Shrimp cream sauce is a wonderful addition to spaghetti. This is one of the most successful ways to identify mollusks, if there are not many, but you want to eat tasty and satisfying.
Also a big advantage is the speed of cooking. Regardless of the selected recipe, the process does not take more than half an hour.
Shrimp spaghetti in cream sauce - general principles of preparation
• Spaghetti. To make the dish tasty, nothing is boiled, you need to get a good pasta. Do not save on pasta and buy soft wheat products. Spaghetti is always prepared according to the instructions, since the cooking time for different manufacturers may vary. After cooking, the product is poured into a colander to stack the broth.
• For this dish, you can use even the smallest shrimp, it will be even better. Recipes usually indicate the weight of the purified product. In addition to the shell, you need to take out the dark vein-intestine, which passes along the back.
• Cream sauce. Most pasta recipes use cream with an average fat content of 10 to 20%. You can add to them a portion of sour cream, milk, sometimes the sauce is prepared specifically for them. Cream we take only fresh and natural without plant components in the composition.
• Spices. In the sauce you need to add salt, pepper, fresh or dry greens. Ideal - a mixture of Italian herbs, which mainly consist of basil, oregano, marjoram.
• Additional ingredients. In addition to shrimp, cheese of different varieties, mushrooms, vegetables and other suitable products can be added to the sauce. But you need to remember that each of them has its own cooking time, it is advisable to follow the recipe.
Shrimp spaghetti in creamy lemon sauce
The recipe for spicy shrimp sauce for spaghetti, which is prepared with lemon juice and zest. Red pepper is used for pungency; its amount can be reduced.
Ingredients
• 150 grams of shrimp;
• 190 grams of cream;
• 200 grams of spaghetti;
• 0.3 tsp red pepper;
• 0.5 lemon;
• 1 tbsp. l butter cream .;
• clove of garlic.
Cooking
1. Melt a full tablespoon of butter, add chopped garlic, stir.
2. Peeled shrimp pour juice from half a lemon. If there is time, then leave for fifteen minutes.
3. Put the clams in oil, fry over high heat for a couple of minutes.
4. Add hot pepper, sprinkle evenly, stir.
5. Pour the cream. We give them a boil and immediately remove the fire to the minimum. Stew clams in sauce for a couple of minutes.
6. We rub 0.5 tsp. zest with lemon, sprinkle the dish, turn off. Be sure to cover the pan, let the sauce infuse a little.
7. In boiling water, prepare spaghetti. We merge products in a colander. They do not need to be washed, especially since running water is not used for this purpose.
8. Transfer the paste to the plates, pour spicy sauce with shrimp.
Cheese spaghetti with shrimps in a creamy sauce
In general, any cheese can be used for shrimp spaghetti and creamy sauce, but a true Italian dish is prepared with parmesan.
Ingredients
• 170 g peeled shrimp;
• 190 ml cream;
• 40 g of grated parmesan;
• 50 g of soft cheese;
• 250 grams of spaghetti (in dry form);
• a couple of cloves of garlic;
• 3.5 tbsp. l olive oil;
• basil or other herbs.
Cooking
1. It is best to cook the sauce in olive oil, pour it into a skillet. Set to heat.
2. Peel the garlic and cut each slice in half lengthwise. Put in a pan, fry until rosy color, so that the oil gets a pleasant aroma.
3. Garlic can now be thrown away.
4. Peeled shrimp spread in garlic oil, fry almost until cooked, but do not overdo it on fire to prevent the mollusks from being dry.
5. Mix soft cream cheese and liquid cream, salt, pepper, put chopped basil.
6. Pour almost ready-made shrimp with a creamy mass, heat.
7. Grate the parmesan, add to the sauce when it is almost boiling. Stir until completely dissolved and remove.
8. Pour the prepared spaghetti into a pan with shrimps, stir with sauce. The dish is served immediately while it is hot. You can also sprinkle parmesan on top.
Shrimp spaghetti in creamy wine sauce
Seafood turns out to be unusually fragrant, if a little put out in wine. Here's a recipe for a simple sauce with onion flavor.
Ingredients
• 50 ml of wine;
• 1 tsp Italian herbs;
• 200 g of shrimp;
• a teaspoon of flour;
• a glass of cream about 15%;
• 200-250 g of dry spaghetti (boil according to instructions);
• 60 grams of onions;
• 30 ml of olive oil;
• 50 g of parmesan.
Cooking
1. We warm the olive oil, put onion, chopped into large rings, into it. Fry until brown, but the onion should not burn. Carefully take out all the rings with a fork.
2. Wash the shrimp. Powder on top with flour, spread in onion oil, fry over high heat until light crust.
3. Pour the wine. Reduce the fire, stir and evaporate the alcohol for about a minute.
4. We mix cream and Provencal aromatic herbs, put salt and immediately fill in grated parmesan.
5. Put the creamy mixture in a pan with shrimps, stir, cover and simmer for a couple of minutes.
6. Mix the pasta and cooked sauce, distribute in portions, decorate with herbs.
Shrimp spaghetti in creamy cherry sauce
A recipe for very bright and delicious shrimp spaghetti in a creamy sauce, for which you definitely need cherry tomatoes. With large tomatoes, nothing happens.
Ingredients
• 160 g of shrimp;
• 10 cherry;
• a glass of cream;
• boiled spaghetti (4 servings);
• 4 tbsp. l Parmesan
• clove of garlic;
• four tablespoons of oil;
• any greens (basil, dill);
• a spoonful of flour for tomatoes.
Cooking
1. Lightly fry peeled shrimp on three tablespoons of olive oil.
2. Chop one clove of garlic, add to the clams, stir. After a few seconds add cream.
3. Warm up the sauce for a minute, pour spices and add two tablespoons of parmesan. Warm up until it dissolves.
4. Pour the remaining oil into another skillet; just lightly grease the surface. To warm.
5. Cut the cherry in half. Sprinkle slices with flour, you can just dip it. Quickly put the tomatoes on a hot frying pan with a slice down, fry a little.
6. On a plate, first put a portion of boiled spaghetti. Top the shrimp and pour the creamy sauce. Scatter the halves of the cherry. For brightness, you can add several branches of greenery to the dish.
Shrimp spaghetti in creamy tomato sauce
This sauce is prepared with the addition of tomatoes. Tomatoes should be ripe, fleshy, not sour. The cream fat is arbitrary.
Ingredients
• 2 large tomatoes;
• 150 ml cream;
• 120 g peeled shrimp;
• 50 g of onions;
• 30 ml of oil;
• 4 servings of spaghetti;
• 2 branches of basil.
Cooking
1. To prepare this sauce, you will need two pans. Divide the oil in half, pour. We put one on fire, heat it.
2. Cut the onions into small cubes, pour into one of the pans. We begin to fry, but do not brown. We pass on low heat until soft.
3. Dip the tomatoes in boiling water, rinse after a minute, remove the skin. Cut the flesh into small cubes, add to the onion, cover, simmer for about five minutes.
4. The second pan is also heated, put the shrimp, fry for about two minutes.
5. Add cream, heat.
6. Spread the tomato mass with onions from the second pan, stir.
7. We wash the branches of basil, chop very finely, put in the sauce. At the same stage, you need to salt, to taste we put hot ground pepper. Mix well, bring to a boil.
8. Put the sauce to the boiled spaghetti, stir, arrange in portions. For decoration we use basil, you can sprinkle the dish with parmesan, but just a little bit.
Spaghetti with shrimp and broccoli in a creamy sauce
In a similar way, you can prepare a sauce with cauliflower, but you need to boil it for two minutes more. Broccoli inflorescences can be taken frozen or fresh, in the first embodiment they are immediately launched into boiling water.
Ingredients
• 250 g of broccoli inflorescences;
• 200 g of shrimp;
• 360 ml cream;
• 2-3 tablespoons of flour;
• 60 g of grated cheese;
• a little oil;
• 4-5 servings of boiled spaghetti;
• a couple of cloves of garlic.
Cooking
1. Pour broccoli inflorescences into boiling water, boil for three minutes. Pour into a colander, wait for cooling.
2. In oil, fry the shrimp, remove from the pan into a bowl, let them wait in the wings.
3. Flour broccoli inflorescences with wheat flour, you can roll them, but then the excess should be shaken off so that they do not burn.
4. Fry inflorescences from two sides. After they are almost ready, add chopped cloves of garlic.
5. Now return the shrimp to the pan.
6. Next pour the cream. Add spices and salt to the sauce.
7. Let the dish obscure over low heat for about three minutes. We fall asleep half the grated cheese.
8. Once the cheese has spread in the sauce, you can turn off the stove.
9. Spread the broccoli with shrimp on spaghetti, sprinkle with cheese on top, which remained.
Shrimp Spaghetti in Cream Sauce - Useful Tips and Tricks
• In any of the recipes, you can replace the shrimp with squid, but reducing the cooking time to a few minutes. Be sure to try, perhaps this version of the dish will also be to your taste.
• If the gravy is too thick, then it can be diluted with a decoction that remains after cooking the spaghetti.
• Spaghetti should be dipped only in boiling water at the rate of one liter per 100 grams of dry product. Otherwise, the taste will be far from ideal, pasta will stick together.
• How much salt to add when cooking spaghetti? The calculation usually goes on the amount of water, 1 liter needs 10 grams.
