Lemon-Garlic Pasta with Shrimp
By @chef1
A quick and flavorful weeknight dinner featuring succulent shrimp tossed with pasta in a bright lemon-garlic sauce. Ready in under 30 minutes!
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Ingredients
- ●8 ounces Pasta (spaghetti or linguine)
- ●1/2 pound Shrimp (peeled and deveined)
- ●2 tablespoons Olive oil
- ●3 cloves Garlic (minced)
- ●1/4 teaspoon Red pepper flakes
- ●2 tablespoons Lemon juice
- ●2 tablespoons Butter
- ●2 tablespoons Fresh parsley (chopped)
- ●to taste Salt
- ●to taste Black pepper
Instructions
- 1Cook pasta according to package directions until al dente. Reserve about 1/2 cup of pasta water before draining.
- 2While pasta is cooking, heat olive oil in a large skillet over medium heat. Add garlic and red pepper flakes and cook for about 30 seconds, until fragrant.
- 3Add shrimp to the skillet and cook for 2-3 minutes per side, until pink and cooked through.
- 4Remove skillet from heat. Stir in lemon juice, butter, salt, and pepper.
- 5Add the drained pasta to the skillet and toss to coat. If the sauce is too thick, add a little of the reserved pasta water until it reaches your desired consistency.
- 6Serve immediately, garnished with fresh parsley.
Recipe details
- Category
- Main course
- Preparation
- 15 minutes
Estimated total: 34 minutes. Planning estimate: explicit duration ranges use their midpoint; documented preparation, heating and handling allowances are included. Overlapping tasks are counted once. Package directions and doneness checks take priority.
How these estimates were calculated
- Mince garlic, prepare garnishes and measure ingredients: 5 min planning allowance (simple_prep)
- Bring pasta water to a boil: 10 min planning allowance (boil_heat)
- Cook dried wheat pasta: 10 min planning allowance (pasta_dried)
- Heat skillet while pasta cooks: 3 min planning allowance (pan_preheat)
- Stir in lemon juice, butter and seasoning: 3 min planning allowance (mix)
- Reserve water and drain pasta: 2 min planning allowance (transfer)
- Toss pasta with sauce: 3 min planning allowance (mix)
- Garnish and serve: 2 min planning allowance (garnish)
- Cooking overlaps other cooking or preparation; cooking subtotal omitted to avoid misrepresenting elapsed time.
- Assumes ordinary dried wheat pasta: 10-minute planning allowance. Follow the actual package; fresh or gluten-free pasta differs.
- 2–3 minutes per side, two sides. Assumes the listed peeled shrimp fits one skillet batch.
- Generic dry pasta chosen as type (spaghetti/linguine) and enrichment not specified.
- Peeled and deveined shrimp assumed to be raw.
- Olive oil: USDA tablespoon portion weight
- Garlic (minced): USDA cloves portion weight
- Minced garlic assumed to be raw.
- Red pepper flakes: USDA tsp portion weight
- Lemon juice: USDA cup portion weight
- Raw lemon juice chosen as no specific type (fresh/bottled) was indicated.
- Butter: USDA tbsp portion weight
- Salted butter chosen as no specific type (salted/unsalted) was indicated.
- Fresh parsley (chopped): USDA tbsp portion weight
- Chopped fresh parsley assumed to be raw.
- Unweighed Salt: only documented zero nutrients included
- Black pepper: USDA tsp, ground portion weight
- Black pepper: Seasoning allowance: 1/4 tsp per 4 servings
- Amount 'to taste' - using standard black pepper reference with no specified quantity.
- Pasta (spaghetti or linguine): 226.8 g · USDA reference 169736
- Shrimp (peeled and deveined): 226.8 g · USDA reference 175179
- Olive oil: 27 g · USDA reference 171413
- Garlic (minced): 9 g · USDA reference 169230
- Red pepper flakes: 0.45 g · USDA reference 170932
- Lemon juice: 30.5 g · USDA reference 167747
- Butter: 28.4 g · USDA reference 173410
- Fresh parsley (chopped): 7.6 g · USDA reference 170416
- Salt: documented zero nutrients only · USDA reference 173468
- Black pepper: 0.57 g · USDA reference 170931
shrimp · pasta · lemon · garlic
Estimated nutrition per serving
751 calories · 38.2 g protein · 87.8 g carbohydrate · 27.4 g fat
Source and basis: USDA FoodData Central SR Legacy (2018), ingredient-based calculation per serving. Standard USDA portion weights; all listed ingredient mass included before cooking losses. Nutrients with incomplete inputs omitted. Full ingredient matches and assumptions below.
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