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What You’ll Love About My Recipe
Rich and creamy, this shrimp alfredo recipe is likely to win over your entire family and become a weekly meal.
Why not try making some Buttery Old Bay Steamed Shrimp or Garlic Butter Shrimp to use in this alfredo pasta? You can make the sauce even creamier by using this 5 Ingredient Cream Cheese Alfredo Sauce and serve your shrimp alfredo with some Classic Homemade Garlic Bread.
Reader Review
I made this a couple of days ago for my family, and was told not to forget this recipe. Thanks so much for it. had no idea that Alfredo sauce was that easy to make. and tastes so much better than the stuff you get in a jar. I added a bit of basil to it to give it a bit more flavour. This won’t be a one and done recipe, that’s for sure.
Karlynn’s Recipe Notes
- Skill Level: This is an easy recipe.
- Total Time: Making this pasta takes approximately 45 minutes from start to finish.
- Variations: If Old Bay seasoning isn’t your thing, try mixing up some Shrimp Seasoning or Cajun Seasoning to toss your shrimp in. Add some frozen peas to your pasta to get a vegetable in there, or try adding basil as the above reviewer did. Load up on garlic, onion powder, and whatever seasonings you like best.
- Tools Needed: For this recipe, you’ll need a large pot, a colander, a large skillet, and a small frying pan.
What You’ll Need For Ingredients
Shrimp: Whatever shrimp you choose to use, make sure they’re cleaned and deveined. You may need to do this yourself for fresh shrimp, but many frozen and precooked varieties of shrimp come already cleaned.
Sauce: Alfredo sauce is surprisingly easy to make and once you learn how you may want to make it for everything. If you haven’t got the salted butter for this part of the recipe, you can use regular butter and add salt to taste.
Pasta: Fettucine is the classic choice to go with alfredo, but you can really use any pasta you like. Long noodles, like spaghetti or spaghettini will work. So will smaller shapes like elbow macaroni, small shells, or bow ties.
How To Make Shrimp Alfredo
This is a brief overview of the recipe. The full list of ingredient and step-by-step instructions are in the recipe card below.
- Cook pasta according to package directions.
- In a large skillet over medium heat, fry garlic in butter for 2-3 minutes.
- Add whipping cream and simmer for 5 minutes.
- Add parmesan and stir until fully melted and combined. Cook until reduced to your liking.
- Add cooked pasta to the sauce and mix thoroughly.
- In a small pan, sprinkle shrimp with seasoning and cook for 4-5 minutes.
- Serve pasta with shrimp sprinkled on top.
Karlynn’s Tips and Tricks for Making Shrimp Alfredo
Shrimp Solutions: Overcooked shrimp is rubbery and chewy, which is why we don’t add it until the very last minute. Another way to avoid overcooking your shrimp is to use precooked shrimp. Just toss it in the seasoning and add it to the pasta and sauce. Depending on how big the shrimp you are using are, they should only take a minute or two to warm up from the heat of the rest of the food.
More Sauce: Even the best alfredo sauce, with plenty of cream and cheese, has a tendency to dry out or solidify as it cools, making it seem like its not coating the pasta as well as a tomato-based sauce. This is especially true when you’re reheating leftovers to eat later. So if this is something that bothers you, do yourself a favour and double up on the sauce recipe, just in case. Who doesn’t love having some extra alfredo sauce around, right?
Storage Instructions
Fridge: Once fully cooled, you can store the leftovers in a sealed container in the fridge for 2-3 days. You may need to add some extra sauce or a bit of milk/cream when you reheat the pasta, as alfredo sauce tends to dry out easily.
Freezer: If you choose to freeze the leftovers, consider doing so in individual servings that can be heated up quickly in the microwave rather than all in one big clump.
More Delicious Shrimp Recipes
Looking for more ways to eat shrimp?
Try this tasty Shrimp Caesar Salad or some Popcorn Shrimp for quick lunches.
Make Shrimp Casserole for a full meal, or Shrimp Stock with your leftovers.
If you prefer other seafood, check out Garlic Butter Salmon and Crab Quiche.
There you go, friends. An easy recipe that will hit that shrimp craving AND the alfredo craving at the same time. Try it out and let me know what you think.
Happy Cooking!
Karlynn
Shrimp Alfredo
Ingredients
Seasoned Shrimp
- 1 pound shrimp, cleaned and deveined
- 1-2 teaspoon Old Bay Blackened seasoning
Alfredo Sauce
- ½ cup salted butter
- 2 teaspoon minced garlic
- 2 ½ cups whipping cream, 35%
- 1 cup grated Parmesan cheese
- 500-600 grams fresh fettucine noodles, or dry
Instructions
- Cook the noodles in a large pot of salted boiling water until they are al dente, around 5-6 minutes. For dry pasta, follow the package instructions.
- Combine the butter and minced garlic in a large skillet. Fry the garlic for 2-3 minutes until fragrant.
- Add in the whipping cream and then bring to a low simmer. Simmer for 5 minutes or so, reducing the liquid.
- Add in the Parmesan, tossing until it’s melted in completely. Cook until the sauce reduces to your liking, then add in the cooked, drained fettuccine noodles. Simmer for another 2-3 minutes to warm the pasta and cook it slightly further.
- When it’s almost done, sprinkle the shrimp with the seasoning and then fry the shrimp quickly in a small frying pan until pink all the way through. Shrimp cook in around 4-5 minutes.
- To plate, place the a sauce covered noodles on the plate and top with shrimp.
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
Ian says
I made this a couple of days ago for my family, and was told not to forget this recipe. Thanks so much for it. had no idea that Alfredo sauce was that easy to make. and tastes so much better than the stuff you get in a jar. I added a bit of basil to it to give it a bit more flavour. This won’t be a one and done recipe, that’s for sure.
Margo Haynes says
Like all of your recipes, this one is fantastic. I have a question though, at the bottom right-hand corner of all of your pages is a very small black banner that reads “unsubscribe to notifications”. 90 % of the time it covers up the part where you can either click to save or not save. Is there any way that it can be moved up the page just a tiny bit?
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Harry V says
as a life long seafood catcher, cooker, and devourer I have a minor comment.
Firstly, any shrimp lessshrimp than 30-36 count will not be as sweet or tender as smaller. Secondly, consider cooking shrimp less than 4-5 minutes. I would also suggest you cook small or medium shrimp for two minutes, then add to the sauce for a minute i=or two. They will finifh cooking within a minute or two and will remain hotter than if placed on top of the sauce. This also works well with shrimp and grits. You can also use scallops slightly under cooked. Best with bay scallops but if using sea scallops cut into smaller pieces. Little neck clams work well also but steam until opened. Remove from shell and leave in steaming liquid until you add to the final product
Mr. Kitchen Magpie says
Great tips! So you prefer smaller shrimp for taste? I’m always going for bigger shrimp.
EmmiJade says
Seafood alfredo is one of my favorite foods! I just picked up some whole wheat linguini last week and was considering what to do with it…I may try your lovely alfredo sauce recipe. I love shrimp in alfredo, but the thing that always makes it The Best is scallops. Shrimp and scallop alfredo is literally my favorite food on the planet, haha!
Omid says
There are so many takes on pasta and this machine would be a wonderful addition in my household. I would love to try to make soba noodles using buckwheat. It would go fabulously with a good broth.
Terry says
Oh this looks so delicious. We eat pasta several times a week. My husband hates shrimp too. More for me. I love to make homemade pasta. Machine looks cool.
Lee-Ann says
We are huge linguine and fettuccine lovers – but I would probably try spaghetti first!
Bonnie says
Would love, love, love to win this!
Maritess says
I would like to try doing a gluten-free spaghetti pasta.
Erin Plume says
This looks dangerous! I have never mastered homemade pasta and that makes me very sad.
Julie Culshaw says
I love fresh pasta and would love to try making my own.
Amelia Leung says
I would love to make spaghetti bolognese.
Jackie M says
I would love to try to make spaghetti and fettuccine in various sauces.