6 Ingredient Shrimp Alfredo Pasta: Better than the Restaurant’s and ready in 20 mins!!

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Ingredients
1 pound (500g) peeled and deveined shrimp
butter
6 garlic cloves, grated
2-3 cups of heavy whipping cream
salt, to taste
crushed red pepper flakes (optional)
freshly cracked black pepper, to taste
6 oz (170g) shredded Parmesan cheese or Graviera (Greek cheese)
1 pound pasta noodles
dried oregano or Finley chopped parsley
lemon wedges for serving
Instructions
Boil pasta in salted water according to package instructions. Reserve 2 cups of the pasta water, drain pasta and set aside.
Lightly season the shrimp with salt and black pepper.
Melt butter in a large skillet over medium-high heat.
Add the shrimp and cook 30 seconds per side. Transfer the shrimp to a plate.
Add more butter if needed and reduce the heat to low. Add the butter and red pepper flakes. Warm through 20-30 seconds until the garlic is fragrant and slightly golden.
Add the heavy cream, salt, and pepper. Cook 3-4 minutes until steaming hot. This will also deglaze the skillet.
Add the pasta to the skillet along with the shrimp and parmesan. Toss to coat. Warm through and season with dried oregano or fresh parsley.
At first the sauce will be thin but it will thicken. Add some pasta water if there’s not enough sauce and to warm it up again.
Serve with more Parmesan cheese and lemon wedges. Kali Orexi!
Notes
Add vegetables to the Alfredo pasta:

spinach
broccoli
roasted asparagus

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Hi everyone yasa to another episode of dimitra’s dishes today I’m going to teach you how to make a quick and easy shrimp Alfredo it’s going to be on the table from start to finish in under 30 minutes perfect for a week night dinner idea for the

Family or if you want to serve something elegant to guest this is definitely it let’s get started okay so we’re going to begin by boiling the pasta and you could use your favorite pasta in this in the restaurants of course they use fetuccini pasta but I don’t have any so I’m using

Spaghetti noodle but bow tie pasta works well in this or your favorite just make sure that you bring a pot of water to a boil once it boils go ahead and add add the pasta in I’ll just go ahead and boil this whole pack of pasta which is one PB even

Though we’re not going to use all of it today but it’ll stay in the fridge and my kids will eat it with butter and even just cheese on top add some salt into the pasta water and then boil it for 9 to 10 minutes you don’t want to boil it

Too much because it is going to warm through in the sauce too so make sure that’s out of the way way first because the rest of the steps move so quickly that if you don’t have the pasta ready and you have to scramble to do it and

You’re not really used to doing that things will burn so go ahead and strain the pasta out over a colander before you do that I just reserved a cup or two of the pasta water for later on if I want to reheat the pasta with the shrimp and

Not add more cream to it so I have the skillet heating over medium high heat I’m going to add plenty of butter to it I’m going to leave it up to you how much butter you want to add and let the but melt and now at this point I’m going to

Add my shrimp I have a pound of shrimp that has been dained and the shell has also been been removed I left the tails on you can take them off if you like and I lightly seasoned the shrimp with a little bit of salt and black pepper I’m

Just going to cook this the shrimp on each side for about 30 or 40 seconds you don’t want them to be fully cooked just 30 or 40 seconds so they could get a little bit of color on them and I’m also going to do this in two batches so that

Way they don’t release a lot of liquid and take the shrimp out of the pan once they’re done put them in a plate and set them aside if your pan is looking a little bit dry and lonely add some more butter to it and once it melts at this

Point I also like to turn the heat off because the pan tends to get scorching hot and if you add the garlic at this point it might burn because it’s already grated I have six or maybe 60 garlic cloves here I like to use lots of garlic

Six is the minimum guys grate the garlic and just add it in make sure the heat is off cuz there’s going to be lots of residual Heat in the pan warm it through until it’s nice and fragrant that’s going to take about 20 30 seconds I also

Like to add a pinch of crush red pepper flakes to this it’s not traditional but you could add them in if you like and just warm them through with the garlic once that’s done you’re going to add three cups of heavy whipping cream to this and you’re going to season it with

A little pinch of salt warm it through for about 3 to 4 minutes and then once the cream is nice and hot you’re going to start adding the pasta in you’re going to think that there’s a lot of liquid in this but pasta really likes to soak up whatever liquid you’re putting

It in so don’t worry about it there’s going to be plenty of sauce for this I’m also going to add the shrimp in at this point at the same time and just warm it through on very low heat for 2 to 3 minutes that’s all it needs the shrimp

Is going to get fully cooked the pasta is going to absorb that sauce and then I like to add the parmesan cheese if you want to make it a little bit Greek keal graviera is lovely in this just go ahead and Grate some keal put the cheese in there how much as much

As your heart desires that’s how much the more the merrier this is a very rich dish at this point it’s ready I know it looks soupy and watery but trust me it’s going to get nice and thick I like to garnish this with some freshly chopped parsley and some lemon wedges and that’s

It it’s ready to be served let it sit for a little while and as it sits you’ll see that the pasta is really going to soak up that sauce if you’re not serving it right away and you need to reheat it best thing to do is is to pour a little

Bit of that pasta sauce over the pan and warm it through very gently so that way you don’t overcook the pasta and then go ahead and serve this with some lemon wedges on top some more cheese maybe some more parsley and some toasted garlic bread of course so just like that

The meal is ready we order this at the restaurant all the time my kids always get either a shrimp alfredo or a chicken alfredo it’s so much better when you make it at home because you’re using really high quality ingredients it costs so much less I mean the the benefits are

Endless like I said I’m kind of nervous I feel like I’m going to be judged a little because this is probably not an original Italian version of the shrimp Alfredo if you want that head on over to my friend’s Channel Vincenzo’s plate hopefully he won’t use this to do a like

A reaction he does those and they’re so funny but if you want to learn a very authentic one I haven’t even checked out how to make it authentically this is how it tastes when I eat it at the restaurant but like I said if you want to learn the authentic version check his

Channel out he’s as Italian as it gets but let’s do the taste test oh my God this is so comforting definitely not diet food let me get some shrimp put lots of shrimp on my plate and I’m probably going to put more so good honestly words cannot even describe

How delicious this is it definitely tastes better than anything I’ve had at a restaurant I know it looks a little bit scary if you’ve never made this to see all of that soupy sauce but like I said don’t worry it’s already almost gone I’m going to reheat this for my

Kids later on when they get back home from school with a little bit of that pasta water that I’ve reserved if you forget to do that you can add some regular water but it won’t be the same because pasta water is a little bit starchy so it keeps that creaminess that

The pasta has but uh you could also add some more cream if you don’t care about calories and obviously we don’t because we’re eating this for dinner but it’s so delicious I hope you guys give this recipe a try you can head on over to the website to print it out demr dishes.com

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