Pasta Limone with Garlic Lemon Shrimp
The perfect recipe to end summer. It is fresh and zingy with lemons, parsley, garlic and cream. This pasta Limone is delicious and wonderful with the Garlic shrimp.
Equipment
- Large saute pan
- Large stock pot
- Small sauté pan
- Spatula
Ingredients
- 4 tbsp butter
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 4 garlic cloves minced
- 2 lemons zest
- 1/4 cup lemon juice
- 3/4 cup cream
- 1/4 cup milk
- 1/2 cup pasta water
- 1/4 cup parmesan cheese
- 2 tsp fresh parsley chopped
- 300 gm pasta
Optional- Garlic Lemon Shrimp
- 1 tbsp butter
- 10 Prawns
- 2 garlic cloves minced
- 1/2 onion finely chopped
- 1 tbsp fresh parsley finely chopped
- 1 tsp dry herbs thyme
- 1 tsp lemon juice
- salt & pepper
Instructions
- Start by cooking your pasta as per the package instructions.
- While that is cooking we make the lemon sauce, sweat the garlic in the butter and olive oil in a sauté pan. We do not want to add color so we keep the heat on low to medium.
- Add the lemon zest and cook some more. Add some of the cooking liquid from the pasta, cream and bring to a simmer. Add half the parmesan cheese and stir together.
- The pasta should be cooked at this point, we want to under cook the pasta a little as it will continue to cook in the sauce. Add the drained pasta into the sauce and stir. Finish with freshly chopped parsley, salt, pepper and more parmesan cheese.
- OPTIONAL: We now make the Garlic lemon shrimp. It takes less than 5 minutes to make (depending on the size of your shrimp). In a sauté pan add the butter, shallots and garlic. Sweat until translucent. Add the shrimp and cook on one side for 1-2 minutes. Add the lemon juice, fresh and dry herbs and Cook on the other side for 1 minute or so. Once the shrimp is cooked you can spoon it over the pasta and serve the dish hot.
Notes
- You can keep this recipe vegetarian and leave out the shrimp but I would recommend adding some veggies like corn, yellow zucchini and yellow bell peppers into it.