition at the end of the recipe.
Creamy sauce and pasta nests
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I want to savor the dish. It's awesome. A combination of juicy shrimp and a light creamy sauce, a delicate aroma of garlic and fresh spinach, are revealed in a delicate creamy paste. All this comes together in an amazing range of tastes.
There are few ingredients in the recipe. The main flavoring role is played by shrimp, milk and garlic. Parmesan and spinach play a supporting role.
The main disadvantage of the recipe is the cost. It is rare that a dish in a selection of pasta is overloaded.
But the recipe is worth the money. Try to cook. Questions will disappear when the fork with the shrimp and pasta is on the tongue.
Nutritional value of the recipe (BZHU) *:
Mass of ingredients: 1200 g
Detailed BJU and calorie content
Ingredient | Weight in the recipe, g | Nutritional value of the number of grams of an ingredient in a recipe | ||
Proteins, g | Carbohydrates, g | Fat, g | ||
Pasta nest (festonate) | 240 | 26 | 169 | 3 |
300 | 40 | 7 | 3 | |
100 | 25 | 0 | 28 | |
Whole milk 4.5% | 400 | 10 | 18 | 18 |
Fresh spinach | 75 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
15 | 0 | 0 | 15 | |
Butter mj. 82.5% | 50 | 0 | 0 | 41 |
Garlic | 15 | 1 | 5 | 0 |
Total | 1195 | 103 | 201 | 109 |
Ingredient | Total energy the value of the number of grams of an ingredient in a recipe | |
Calorie content, kcal | Energy value, kJ | |
Pasta nest (festonate) | 811 | 3396 |
Peeled and frozen king prawns | 215 | 908 |
Cheese "Reggianito Galbani", 32% | 352 | 1461 |
Whole milk 4.5% | 264 | 1105 |
Fresh spinach | 12 | 49 |
Extra Virgin olive oil, ml | 135 | 565 |
Butter mj. 82.5% | 374 | 1566 |
Garlic | 22 | 94 |
Total | 2185 | 9142 |
There is no definite classic Italian recipe for making shrimp pasta. Chefs prepare seafood in different ways: fried, boiled, baked. Combine with pasta, rice, vegetables or fruits. Enhance aroma and taste with hot, spicy or light seasonings. Prepared with red, white sauces or in their own juice. Mediterranean cuisine is filled with culinary experimentation with seafood.
Choose shrimp that are individually wrapped in production. Supermarkets offer frozen shrimp in clear or translucent packaging and in bulk trays. Do not consider the latter option, it is not clear where these shrimps come from and how long they have been on the counter.
Don't pay for water. Make sure there is little ice on the carcasses. Check that the shells are intact and not stick together.
Use large tiger or king prawns for this recipe. It is better that they are not pre-cooked. This will give you more seafood flavor and aroma in the finished dish.
At cost. I have it took 740 rubles for shrimp, which is 2/3 of the cost of recipe products. Moreover, there were more expensive options nearby.
Turns out that 1 servingfrom the recipe I suggest will cost 400 rubles... The total number of servings will turn out to be 3. Expensive, but I am sure that in a restaurant such a pasta with king or tiger prawns in a creamy sauce will cost 2-3 times more.
If the budget is limited, take smaller crustaceans, this will save a few hundred rubles.
Please note that the weight indicated on the packaging will differ from the actual weight of the product. So after defrosting my shrimps lost 35%, from 500g to 328g.
Fresh, not boiled fry shrimp for 30-40 seconds on each side... Their meat will be soft, juicy and slightly fried. And if you fry with butter in a hot frying pan, you get a crispy crust.
Do not fry the shrimp for a long time... Get the rubber and be disappointed.
Friends, how do you prepare creamy pasta? What seafood do you add to the recipe: shrimp, squid, salmon fillet, salmon or something else? Maybe you have your secret ingredient or you know how to make pasta sauce magical and delicious.
Shrimp pasta - general principles and methods of preparation
For most people, the word pasta is associated with Italy and its famous spaghetti. This is not any pasta bought by weight, or even an ordinary long straw! The "correct" pasta simply must consist of durum wheat. Such pasta is always sold in packaging, it does not need rinsing and does not take a long time to boil.
Spaghetti, of course, is a hearty and tasty delicacy, but serving the dish "naked" is somehow boring and unacceptable. That is why there are thousands of recipes for sauces for Italian pasta, which light a new "light" in the dish. Depending on the dressing, the taste of the pasta can be changed beyond recognition. Spaghetti are versatile, they are combined with literally all the ingredients. They also found their combinations with shrimps.
To make shrimp pasta, the pasta and shrimp are boiled separately and then combined. Often, marine life is fried and mixed with a creamy sauce. Whichever method of heat treatment you choose, remember one thing - shrimp "do not like" long exposure to high temperatures. The more you boil them, the tighter and less appetizing their meat becomes. As practice shows, the ideal cooking time varies from 3 to 7 minutes, depending on the size of the individuals.
Shrimp pasta - food preparation
If everything is simple with spaghetti - I made sure of the authenticity (you should look at the composition on the package), bought and boiled according to the instructions, then you will have to tinker a little with the shrimps, provided that they were not originally purchased in a peeled state (such shrimps are already ready to eat) ... So, if the shrimp is still not processed, then you need to peel them, gut them, remove the head, shell and inner lining film, and then rinse them in running water.
Now our crustaceans are ready for the next step - cooking. By the way, in some cases, the inner film can be removed only after boiling. If the shrimp needs to be fried, and the notorious film does not want to get away, first pour over them with boiling water. After such manipulation, the shrimp will literally "come out of the skin" by themselves.
Shrimp pasta - the best recipes
Recipe 1: Creamy Shrimp Pasta
King prawns, amazing creamy sauce, tender parmesan, stunning aroma of basil and garlic - all this makes the spaghetti simply amazing in taste. By the way, you can experiment with pasta. For example, instead of long spaghetti, buy farfalle pasta (in the form of bows) - it will turn out not only delicious, but also beautiful.
Ingredients:
- 450 gr. spaghetti
- peeled shrimps 350 gr.
- heavy cream (more than 30%) - 200 gr.
- 200 gr. dense tomatoes
- two to three cloves of garlic
- salt to taste
- pepper to taste
- basil to taste
- parmesan to taste (about 50-70 gr.)
- butter (can be replaced with vegetable)
Cooking method:
1. Cut medium-sized tomatoes into large pieces (if you take cherry tomatoes, it is enough to cut them in half).
2. Heat a frying pan with butter (vegetable or butter), spread the shrimp. Add salt, pepper (or spices) and fry them for 3-4 minutes, stirring constantly.
3. Next, put the chopped tomatoes into the container, put the garlic through a press and hold for about three minutes. Next, throw in the basil and pour in the cream. We keep the dish on fire for about three to four minutes. Do not bring to a boil.
4. According to the instructions, boil the pasta, put it on a dish and pour it over with a slightly cooled and thickened shrimp sauce with cream. Sprinkle with finely grated Parmesan on top.
Recipe 2: Pasta with shrimps in a spicy sauce
Ingredients such as garlic, sprigs of mint, parsley leaves and the "nail" of the sauce - white wine - add spicy notes to the dish. In addition, it is necessary to boil the vegetable broth in advance. We only need half a glass of it, but the taste of the dish changes dramatically. Try it!
Ingredients:
- 250 gr. shrimp
- 250 gr. small tomatoes
- 200 gr. macaroni
- one clove of garlic
- a couple of sprigs of mint
- olive oil - about three tablespoons
- 100 ml of good white wine
- 100 ml fresh broth
- salt, pepper to taste
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1. Peel the shrimp in a standard way. Cut the tomatoes in half. Cut the garlic into thin rings. Finely chop the required greens. We put the water to boil over the pasta, and it is well salted.
2. We put a container for frying on the fire, ignite, add olive oil. Throw in the garlic and fry so that the oil is saturated with its taste and aroma. Then take out the garlic.
3. In the same oil, fry the peeled shrimps for about four minutes. Then we put them aside. Add tomatoes, broth, wine to the oil remaining after shrimp. Bring the mixture to a boil, not forgetting to pepper, salt and season with some greens. Turn off the stove, mix the sauce with shrimp.
4. The water in the pot has boiled. Boil the spaghetti according to the instructions on the package (about 6-8 minutes). We put them in a colander, and then in a pan with spicy sauce. Add the remaining herbs and insist on low heat for about ten minutes, until the spaghetti is soaked in the spicy sauce.
Recipe 3: Shrimp and Green Bean Pasta
Such a simple dish is prepared very simply and quickly. The not long-awaited result is just wonderful. Beans go very well with pasta and shrimp. Frozen green beans for a dish can be purchased at almost any food outlet, regardless of the season.
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- 250 gr. spaghetti
- 250 gr. peeled shrimp
- one tablespoon of lemon juice
- butter
- one onion
- a couple of garlic cloves
- two cups fresh frozen beans
- two tables. tablespoons of apple cider or white vinegar
- two tables. soy sauce
- salt, pepper to taste
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1. According to the instructions, boil the spaghetti, put it in a colander, and then put it in a dish, mixing with butter.
2. Mix the lemon juice with pepper, chopped garlic and coat the peeled shrimp with marinade. Let's leave them alone for now. Next, fry the green beans in vegetable oil. Fry the onion and garlic separately until lacquered.
3. Add seasonings and vinegar to half-cooked beans. We bring it to readiness. Then mix with onion, garlic, soy sauce. In the pan where the onions and garlic were fried, fry the marinated shrimps for about four minutes.
Shrimp pasta - useful tips from experienced chefs
- To make the "correct" pasta, you should not buy pasta by weight, because it is difficult to determine by eye what kind of flour they are made of. In addition, the pasta cooking times indicated on the packaging must be observed. It is better not to cook real spaghetti than to cook it;
- Fresh shrimp should have a curled tail, the color of their head, as a rule, varies from a light shade to slightly greenish (but not gray and black). The presence of a large layer of ice covering the shrimp should alert you. It is not recommended to acquire such crustaceans.