Tiger Prawn Alfredo Pasta

Wow! What a wonderfully amazing shrimp pasta dish! The ingredients can totally be changed to your liking so it’s a great one to experiment with. It’s cream, delicious and tastes like you were out in a fancy restaurant.

Ingredients -

1 Jar Alfredo Pasta Sauce (16 ounce)
1 Package Angel Hair Pasta (8 ounce)
2 Pounds Fresh Tiger Prawns (peeled and deveined)
1 Cup Butter (melted)
1/2 Small Green Bell Pepper (diced)
1/2 Small Red Onion (finely chopped)
1 Teaspoon Garlic Powder
1/2 Teaspoon Ground Cumin
Salt
1 Tablespoon Extra Virgin Olive Oil

Preparation:

1. Over low heat in a saucepan, heat the Alfredo sauce.

2. Add ½ teaspoon salt to a large pot of cold water.

3. Bring to a boil.

4. Add pasta and cook for 8 minutes or until al dente.

5. Drain in a colander.

6. Boil the shrimp in a large pot of water until they just turn orange.

7. Then place them in bowl with the melted butter.

8. Let the shrimp marinate for 15 to 30 minutes then remove.

9. Over medium heat in a large skillet, sauté the green pepper and onion in the Extra Virgin Olive Oil.

10. Mix together the cooked pasta, shrimp, pepper-onion mixture and Alfredo sauce.

11. Season with garlic powder and cumin.

12. Serve Immediately.

Cooking Tip

Steamed Artichokes

I love to serve this dish with steamed artichokes as a side dish. You might want to start them early. It take approximately 35 to 45 minutes to steam a large artichoke to perfection so that the leaves are tender and you can easily pull off the leaves and eat the tender goodness inside. Serve it with 2 dips, first being melted butter with garlic and fresh ground black pepper and the next use mayonnaise with a little horseradish in it. You will love the different combinations.

Cooking Tip

Tiger Prawns

Obviously I am partial to using Tiger Prawns in this recipe but you can change the shrimp to chicken if you like. It is absolutely awesome with tofu if you are a vegetarian! Or if you are really in the mood for a treat make a mixture of shrimp and scallops. Just fry the scallops right along with the shrimp…..make sure to flip them at about the same time…they take approximately the same time to cook. I came up with this on my own one night. You can change the amount of ingredients to your taste or liking.