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
- ½ chicken bullion cube crushed, or 1 teaspoon stock powder
- 2 tablespoons fresh parsley
- 1 teaspoon ground black pepper divided
- 1 pinch granulated sugar
- ⅔ 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 ½ 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.
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Zoie Penick says
My sister and I made this recipe for dinner today. Our family loved it! We loved it as well. The sauce was so good. The shrimp definitely added a lot of flavor to the sauce and pasta. We tore it up. Thanks for the recipe!
Tina Shah says
Delicious every time! This is a firm, mid week favorite!
Cheryl says
Made this dish this past weekend…..one of the best I have ever tasted! And it was so easy!
Debbie says
I don’t have any chicken stock. What should I do
Mo says
Made this last night for me and my parents. We had leftovers.
Made more prawns tonight and added it to the reheated pasta and sauce.
DELISH!
Thanks for the share!
Mo P.S. Pinned this recipe to My Pinterest.
Fatima says
That was absolutely delicious, fast and easy to make, my family loved it !
Thank you very much.
Becky says
Made this tonight. I did shrimp for my guys and chicken for me due to allergies. Added a little spinach to it. So good! My guys even enjoyed it!
Molly says
Fantastic recipe, absolutely delicious and so simple to make.
Best student says
OMG I LOVE YOU KARINA! NAILED IT!
Joanne says
This recipe was absolutely delicious!!! My family loved it!!!!
Sadie says
Beautiful.
Although I made my own Mariana sauce.
Can’t wait to try all your other recipes.
Many Thanks.