This collection of pasta recipes with shrimp offers a scrumptious range of family-friendly weeknight dinner ideas. The recipes are easy to accomplish using largely familiar ingredients. If you enjoy seafood, along with lobster tail, shrimp is one of the easiest and fastest to get ready. The pasta ingredients in the recipes range from small pasta to regular long pasta such as spaghetti.
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Gear for Cooking Pasta with Shrimp Recipes
- Shrimp Deveiner – for cleaning shrimp and removing the vein.
- Tongs – for handling pasta and shrimp whilst cooking.
- Non-stick pan – for stovetop frying of shrimp and other ingredients.
- Skillet – for cooking shrimp on the stovetop.
- Cast Iron Pan – for cooking shrimp on the stovetop.
- Paring Knife – for cutting shrimp and removing the vein.
- Slotted Spoon – for making meatballs to serve with pasta and shrimp.
- Meat Thermometer – for checking if the interior of the shrimp is cooked.
Pasta Shrimp Recipes
1. Sausage and Pasta Recipe with Shrimp
- Ready In: 35 minutes
- Serves: 6-8
- Cuisine: Italian
- Method: Stovetop
- Course: Dinner Main
- Calories: 334.4kcal per serving
- Carbs: 12.5g per serving
We kick off this collection of pasta recipes with shrimp with this scrumptious one-skillet family-suitable shrimp and sausage pasta. This is a filling dish on its own on account of the pasta for starch and the shrimp and Italian sausage for protein.
The shrimp is first deveined before use and the sausage is first browned in a skillet making sure the interior is well cooked. Use a meat thermometer to check this. Serve the final dish with lettuce salad as a side and/or with garlic bread. Roast vegetables would also go well with this recipe.
On the pasta, any type of pasta will shine in this dish from penne to rotini or good old spaghetti. This is a lovely dish. It tastes great and takes very little time to make with limited cleanup due to single skillet use.
Other ingredients in this recipe are garlic, diced tomatoes, olive oil, and minced basil among others. If you enjoy Italian sausage, we also suggest this collection of Recipes with Italian sausage.
2. Chicken Thighs and Shrimp Pasta Recipe
- Ready In: 40 minutes
- Serves: 6
- Cuisine: Italian
- Method: Stovetop
- Course: Dinner Main
- Calories: 656kcal per serving
- Carbs: 50g per serving
If you are looking for something elegant yet tasty, perhaps for a special occasion, and above all straightforward to make, this is a winner. This recipe combines skinless and boneless chicken thighs with fettuccine pasta and shrimp.
In there, along with other ingredients, is Cajun seasoning which adds a compelling flavor to the dish, especially when combined with the Parmesan cheese in the recipe. What you really get with this recipe is a quick and easy-to-make weeknight dinner meal that is suitable for the whole family.
Much of the cooking action of this dish will take place in a skillet on the stovetop. Other ingredients which make this dish happen include bell peppers, white wine, chicken broth, garlic, and parsley for garnishing. Just as chicken features in this dish, it also features in many other places. For that, we suggest this delicious collection of Casseroles with Chicken.
3. Spaghetti and Meatballs Recipe with Shrimp
- Ready In: 1hr. 35 minutes
- Serves: 6
- Cuisine: American
- Method: Stovetop
- Course: Dinner Main
Although the title of this recipe has meatballs, in reality, these are actually not meatballs. The “meatballs” you get to make and eat in this tasty recipe are meatless and made from a combination of panko, cheese, fresh basil, and scallions shaped into meatballs.
What you then get as a result are succulent meatballs with pasta and shrimp paired with a good dose of red sauce. As such this recipe is in two parts, the red sauce and the meatballs each with its own set of ingredients.
This recipe produces a complete meal that is ready to serve immediately once it is ready. Admittedly, it is frankly a long recipe to reproduce and thus may not be suitable to make during busy weeknights. If you crave real meatballs, we suggest this collection of Recipes with Meatballs.
4. Spaghetti with Prawns and Bok Choy
- Ready In: 35 minutes
- Serves: 2
- Cuisine: American/Asian Inspired
- Method: Stovetop
- Course: Dinner Main
This is an easy-to-make pasta recipe with shrimp dish that also takes less time to accomplish. The recipe features two main vegetables – Bok Choy and red cherry tomatoes. These vegetables bring color to the final dish along with fresh parsley and scallions.
Shrimp, Bok choy, and tomatoes are added to a pan with sautéed ginger and garlic. The whole wheat spaghetti used in this recipe is cooked separately by boiling for up to 10 minutes.
Other ingredients that bring flavor to the dish and lastly added when the final dish is served are sesame seeds and red pepper flakes. The pasta is served first on the plates and topped with shrimp, Bok choy, and cherry tomatoes.
It may surprise some that Bok choy found its way into a pasta and shrimp dish like this. Well, it is a versatile vegetable. We suggest this collection of Recipes with Bok Choy for more ideas on Bok choy applications.
5. Shrimp With Sweet Potato Noodles
- Ready In: 30 minutes
- Serves: 2
- Cuisine: American
- Method: Stovetop
- Course: Dinner Main
- Calories: 327kcal per serving
- Carbs: 12g per serving
This recipe proposes pasta with a difference. The pasta in this recipe is actually sweet potato noodles spiralized from a sweet potato. The sweet potato is peeled, spiralized, and then cooked in a large enough skillet until tender. Sweet potato noodles can be substituted with real pasta of your preference.
The anchor ingredients in this recipe are sun-dried tomatoes, spinach, sweet potato noodles, and shrimp. Other ingredients going into this recipe include olive oil, garlic powder, chicken broth, unsweetened almond milk, grated Parmesan, and parsley among others.
When all is cooked and ready, the sweet potato noodles are served on plates first and then topped with shrimp. If you enjoy the versatility of sweet potatoes, we suggest this collection of Recipes with Sweet Potatoes.
6. Bucatini Pasta Recipe with Shrimp Scampi
- Ready In: 45 minutes
- Serves: 4
- Cuisine: American
- Method: Stovetop
- Course: Dinner Main
This delicious recipe utilizes spaghetti-looking bucatini pasta. This essentially refers to thick pasta that resembles spaghetti with a hole in the center. The pasta is first cooked by boiling in a large pot with salted water and set aside.
The remaining work in the recipe is focused on the shrimp. A suitable size skillet is used for this purpose. Ingredients going into cooking the shrimp include red pepper flakes, minced garlic, dry white wine, salted butter, and fresh parsley among others. In the final stages of the recipe, the shrimp is tossed with the pasta to complete the dish. This is a quick dish to make and very much suitable for weeknight dinners.
7. Garlic Butter Mushroom and Pasta Recipe with Shrimp
- Ready In: 15 minutes
- Serves: 4
- Cuisine: American
- Method: Stovetop
- Course: Dinner Main
- Calories: 507kcal per serving
- Carbs: 44g per serving
Of all the pasta recipes with shrimp in this collection, this is the quickest recipe to make. Shrimp and mushrooms have always been a delicious and extremely flavorful combination. What’s more, garlic and mushrooms bring even more flavor to this pasta with shrimp dish.
The shrimp are simmered in mushroom butter sauce from whence they gain their flavor. Concerning pasta, there are no strict rules here on which one to use. Although this recipe uses fettuccine, you could use spaghetti, penne, or bow-tie pasta.
Many of the pasta available out there work just fine in this recipe. Other ingredients that will go into this recipe include white onion, unsalted butter, black pepper, chicken or vegetable stock, and minced garlic. The final dish will be the shrimp tossed in the noodles and garnished with chopped parsley. Yum!
8. Cheesy Garlic and Pasta Recipe with Shrimp
- Ready In: 20 minutes
- Serves: 5
- Cuisine: American
- Method: Stovetop
- Course: Dinner Main
- Calories: 663kcal per serving
This recipe faithfully delivers a cheesy pasta and garlic shrimp dish. The key element in the recipe is the homemade Alfredo sauce which ties everything together to create a deliciously creamy dish. Being a 20-minute dish, you can count on this recipe for weeknight dinners even on rotation.
Do not let the Alfredo sauce intimidate you, it is super simple to make, a product of cream cheese combined with flour and milk roux. You will need a skillet for this recipe. While the pasta is cooking, the sauce is made to which the shrimp is added. Towards the end of the recipe after going through a few more steps, the already cooked pasta will be added to the creamy sauce with the shrimp. The end result is a complete, family-friendly, and filling dish.
9. Cheese and Shrimp Pasta Bake
- Ready In: 1hr. 10 minutes
- Serves: 8
- Cuisine: Mexican
- Method: Oven
- Course: Dinner Main
This is a tried and tested delicious Mexican pasta recipe with shrimp that delivers an oven-made crusty-looking and inviting dish. The recipe calls for short and small pasta. Other ingredients going into the dish are Anaheim chilis, ripe on the vine tomatoes, garlic, unsalted butter, Oaxaca cheese, añejo cheese or parmesan, and scallions.
The recipe begins by preparing the Anaheim chilis. The chilis are later combined with other vegetable ingredients in the recipe and cooked in a skillet. Eventually, the already cooked pasta, sauce, and shrimp are combined in a skillet and topped with the cheeses before going into the oven for a few minutes.
The skillet will leave the oven with a golden brown-looking dish that is sprinkled with scallions before serving as a complete meal. This recipe takes a bit of time to make and may not be suitable for busy weeknight meals.
10. Cold Shrimp Pasta Salad
- Ready In: 50 minutes
- Serves: 8
- Cuisine: American
- Method: Stovetop
- Course: Lunch/Dinner Side Dish
- Calories: 363.2kcal per serving
- Carbs: 26.8g per serving
This collection of pasta recipes with shrimp would be incomplete without the inclusion of a pasta and shrimp salad. This is exactly what you get with this recipe made using simple and fresh ingredients. Although suitable to serve as a complete and filling dish, the recipe considers the outcome a cold side dish.
Macaroni pasta is utilized in this recipe and is the first to be cooked by way of boiling. Other ingredients which go into the recipe include bell pepper, peas, mayonnaise, white vinegar, and dill among others.
The shrimp is added in this recipe already cooked and thus its cooking time does not count. The mayonnaise is an integral part of the dish as it will coat all the ingredients and tie them together. The salad is refrigerated for some 30 minutes before serving.
11. Macaroni Noodles Pasta Recipe with Shrimp
- Ready In: 16 minutes
- Serves: 4
- Cuisine: American
- Method: Stovetop
- Course: Lunch/Dinner Side Dish
- Calories: 411kcal per serving
- Carbs: 53g per serving
For good measure, this is another pasta and shrimp salad recipe that takes even less time to make compared to the foregoing one. Serve this chilled as a side dish or a complete dish. The recipe calls for small shrimp and small pasta such as macaroni or shells although any pasta type would work just as well.
Furthermore, the recipe is in two parts, the salad, and the dressing. Going into the making of the dressing is fresh lemon juice whose role is to add a little tanginess to the dressing as well as fresh dill for some freshness.
Mayonnaise is also an important part of the dressing which ties all the aspects of the dish together. Due to the mayonnaise and the shrimp, the dish must be kept chilled particularly in warm weather. To save even more time, the recipe can be made a day in advance and the shrimp added before serving.
12. Tomato Shrimp Pasta Recipe
- Ready In: 30 minutes
- Serves: 6
- Cuisine: American
- Method: Stovetop
- Course: Lunch/Dinner
- Calories: 509kcal per serving
- Carbs: 71g per serving
This recipe produces a delectable tomato-based pasta with shrimp dish. It is a suitable weeknight dinner recipe that only needs 30 minutes to get ready. The resulting meal is a scrumptious combination of spaghetti, shrimp, and a rich savory tomato-based sauce.
Added to the dish for a zing are red pepper flakes and dry white wine. First to cook is the pasta. Whilst it is cooking then the shrimp for just a minute until they turn pink. The next step is the making of the sauce which is best when homemade.
Finally, all three are combined and finalized as a unified and tasty dish. If you wish to put this dish on rotation, to save even more time, the sauce can be made in bulk and stored in an airtight container in the fridge for up to 5 days. If frozen, the sauce can store for up to 5 months!
13. Double Shrimp Pasta Recipe
- Ready In: 30 minutes
- Serves: 4
- Cuisine: American
- Method: Stovetop
- Course: Lunch/Dinner
- Calories: 734kcal per serving
- Carbs: 46g per serving
To live up to its name, this pasta recipe with shrimp calls for ordinary shrimp and store-bought breaded shrimp- thus a double shrimp pasta recipe. The breaded shrimp is oven-baked and later used to top the pasta dish.
Other key ingredients going into the dish are penne pasta, mushrooms, Parmesan, Romano, Roma tomatoes, and Asiago-herb sauce. After all the components of the recipe have been cooked and ready, the final dish will be the pasta coated in creamy cheese and topped with the breaded shrimp.
14. Crispy Shrimp Pasta Recipe
- Ready In: 30 minutes
- Serves: 2
- Cuisine: American
- Method: Stovetop
- Course: Lunch/Dinner
- Calories: 559kcal per serving
- Carbs: 50g per serving
This is a delicious pasta recipe with shrimp that produces Cajun-seasoned fried shrimp combined with fettuccine pasta. At only 30 minutes of cooking time, you have a family suitable weeknight dinner idea in this recipe. Using the original ingredients listed, the recipe produces a meal that feeds 2.
It can be easily scaled up to feed more by doubling or increasing the ingredients. The pasta is cooked by boiling while the shrimp is lightly coated in flour and seasoned for brief stovetop frying.
Other ingredients in this recipe are olive oil, butter, whipping cream, chicken broth, and black pepper which are combined to create the dish in a single skillet. Serve this dish with garlic bread or baby potatoes if desired.
15. Bacon Pasta Recipe with Shrimp
- Ready In: 25 minutes
- Serves: 4
- Cuisine: Italian
- Method: Stovetop
- Course: Lunch/Dinner
- Calories: 628kcal per serving
- Carbs: 47g per serving
Last but not least on this collection of pasta recipes with shrimp is this absolutely delicious bacon pasta and shrimp dish. The recipe ticks off all the important boxes i.e. elegant but easy to make, familiar ingredients, weeknight suitable. The bacon angle in this recipe is especially interesting because it introduces a lovely smoky bacon flavor to the dish.
For this reason, the bacon is cooked first in a frying pan that will later be used to cook the shrimp and produce the rest of the recipe. The rest of the dish will pick up bacon flavor from the dripping left in the aftermath of cooking the bacon. The pasta used in this recipe will be spaghetti although a variety of other long pasta will also do well. The dish can be served with crusty bread and/or a green salad.
Conclusion
The foregoing collection of pasta recipes with shrimp demonstrates that pasta and shrimp can work together in a variety of ways to create delicious dishes. This combination offers complete filling dishes that are quick and easy to make and feed any desired number of people.
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