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    Garlic Shrimp Pasta with Spicy Sun-Dried Tomato Cream Sauce

    Published: May 23, 2015 / 203 Comments

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    Garlic Shrimp and Sun-Dried Tomatoes with Pasta in Spicy Cream Sauce - a delicious, Italian-inspired seafood pasta recipe.   If you want to make something different with shrimp, try this recipe! It's easy and you'll love it if you like sun-dried tomatoes.

    Garlic Shrimp and Sun-Dried Tomatoes with Pasta in Spicy Cream Sauce in a stainless steel skillet

    There is lots of sauce in this seafood pasta. Be careful not to overcook the shrimp (which is easy to do). But even if you do overcook the shrimp, there is so much cream sauce, you won't even notice if the shrimp does get rubbery. That's the beauty of this recipe. Garlic Shrimp together with Sun-Dried Tomatoes is smothered in Spicy Creamy Sauce and served over fettuccine pasta. With everything spiced up with basil and crushed red pepper. Italian-inspired comfort food that's super easy to make!

    fork lifting pasta and shrimp from the stainless steel skillet filled with spicy shrimp pasta

    How to make garlic shrimp pasta:

    Start by cooking sun-dried tomatoes with minced garlic in 2 tablespoons of olive oil, then add shrimp, half and half, and spices:

    cooking shrimp in garlic and olive oil, with sun-dried tomatoes in a stainless steel skillet

    Add cooked pasta and mix everything in:

    adding cooked pasta to the sauce in the stainless steel skillet

    Adjust spices by adding more of basil, crushed red pepper, and salt:

    Garlic Shrimp and Sun-Dried Tomatoes with Pasta in Spicy Cream Sauce in a stainless steel skillet

    4.87 from 113 votes

    Garlic Shrimp Pasta with Spicy Sun-Dried Tomato Cream Sauce

    This is an Italian-inspired seafood pasta recipe with lots of flavors at play.  Garlic Shrimp together with Sun-Dried Tomatoes is smothered in a lot of Spicy Creamy Sauce and served over fettuccine pasta. Everything spiced up with basil and crushed red pepper.  YUM!
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    Prep Time 10 mins
    Cook Time 30 mins
    Total Time 40 mins
    Course Main Course
    Cuisine Italian
    Servings 4 servings
    Calories per serving 522 kcal
    Author: Julia

    Ingredients

    • ½ lb shrimp (Use unfrozen uncooked shrimp. If you have to, you can use unfrozen cooked shrimp - it will work here too)
    • 4 oz sun-dried tomatoes in olive oil
    • ¼ teaspoon salt
    • ¼ teaspoon paprika
    • 4 garlic cloves minced
    • 1 cup half-and-half or whole milk
    • 1 teaspoon dried basil
    • ¼ teaspoon crushed red pepper
    • 1 cup Parmesan cheese , freshly shredded
    • 8 oz fettuccine pasta (use gluten free brown rice fettuccine for gluten free version)

    Instructions 

    • Note: if using sun-dried tomatoes in oil (in a jar), make sure to drain sun-dried tomatoes from oil, before using them. Reserve 2 tablespoons of this drained oil for sauteing as described below:
    • In a large skillet, saute minced garlic and sun-dried tomatoes (drained from oil) in 2 tablespoons of oil (reserved from the sun-dried tomatoes jar - see note above) for 1 minute until garlic is fragrant.
    • Add shrimp, sprinkle with a small amount of salt, paprika, and cook on medium heat for about 2 more minutes.
    • Add half-and-half, basil, and crushed red pepper to the skillet with shrimp, bring to boil and reduce to simmer. Whisk the Parmesan cheese into the hot cream and stir to melt cheese, on the lowest heat setting, until cheese is melted. 
    • Remove the sauce from heat. Add more salt, basil, and more crushed red pepper if desired, to taste.
    • In the meantime, cook pasta according to package instructions. Drain (reserving some pasta water).
    • Add cooked pasta to the creamy mixture, add more salt, basil, and more crushed red pepper if desired, to taste.  If the sauce is too thick, use the reserved pasta water to thin it out.

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    Nutrition

    Nutrition Information
    Garlic Shrimp Pasta with Spicy Sun-Dried Tomato Cream Sauce
    Amount per Serving
    Calories
    522
    % Daily Value*
    Fat
     
    15
    g
    23
    %
    Saturated Fat
     
    8
    g
    50
    %
    Cholesterol
     
    182
    mg
    61
    %
    Sodium
     
    1087
    mg
    47
    %
    Potassium
     
    1257
    mg
    36
    %
    Carbohydrates
     
    62
    g
    21
    %
    Fiber
     
    5
    g
    21
    %
    Sugar
     
    12
    g
    13
    %
    Protein
     
    33
    g
    66
    %
    Vitamin A
     
    755
    IU
    15
    %
    Vitamin C
     
    14.9
    mg
    18
    %
    Calcium
     
    496
    mg
    50
    %
    Iron
     
    5
    mg
    28
    %
    * Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.

    The nutritional information on this website is only an estimate and is provided for convenience and as a courtesy only. The accuracy of the nutritional information for any recipe on this site is not guaranteed. It should not be used as a substitute for a professional nutritionist’s advice.

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    1. Karla

      March 11, 2023 at 3:08 pm

      What a terrific recipe! I used fresh sun dried tomatoes from the produce section, subbed cayenne for paprika and had to use Italian blend because I didn’t have plain basil on hand. I used a couple more garlic cloves because that’s to my taste and I was also generous with the crushed red pepper. The flavor profile is outstanding! This will become a staple in my recipe rotation, I’m sure.

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      • Julia

        March 18, 2023 at 5:58 pm

        Karla, thank you for this rave review! 🙂 So glad you loved this pasta!

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