Creamy Pesto with Sun-Dried Tomato and Shrimp Pasta
Recipe: #43528
August 30, 2024
Categories: Shrimp, Garlic Italian, Romantic Dinner, Valentine's Day, Herbs, more
"Packed with all that garlicky pesto pasta goodness."
Ingredients
Nutritional
- Serving Size: 1 (311.4 g)
- Calories 615.4
- Total Fat - 23.9 g
- Saturated Fat - 10.3 g
- Cholesterol - 187.8 mg
- Sodium - 858.6 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 73.3 g
- Dietary Fiber - 10 g
- Sugars - 1 g
- Protein - 28.2 g
- Calcium - 224.9 mg
- Iron - 2 mg
- Vitamin C - 4.1 mg
- Thiamin - 0.3 mg
Step by Step Method
Step 1
To a skillet, over medium-heat, add butter until it melts. Add garlic and sauté for a couple of minutes or so until just cooked. Add shrimp and sauté until shrimp turns pink. With a slotted spoon, removed shrimp to a bowl; set aside.
Step 2
To the skillet which the shrimp was sauteed in, add wine, pesto, cream, stock and sun-dried tomatoes and stir with a wooden spoon; cook for about 5 minutes.
Step 3
Meanwhile, cook pasta according to package directions, drain and return pasta to pan.
Step 4
To the pasta, add shrimp, pesto sauce, parmesan, salt and pepper, to taste; stir gently and cook on low heat until just warmed through, about 1 minute. Plate and top each serving with fresh basil and pine nuts.
Tips
No special items needed.