Thrive Life freeze dried Shrimp & Broccoli Alfredo recipe start to finish in less than 13 mins yum!

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I’m sharing this quick and easy recipe you can make using Thrive Life freeze dried shrimp and broccoli to make an amazingly delicious alfredo in less than 13 minutes.
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hi and welcome to thrive thursday so i’m going to try something new i know i’ve had a lot of questions from people about like what how do i make recipes using thrive ingredients so i’m gonna see how this works we’ll do a few uh videos of me making the recipe and see if that helps answer some questions today i’m gonna make shrimp alfredo this is with thrive life shrimp brand new product so super excited about this so many possibilities you can make with the with shrimp so this is free straight shrimp and let me tell you if if you don’t like the smell of seafood um yeah good luck because whoa it is a seafood smell as soon as you open that can but see the size of the shrimp nice and small so um i’m excited to have this in our food storage just because i mean it’s seafood right so that’s that something if you ever had to live off your food storage seafood would be something you would probably miss if you’re landlocked like i am um so i’m super excited that this seafood has a long shelf life and now we have shrimp freeze-dried shrimp so i’m gonna go ahead and tilt the camera down and i’ll show you how to make the shrimp alfredo for this recipe we’re going to start with my basic alfredo sauce recipe now this recipe i came across years ago and i’m telling you it is the best it’s super easy anybody can do it you can’t really mess it up um so you’re going to take a cube of butter and melt it in your pan and when i get the butter mostly melted i’ll add the cream cheese cream cheese usually takes a little bit longer for it to melt so it’s a good idea to kind of get it started and going with the butter that way your butter doesn’t burn um so at this point it’s not like it it’s not that it’s hard or anything hard to do it just takes a little bit of time and patience and you kind of have to babysit it just a little bit um i’m going to also add some garlic powder now you can add the garlic powder later in the recipe with the sauce if you want but i figured may as well go ahead and add it now and we’ll get some good garlic powdered flavor in with the butter and cream cheese so this really just depends on your preference how much you like garlic i put about one and a half teaspoons of garlic powder in there we really really like garlic at my house um now you could also do like minced garlic if you wanted to do that instead for that though i would probably add it later in the recipe because you definitely don’t want the minced garlic to burn and so at this point you’re just going to you’re you’re waiting to melt the cream cheese and it helps if you break it up a little bit it’s a little tricky with the with a whisk here but we’ll get it again it just takes a little bit of time and patience and i think i i didn’t really have my burner on super hot here either it’s a little faster on the stove top but that’s okay um so we’re just breaking up the the cream cheese just kind of helps it melt a little bit faster because essentially that’s all we’re doing is we’re melting the cream cheese and then we’re going to mix the cream cheese and the butter so you want to emulsify the cream cheese and butter now i’m not speeding up this video on purpose just because i want you to see how easy this video and this sauce and recipe is it really is not hard um i know sometimes i watch videos and they get sped up and you’re like oh yeah okay that probably took them a half hour to make and they just sped it up and so showed it in five minutes um but this really doesn’t take that long to make like i said the longest part is just getting this cream cheese to melt um and and you can have your burner up higher than i had mine of course that would speed things up um so for this i mean i just using my whisk like if you wanted to cut the cream cheese at first before putting it in that’s fine there’s no wrong way to do this really you’re just getting that cream cheese as it starts to get warm it’ll slowly melt and you want to the cream cheese and the butter will both melt but they’ll be separate and so using the whisk and mixing them around you’re basically combining the butter into the melted cream cheese and that’s what you want now when i make this recipe for like chicken alfredo or just as an alfredo sauce we usually have it in a stock pan so i can whisk it really hard so this is a frying pan i can’t really whisk it too hard or else things will come out of the frying pan and i keep wiping it up a little bit occasionally when i do that but but when i’m making it like for a big dinner for my family i will i will do this in a stockpot so i can even tilt the stockpot on the corner a little bit and whisk it really really hard um so normally you want to mix this all together until the cream cheese and the butter are one basically you you’ve emulsified them like you would in a like a vinaigrette dressing or something right you’re mixing the oils and the fats together and you don’t want them to separate but for this since i am doing shrimp i i was you know like i said normally i would mix them all together until they were just it was one sauce but i got thinking you know what goes good with shrimp obviously butter you can never use too much butter when you’re cooking with shrimp so i decided to add the shrimp in before the cream cheese and the butter were fully blended because that way that shrimp could kind of absorb some of that butter and have a really good flavor now if you don’t want to do that of course you don’t have to do that you can keep mixing them it does mix and blend a lot better together when it’s in a stock pot um just because it’s deeper sides and you can really whisk it hard and fast is what you have to do to blend them really the way that they need to be blended um and and that’s something we would do for a normal alfredo sauce recipe that we’re doing but this one we’re kind of going to be adding because the shrimp is freeze-dried and the broccoli is freeze-dried i’m i’m not reconstituting the shrimp or the broccoli beforehand we’re going to add them into the sauce and let them reconstitute in our alfredo sauce so that way they get all that good alfredo flavor right there and they just cook right with the sauce you totally can do that with anything with with thrive life or freeze dried foods when you’re making them you don’t have to reconstitute them in water and rehydrate them in water first if you’re making anything with a sauce just add them dry add them dry into the sauce sometimes that means that you might need to add a little bit more liquid so like in this case i might need to add a little bit more milk to the to the sauce because you’re going to have your your shrimp and your broccoli absorbing some of that that liquid right but if you’re if you’re making a casserole anything like that that has a sauce a soup soups are wonderful for freeze-dried stuff because literally you’ve already got the sauce there right so for this recipe i’m i’m going to go ahead and add the shrimp here because i want it i do want it to absorb some of this butter into that shrimp flavor because you know shrimp and butter and addie was watching and she wanted to sample a freeze-dried shrimp so of course i let her sample one um i’m just using a cup of the freeze-dried shrimp because remember freeze-dried foods go a lot further than you think they will um now add your milk in slowly so i’m just going to add a little bit at a time and kind of mix it in because remember that shrimp is is rehydrating as soon as it went in there it started to rehydrate but you don’t want a lumpy sauce we don’t want lumpy alfredo so i’m just going to add it in a little bit at a time make sure it’s it’s incorporating and it’s basically making a thin sauce i i as before it gets too thick i want to add more milk until i have the full two cups so proportion wise so far we’ve got one cube of butter or a quarter of a cup or sorry half a cup sorry one cube of butter which equals one half cup of butter and one cube or eight ounces of cream cheese two cups of milk one cup of the freeze-dried spinach and it looks like about one and three-quarters cups of freeze-dried broccoli there and now that i’ve got those all and then we had about a teaspoon and a half of garlic powder now that i’ve got these all in there we’re going to let them absorb some of that milk and that liquid for a bit and then i’m going to add the parmesan cheese your basic alfredo is basic alfredo sauce is basically parmesan cheese and garlic and in a heavy cream sauce so cream you could use heavy whipping cream or regular milk it just depends on how healthy you want to make it so now that we have everything else there we’re just going to add two cups of parmesan cheese and this is um this parmesan cheese i keep mine in the freezer there you can use the thrive live freeze dried parmesan cheese which i just didn’t have a can open so i used what i had in the freezer but this would be such an amazing like you could literally do it with almost all freeze-dried ingredients you’ve got thrive life has three freeze-dried butter powder they’ve got the instant milk they’ve got the parmesan cheese they even have freeze-dried garlic and that is really good so you i mean you can literally make this whole recipe using all thrive life freeze-dried foods and it’s super quick so the longer that it cooks in here all that shrimp and that broccoli is just going to rehydrate and it really doesn’t take that long one thing to remember when you’re rehydrating freeze-dried foods is the hotter the liquid the faster they’ll rehydrate now that doesn’t mean that you have to have hot liquid to rehydrate you can rehydrate stuff in cold water just remember it’s going to take probably going to take a little bit longer and so the hotter the hotter the liquid is the faster it’s going to rehydrate so we’re going to just let this cook for a little bit and also as it cooks we’re melting the parmesan cheese and with the cheese melting and the shrimp and the broccoli rehydrating it’s going to naturally thicken this sauce up quite a bit so we’re just going to stir that and pretty much i mean it’s the sauce is pretty much done we’re just waiting for that parmesan cheese to melt and for the shrimp and broccoli to rehydrate and and we’re good to go we can just add our pasta into it i had i had the pasta cooking on the stove while i was making this this is such a fast recipe such a fast easy dinner can you i mean can you imagine just making this on a week night so easy and quick to do and you’ve got this delicious dinner and it’s just a matter of less than 13 minutes this whole thing start to finish took to make so just check your check your cheese every once in a while see make sure and the the parmesan cheese is shredded so it is small pieces so they do melt fairly fast um and so i just wanted to check my pasta and let’s make sure the pasta is all cooked and ready to add right into the sauce if you don’t want to add the pasta into the sauce you could have them separate as two separate dishes and pour the the alfredo and the shrimp and broccoli on top of the pasta but we like to mix them at our house that way it seems like you don’t ever get an imbalance of sauce versus noodles right but it looks like the cheese is is starting to get pretty melted here it’s yup see that string you can see the elasticity of the sauce and that’s the melted cheese and that’s the good part and when you know when you start to see that you know that cheese is melting that’s gonna be a good sauce and so it’s thickening up you can see it’s getting really thick there too as as everything’s thickened up this shrimp and the broccoli have had time to rehydrate and look at that look at that stringy cheese i love it all the cheese is now melted the sauce has thickened i’m going to go ahead and turn off the burner and let’s add our noodles and once the noodles are in we’re done we’re good to go this we made this for lunch for the kids and i but you could do this for dinner for lunch this is i mean so quick and so easy literally it took the same amount of time for my noodles to cook as it did for the sauce and the shrimp and broccoli that’s just amazing i mean less than 13 minutes can you imagine you it would take you longer than that to order dinner at a restaurant or to wait for pizza or something to be delivered and this is all so easy and and the ingredients like i said you could use all shelf-stable thrive life freeze-dried ingredients for this whole recipe um so i hope this gives you some good ideas now i mean you could do this instead of shrimp you could put chicken in it if you don’t like shrimp you could do this exact same recipe and do chicken instead or you could do nope if you are a vegetarian you can go ahead and just do know me add peas instead of broccoli there’s a lot of things that you can do this just a basic alfredo recipe this sauce so you can you can change it up however you want if you want to do it in like a lasagna we’ve done veggie lasagnas with this sauce it’s it’s amazing it’s great you could do total a seafood veggie or seafood lasagna with this sauce that would be amazing which is some different types of noodles and uh have your your shrimp and all that but there we go let’s just we’ll just stir this up really good and get that sauce covered all the the noodles covered with the sauce really well and that is it it’s so simple this is something anybody could do your kids could do this for dinner literally from start to finish i can tell you less than 13 minutes and i know this because i have the timer on my video right now telling me how long it’s been so start to finish 13 minutes on this shrimp and broccoli alfredo amazing oh my gosh and it smells wonderful it would take you longer if you’d wait longer at a restaurant if you ordered it and sat at a restaurant for it so i mean this is awesome so i can’t wait because it smells amazing and it’s still pretty hot was a big piece of broccoli oh my gosh so good um yeah i almost don’t want to show my kids this video because i think they’ll want to make it all the time it’s pretty good all right i hope that helped you learn a quick and easy meal you can make using thrive life broccoli and thrive life shrimp