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Linguini pasta gets a delicious make over with this 15-Minute Creamy Tomato Garlic Butter Shrimp! A quick and easy flavourful weeknight or weekend dinner that comes together in minutes!
15-Minute Creamy Tomato Garlic Butter Shrimp… Only 15 minutes? How much easier could a recipe get?!
This is one favour packed shrimp! Even my super picky 7 year old loved this, which is saying A LOT.
If you’re looking for a way to change up your pasta game — this is it. Shrimp first gets sautéed in buttery garlic and a hint of basil, before being smothered in a creamy marinara sauce (or passata for us over here), with linguini, fettuccine, or your pasta of choice mixed through with a generous amount of parmesan cheese. Good…huh?
My house has become a crazy town. Videos flying left, right and centre. Children flying centre, right and left. Food flowing out of our ears. Daily supermarket runs happening in two’s or three’s because chemo brain equals colander brain (ie. many holes in it = thoughts drain out easily). And one pan meals, like these, saving my life.
You would think with all of the food being cooked in here, we wouldn’t need to come up with dinners… BUUUHT there are enough of us here to start a soccer team. Or, that’s what it feels like with the noise reaching critical levels.
All that chaos aside, I sat myself down last week with a glass of wine (may have been over-sized), and thoroughly enjoyed every creamy, tomato-ey, pasta/shrimp filled moment.
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Creamy Tomato Garlic Butter Shrimp
Ingredients
- 10 ounces linguini dry weight, or any pasta
- 1 yellow onion medium, diced
- 2 tablespoons butter or olive oil
- 6 cloves garlic minced
- 1 pound raw jumbo shrimp prawns, peeled and deveined
- 2 teaspoons dried basil
- 1 teaspoon salt divided
- 1 passata or marinara sauce
- 1/2 chicken bullion cube crushed, or 1 teaspoon stock powder
- 2 tablespoons fresh parsley
- 1 teaspoon ground black pepper divided
- 1 pinch granulated sugar
- 2/3 cup milk or half and half or heavy cream
- 1 handful parmesan cheese grated, to serve
- 1 pinch fresh parsley to serve
Instructions
- Cook pasta al dente according to package instructions. Drain and set aside. (While pasta is boiling, prepare shrimp sauce.)
- Heat the butter in a large skillet or pan over medium heat. Add the onion and fry until transparent. Stir in the garlic and fry until fragrant (about 30 seconds), then add in the shrimp with the basil and 1/2 teaspoon salt. Sauté shrimp for 2 minutes on one side; flip and continue to sauté on the other side for a further minute.
- Quickly add in the sauce, crushed bullion (or stock powder), parsley, pepper sugar and remaining salt. Allow the sauce to heat through for another minute before adding the milk (or cream). Continue cooking for a further minute or until the shrimp are cooked through.
- Once the pasta is cooked and drained, stir it through the creamy tomato sauce; toss until combined. Season with extra salt if desired.
Notes
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
Can I make this recipe without adding milk or cream?
Sure you can Roella, it won’t be as creamy though.
We had a last minute dinner guest, and shrimp in our fridge, so tried this very easy and quick recipe, and it did not disappoint!
So delicious! Will def make again…thanks for the recipe!
This was delicious and fairly simple to make! I was really pleased with how flavorful the sauce is and well it sticks to the pasta. Everyone in my family liked it, including my 3 year old.
Thank you Karina! This is a Great, Fast, and Delicious recipe. Dinner was a hit!
We love love love it❣️
I just made this and the bf had two plates and the my son ate his whole plate.. It’s got a lil spice for anyone super sensitive. So good. I won dinner tonight!!
This dish was excellent – flavor similar to penne vodka pasta – fine dining quality – will definitively serve to company. Because it is all blended together at the end, I believe it would be best using a small pasta noodle like farfalle. Used butter, prawns, Rao pasta sauce, half a bullion cube, half and half.
This recipe was absolutely amazing! We desperately wanted to make something different and this recipe didn’t disappoint! Delicious!!