Garlic Shrimp Alfredo Pasta – a very simple dinner dish that will literally take only 35 minutes to make! This delicious, homemade, very creamy white cheese Italian pasta sauce includes the four-cheese blend: Mozzarella, White Cheddar, Provolone, Asiago cheeses.
For this easy Garlic Shrimp Alfredo Pasta I used small cooked shrimp, and I just reheated it gently in the skillet to use for this recipe. You can use raw shrimp, too. Make sure you cook it until it is cooked just right in step 1.
I love quick and easy recipes – they make my life so much easier! This shrimp alfredo pasta dish takes only 35 minutes to make, yet it tastes so amazingly delicious and looks very impressive – which makes everybody think that you put a lot of time and effort into it! Certainly not 35 minutes!
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First, you’ll be cooking shrimp in butter, with 5 cloves of finely minced garlic – this will fill your house with a wonderful smell of cooked garlic!
Second, you will cook and drain the pasta. Then, you’ll combine the cooked pasta with the alfredo sauce ingredients and cook everything for several minutes until the cheeses blend nicely with the liquid ingredients. Finally, you’ll add shrimp. That’s it! Super easy!
I’ve used 1 pound of small cooked shrimp to make this recipe (it was about 90 shrimp count). This recipe can easily be gluten free: just use gluten free brown rice spaghetti.
Garlic Shrimp Alfredo Pasta - a very simple dinner dish that will literally take only 35 minutes to make! This delicious, homemade, very creamy white cheese Italian pasta sauce includes the four-cheese blend: Mozzarella, White Cheddar, Provolone, Asiago cheeses.
- 1 lb cooked shrimp , peeled and deveined (90 count shrimp in 1 pound)
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1 tablespoon butter
- 5 garlic cloves minced
- 8 oz spaghetti
- 1 cup cooked pasta water
- 1 chicken bullion cube
- 1 cup heavy cream
- 1 1/2 cups Four-Cheese Italian White Cheese Blend (Mozzarella, White Cheddar, Provolone, Asiago)
- 1/4 cup parsley or chives or green onions , finely chopped
- Cook minced garlic and shrimp in olive oil and butter for about 2 minutes on medium heat, occasionally stirring, without burning. Remove the shrimp from the pan.
- Cook pasta in a separate pan, drain. Reserve some of cooked pasta water. Dissolve 1 cube of chicken broth bullion in 1 cup of hot pasta water.
- Add pasta water (with the dissolved chicken broth bullion cube in it), heavy cream, and cooked spaghetti to the skillet where you cooked shrimp. Bring to boil, stirring. Once the liquids are boiling, immediately add cheese and keep stirring everything together (spaghetti and the cream), while boiling, until cheese melts and coats pasta, for about 1 minute. Reduce to simmer and continue to cook, constantly stirring, to thicken the sauce - for another minute or two. Stir in half amount of shrimp.
- To serve, top each serving with the remaining half amount of shrimp and top with chives or finely chopped chives, or green onions, or parsley
Thank you so much!! for your recipe and it came out amazing. My family and friends loved it
I made this for dinner tonight and it was so delicious. My 3 year old and I really enjoyed this recipe
This turned out GREAT!! Thank you so much for this recipe
You’re very welcome! 🙂 Happy to hear you liked it! 🙂
I made this tonight. It had a good flavor, but the heavy cream mixed with cheese made it way too rich for me. Next time I’ll use half n half with a little less cheese and add chives instead of green onions or maybe even toss in some steamed broccoli. And for the lady looking for nutritional info. This dish contains, pasta, cheese, butter and heavy cream. Just. Don’t. lol eat it on a cheat day.
I am glad you liked it! Yes, the heavy creamy would usually be way too rich for me too, which is why in this recipe I thin it out with 1 cup of chicken broth (made out of chicken bullion cube + pasta water) – I hope you did not miss that step somehow! 🙂
I don’t have heavy cream. What can I use in place of it? Whole milk? Or evaporated filled milk?
Your next best option would be half and half.
Can I use beef or veg bullion husband is allergic to chicken and turkey
Yes, definitely, you can use beef or vegetable broth in place of chicken broth.
This looks delicious!! Shrimp and cheese, you just can’t go wrong! Think I may make this this weekend! Thanks so much for sharing!
Was wondering about using crawdads for shrimp on this recipe. Husband big on crawdads. Any thoughts?
Delicious! My whole family loved it…even my picku 8 yrs old! I will definitely make it again soon. Thank you for the recipe!
can I use a 4 cheese store bought sauce? Will it be the same?