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Pesto Shrimp with Mushrooms - sautéed shrimp with mushrooms and pesto.
This easy, spicy pesto shrimp recipe has lots of flavor thanks to the ingredient list: pesto, garlic, red pepper flakes, fresh basil. It's gluten free and low carb.
If you want to know how to make the best sautéed, garlic shrimp with lots of flavor - this dish is for you! And, it's so easy!
Enjoy!
Pesto Shrimp with Mushrooms
Ingredients
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1 pound shrimp , peeled, deveined
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- ¼ teaspoon red pepper flakes
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 8 ounces white mushrooms , sliced
- 3 cloves garlic , minced
- ½ cup basil pesto
- ½ cup chicken broth
- 1 tablespoon fresh basil , chopped
Instructions
- Heat large skillet on medium-high heat until hot. Add olive oil - it should run without sizzling. Add shrimp, season shrimp with ¼ teaspoon salt and ¼ teaspoon red pepper flakes, cook for about 3 minutes, turning once midway, until shrimp is pink and cooked through. Remove shrimp from the skillet.
- Add another tablespoon of olive oil to the same, now empty, skillet. Add sliced mushrooms. Add minced garlic. Season mushrooms with salt (to taste). Cook, stirring, until mushrooms release liquid and reduce in volume and get soft, for about a minute or two. Add back the cooked shrimp. Add ½ cup basil pesto and ½ cup chicken broth. On medium heat, mix everything to combine. Remove from heat.
- When ready to serve, top the shrimp with chopped fresh basil.
- Want to make basil pesto from scratch? Here is a super flavorful and creamy 20-Minute Homemade Basil Pesto Recipe.
Nutrition
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This was easy and delicious! Added some pesto pasta with it! Yum
Glad you liked it! Yes, this shrimp is delicious with pesto pasta! 🙂
I made this tonight &we are waiting for it to be done it smells wonderful!!!!!!!!!Thank you for sharing
You're very welcome! Enjoy!
A great recipe. We just loved it. I added slices of green and red pepper to the mushrooms plus lots of minced garlic (we are real garlic lovers). Thanks for a great recipe. Will make it again with other variations.
You're very welcome! I am so glad you enjoyed this recipe. Adding more veggies to this recipe just makes it better! I am a huge fan of garlic and add lots of it to my recipes. 🙂
What a yummy recipe! I threw all the ingredients (including frozen shrimp and whole grape tomatoes) into my pressure cooker and manually set it at 3 minutes. This method yielded a lot of liquid, making the dish look more like a soup, but I just dropped a bowl of rice into it and it tasted amazing. Next time I will try thickening it with some cornstarch or flour and toss it with some linguine. I will be making this regularly from now on because my whole family loved it! Thank you for a great recipe 🙂
You're very welcome! So glad you enjoyed the recipe. Thank you for sharing how you made this in a pressure cooker.
Thanks for this recipe! I added a lot of spinach, some tomato, and a little bit of flour to thicken the sauce and had it with quinoa and it was beyond delicious! @Pam, that was an incredibly rude statement, talking like this about food is very disrespectful I really hope you don't teach your children to speak like this about food, you should be thankful for everything you have and thankful that this great recipe was shared with you!
What a great idea to serve this with quinoa!
IN the description before the actual recipe, it says there is garlic in the recipe. There is not any listed in the ingredients.
pesto has garlic in it
I corrected the recipe. Thank you for bringing this to my attention!
Omg I made this and it was a hit... Yummmmmmmmm thank you
You're so welcome! 🙂
We are not fussy eaters but this one didn't do it for us. Was edible but will not make again. Leftovers will be thrown away:(
“Leftovers will be thrown away” is unnecessary. Maybe the dish was not your taste, Pam. However, that doesn’t justify your choice of insulting words. Please think before you comment :).
Hi - I love this dish but would love to know the nutritional information as well.
Ooooooooo....this looks sooooo good!! Going to do it!
Thank you, Judy! 🙂
My sister recommended this recipe. Have you tired freezing this, and
if so does it freeze well?
I made this tonight and it was fantastic!! Thank you!!
Thank you! I am glad you liked it!
This is crazy good! I added sun-dried tomatoes to the mix, and served this over quinoa mixed with fresh basil. This is going to be one of my "special occasion" meals I make to impress company (and it was so easy). THANKS!!
PESTO SHRIMP WITH MUSHROOMS - your recipe for this dish is COMPLETELY AWESOME !! I've made it twice now - it's so easy and simple and takes no time at all. I serve with white rice and a salad - so flavorful !! thank you for putting this recipe up ! AMAZING !
Always looking for ideas to cook shrimp especially in the summer 🙂 Your photos make me want to make this right now. Cannot wait to try this as a first course to a nice filet dinner. We are Italians who eat a lot and always want another dish for the table. Thanks for your wonderful recipes!
Couldn't agree more, Licia. Ciao tutti e grazie 🙂