Shrimp scampi pasta

Shrimp scampi pasta is a very simple, quick and flavorful entree in which shrimp is cooked in lemon-wine sauce and poured over spaghetti.

This shrimp scampi is so garlicky and lemony and one of the easiest sauce I ever made. Though first time, I was a little skeptic about the sauce as the ingredient list was pretty simple and small, just butter, garlic, lemon juice, lemon zest, wine and parsley. But when I made shrimp scampi pasta for the first time, my husband and I was so amazed how the dish is so tasty and flavorful. Though I added few more ingredients and made it pretty garlicky and spicy.

It takes only 20 minutes to make this dish if you are using cleaned, deveined shrimp or frozen shrimp and majority of the cooking time are taken to boil the water for pasta.  Many people also like to add heavy cream to this dish to make this pasta creamy and add extra layer of flavor.
Shrimp scampi is a very popular American-Italian dish in which shrimp is cooked in garlic-butter-wine sauce and served with crusty bread or poured over pasta.

Total time: 20 min
Yield:- 4 servings
Ingredients for shrimp scampi pasta :-

• 3 Tbsp of extra virgin olive oil
• 5 garlic cloves, finely chopped
• 1 shallot or half of small onion finely chopped
• 1/2-3/4 tsp of red pepper flakes
• 1/3 cup of dry white wine ( I used Marsala wine)
• 2 Tbsp of lemon juice
• 1 lb of cleaned, deveined and shelled shrimps
• 2 Tbsp of butter
• 1/4 cup of parsley, chopped
• Zest of two large lemons
• Salt and pepper to taste
• 8 ounces of whole grain spaghetti

Method for shrimp scampi pasta :-

1. Cook the spaghetti with salt, according to the package direction.
2. In a wide pan, add oil and garlic and turn on the heat to low-medium. When the garlic starts to change color, add red pepper flakes and onion.
3. Cook the onion until it is light brown in color. Then add shrimp and mix well. Let it cook for a minute.
4. Then turn down the heat to low and carefully add wine, lemon juice, salt and pepper and let the sauce comes to simmer.
5. Cook the shrimp until it is pink and all curled up. Now add butter and let it melt.
6. Lastly turn off the heat and add the lemon zest and parsley. Add the spaghetti with 2 Tbsp to 1/4 cup of pasta water and toss it well.
7. Shrimp scampi pasta is done and ready to serve.

Serve shrimp scampi pasta with green salad.
Use less garlic, if you are not a fan of garlic.