Steps to Prepare Lemon Spaghetti with Shrimp

Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, lemon spaghetti with shrimp. One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Lemon Spaghetti with Shrimp is one of the most favored of current trending meals on earth. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Lemon Spaghetti with Shrimp is something that I have loved my entire life.

Season with the salt and pepper; stir in the basil. The lemon and basil worked perfectly with the shrimp and pasta. I would have given it five stars, but, I think the ingredient ratio was off for the amount of pasta used.

Guide to Prepare Lemon Spaghetti with Shrimp

To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have lemon spaghetti with shrimp using 12 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

Ingredients

The ingredients needed to make Lemon Spaghetti with Shrimp:

1. Get 1 T evoo
2. Get 3/4 pound lg shrimp, peeled and deveined
3. Take 1/4 t salt & fresh ground pepper (for seasoning shrimp)
4. Make ready 1 pound spaghetti (i use gluten free yam starch noodles)
5. Get 1/2 t salt, plus more for the pasta water
6. Make ready 2/3 c evoo
7. Make ready 2/3 c freshly grated parmesan cheese
8. Take 1 T lemon zest(about 1 lg lemon)
9. Take 1/2 c fresh lemon juice (about 2 lg lemons)
10. Take 1/4 t ground pepper
11. Get 1 \3 c chopped fresh basil
12. Prepare 2 T capers, she has a process to roast these. I used them raw

Combine lemon zest and juice in a small saucepan over medium heat and bring to a simmer. Sprinkle in parsley and stir in butter until melted. Add shrimp to the lemon sauce. Mix pasta, shrimp, sauce, and Parmesan cheese together in a large serving bowl. (Pasta is usually only rinsed if it is to be used in a salad.) Dried pasta can be stored in an airtight container in a cool, dark place and it will keep almost indefinitely.

Instructions

Instructions to make Lemon Spaghetti with Shrimp:

1. Season shrimp with s&p. Sautee in oo heated to med. 2-3 mins per side in single layer. Cook until no longer gray and translucent
2. Cook the pasta in the very salted water in very large pot until a la dente or to your liking or follow directions on box. You will save 1 cup of pasta water before you drain
3. Whisk olive oil, parm cheese,
4. Lemon zest and juice in lg bowl, blend. Toss the shrimp and the pasta into sauce and add reserved pasta water 1/4 cup at a time to moisten, and toss to get to desired sauce consistency
5. Season with salt and pepper, mix in basil and capers
6. Sprinkle with extra parm cheese (optional) Mine verses theirs. I think mine looks better

Drain the pasta, reserving some of the cooking liquid. Creamy lemon garlic shrimp pasta is so easy but such a showstopper recipe. The sauce and pasta cooks at the same time for minimum effort. Full recipe + amounts can be found in the recipe card below. Meanwhile, melt the butter and olive oil in a large skillet over medium-low heat.

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