Cajun Seafood Pasta
"I had two bags of Aldi Seafood Medley, I wasn't sure what to do with it, didn't want to overcook it either. Successful dinner doing it cajun style with Paul Prodhomme Magic spices."
Original is 6 servings
Ingredients
Nutritional
- Serving Size: 1 (305.6 g)
- Calories 633.4
- Total Fat - 39.7 g
- Saturated Fat - 20.6 g
- Cholesterol - 100.2 mg
- Sodium - 885 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 59.6 g
- Dietary Fiber - 1.5 g
- Sugars - 1.6 g
- Protein - 15.6 g
- Calcium - 82.3 mg
- Iron - 3.8 mg
- Vitamin C - 23.5 mg
- Thiamin - 0.4 mg
Step by Step Method
Step 1
Make the pasta, drain, oil, set aside
Step 2
Use the pasta water to gently boil the seafood, watch for the shrimp to start turning pink. Drain and set aside.
Step 3
Make the sauce:
Step 4
Use one stick of butter to saute the garlic and onion with 1T seasoning.
Step 5
Add tomatoes, the rest of the butter, another 1-2T seasoning, parsley, and a cup or so of pasta/seafood water. Slowly heat to a bubble.
Step 6
Dump the pasta water, save the pot for mixing ...
Step 7
Mix the pasta and the sauce, let it heat up again. Then stir in the seafood to warm up, don't cook it! Add the lemon and a bit more seasoning. Take off the heat.
Step 8
Enjoy!!
If you've never had Prodhomme's Magic Seasonings, this would be a great introduction. You could use something else, but the flavors here match the seafood very nicely. I would try a small can of tomato sauce next time and some more veggies, would yellow squash work with seafood?
Step 9
Add the
Tips
- I love my strainer/scoop from Aldi, allowed me to scoop out the pasta and seafood from the water.
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