3 Minutes Shrimp Pasta Sauce with Garlic and Lemon Zest, Italian Style - Healthy, Easy and Quick - Deliciously amazing!
 
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A simple Shrimp Pasta Sauce, Italian style, super easy and super delicious!
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Cuisine: Italian
Serves: 2
Ingredients
  • 160 grams / 2/5 pounds Spelt pasta
  • 2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
  • 2 garlic cloves, peeled (slightly squashed with your hands)
  • 200 grams / ½ pound medium shrimp, peeled and deveined if necessary / King prawns (reserve 6 with tail for decoration)
  • 30 ml / ⅛ cup dry white wine
  • finely grated zest of 2 lemons (only the yellow part)
  • 2 tbsp Parmigiano Reggiano cheese
Optional:
  • shrimp shells
  • 2 tbsp butter
To serve:
  • 1 small bunch parsley leaves, finely chopped
  • some curly thin strips of lemon zest
Instructions
  1. Cook pasta al dente.
(Optional) If you want to add more flavour to this dish, cook the shrimp shells (and heads) in butter for 3 minutes in a small saucepan. Discard the shells, drain the flavoured butter and add it to the following pan.
  1. Put a large pan over medium-high heat.
  2. Add e.v. olive oil (optional: add also the flavoured shrimp butter), garlic cloves and shrimps and stir until the shrimps are halfway cooked (1 minute).
  3. Sprinkle with white wine and let the alcohol evaporate.
  4. Remove from heat, discard the garlic cloves, add the finely grated lemon zest, stir a bit, add Parmigiano cheese and mix very well.
  5. Leave apart the 6 shrimps with tail for decoration.
  6. Add cooked pasta to the pan, give a stir and serve immediately.
  7. Decorate every pasta dish by sprinkling over some chopped parsley, some curly strips of lemon zest and put the cooked shrimps with tail in the middle or as you prefer.
Recipe by Ilaria's Perfect Recipes at https://www.ilariasperfectrecipes.com/healthy-easy-quick-shrimp-pasta-sauce-garlic-wine-lemon-italian/