This sun-dried tomato pasta recipe is dairy-free and low-cal. If you prefer your pasta with lashings of cream, Marry Me Shrimp pasta is the more decadent relative. The sauce shares these ingredients and adds tangy Parmesan cheese, heavy cream, and white wine. I do! This post contains affiliate links. When you purchase through our links, we may earn a commission.
Spaghetti and shrimp recipe
The sauce for this shrimp spaghetti is simple and delicate. It contains garlic, sun-dried tomatoes, tomato purée, chilli flakes and pasta water. Nothing more. It is not thick with cream or cheese, or fluid with passata. Its beauty lies in its simplicity and the pasta shape is chosen to best suit that. Italians, who do not pair dairy with seafood, and use tomato sparingly with it, opt for long flat pasta shapes like spaghetti or linguine. These, with a greater surface area, efficiently absorb the fragrant and fluid sauce, seeping deep into the pasta so every mouthful is evenly flavoured. What’s more, strand-like pasta entraps seafood; shrimp, clams, lobster tails, making them easily captured and twirled around a fork. The sauce may be delicate, but I don’t mean it’s without impact! A balance of sweet sun-dried tomatoes and warm red chilli flakes match up to briny prawns creating a satiating seafood pasta dish not far from a (trickier) traditional scialatiella allo scoglio.
Serving suggestions
This dish has all the elements of a complete meal: shrimp for protein, arugula for greenery, pasta for carbs. However, if you know me and my family, a pasta dish is never far from garlic bread. This no-knead focaccia is studded with garlic cloves, or to keep things quick and cheesy, stick with air fryer garlic bread. And while that jar of sun-dried tomatoes is open put it to good use with a side of Parmesan roasted broccoli.
Storage and leftovers
Neither spaghetti not shrimp should be stored and saved. There’s really little to revive a cold prawn or day-old spaghetti. My advice? Get it while it’s hot!
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