Italian Shrimp Pasta with Spinach and Asiago Cheese is super flavorful Italian pasta dish that is ready and on the table in under 30 minutes. Bursting with flavor, this creamy garlic shrimp pasta is a perfect main dish recipe the whole family will love.
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❤️ Why you'll love it
One pot recipe: the entire shrimp pasta recipe is cooked in the same pot, making clean up a breeze.
Simple ingredients: this recipe is made with ingredients you likely have in your pantry.
Quick and Easy: fans of shrimp pasta recipes will love this quick meal!
What You Need To Make Italian Shrimp Pasta
Dry pasta: use your favorite shape, I used bowtie pasta, but a spiral pasta or cavatappi would be great as well.
Raw Shrimp: peeled and deveined
Olive oil
Fresh baby spinach
Cherry tomatoes
Fresh garlic cloves
Asiago Cheese: is similar to parmesan cheese but not quite as dry.
🔪 Instructions
- Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil over high heat. Add the pasta and cook until tender but still firm to the bite, stirring occasionally, about 8 to 10 minutes. Drain pasta reserving ½ cup of the pasta water.
- Heat olive oil in the large pot the pasta was cooked in over medium heat. Add garlic and cook until fragrant, about 2 minutes.
- Add the shrimp and cook 2 minutes on each side, until almost done.
- Add the spinach and tomatoes, cooking for 2 minutes more, until the shrimp is opague, and spinach has wilted.
- Add the cooked pasta and toss.
- Stir in the cheese, salt, pepper, and the pasta cooking liquid.
🥄 Equipment
Large pot
Colendar: for draining the pasta
Tongs: for tossing ingredients together
🥫Storage
Refrigerate: store leftovers in an airtight container up to 4 days.
Freezing this recipe is not recommended.
Reheat: gently reheat on the stove top in a large pot until warmed through, or in the microwave in a microwave safe bowl until warmed.
📖 Variations
- Chicken broth can be substituted for pasta water (if desired), just be sure to heat the broth until hot first.
- Substitute chicken or bay scallops for shrimp.
- Use ½ cup tomato sauce for the cherry tomatoes (you need just enough to add flavor, not sauce).
- Substitute parmesan cheese for the asiago cheese.
💭 Top Tips
- Reserve 1 tablespoon of the olive oil and toss it with the cooked pasta to keep it from sticking together while you are preparing the rest of the meal.
- Measure the cherry tomatoes before cutting them in half.
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Italian Shrimp Pasta Bowl
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Ingredients
- 8 ounces bow tie pasta
- 1 pound raw shrimp
- ¼ cup extra virgin olive oil
- 1 garlic clove minced
- 9 ounces spinach , roughly chopped
- 1 cup cherry tomatoes halved
- 1 cup grated Asiago cheese
Instructions
- Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil over high heat. Add the pasta and cook until tender but still firm to the bite, stirring occasionally, about 8 to 10 minutes. Drain pasta reserving ½ cup of the pasta water.
- Heat olive oil in the large pot the pasta was cooked in over medium heat. Add garlic and cook until fragrant, about 2 minutes.
- Add the shrimp and cook 2 minutes on each side, until almost done.Add the spinach and tomatoes, cooking for 2 minutes more, until the shrimp is opague, and spinach has wilted.
- Add the cooked pasta and toss.
- Stir in the cheese, salt, pepper, and the pasta cooking liquid.
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