Butter Garlic Shrimp Noodles to warm you
Preparation time: 17 minutes
There was a single meal I loved with a passion while I was in University. This was a dish that was fast and unassuming, it was just shrimp with onions, lemon and noodles. One day a chef showed me that if you swiped the garlic butter dipping sauce from the pizza section, he’d cook it into the dish and it became magical. They only served this every other week on Monday, but you better believe I always got it. And now that they don’t serve it anymore, I can for myself.
Ingredients
2 oz serving of linguine (or however much you want, lord knows I love a lot of pasta!)
~1/8 cup vegetable broth
~1/8 or so cup cooking oil (I used oil for marinading or grilling)
5-6 tailless large cooked shrimp
1/4 of an onion
2 tbls butter
Garlic powder to taste
Optional Ingredients
1 (or more, go crazy you fiend) hard boiled egg (this will add to prep time for time to boil an egg)
Lemon for spritzing
Prep
Take a pot with water to boil your noodles. Add a pinch of salt to add some taste
Set the noodles to about 13 minutes to boil if you add them in before the water is boiling (I do it this way and I honestly don’t know if it’s recommended. I also break mine in half. What of it?)
Chop your onions while the water is going
Add the oil and broth to a skillet on medium-low heat (if you’re really going for timing, do this when there is about 5 minutes left on the noodles)
Add the shrimp (if your shrimp was frozen, soak in cool/room temp water to unfreeze first) and onions to the oil and let soften. You want the shrimp to start turning brown
When the noodles are done, drain
Add the noodles to the skillet and reduce the heat to low
Add the butter and the garlic sauce to taste
Stir and mix this around until the butter is melted and everything is warm. This will take about 2 minutes the garlic will get fragrant.
Afterthoughts
This tasted just as good as I remembered. The butter and garlic powder made a great creamy texture that coated the noodles. I had too much broth and oil in mine but it was alright. This didn’t ruin the taste so don’t worry if you do the same. I love shrimp and onions a lot so this dish is a winner. I always add the hard boiled egg which gives a weirdly not out of place taste that tips it’s hat to the rest.
