Shrimp Pasta Recipe
A nicely flavoured Chinese style shrimp pasta cooked in a flavourful sauce. This sauce has fresh ginger, sesame oil, garlic, soy sauce and brown sugar. Actually, the mixture of soy sauce, garlic and brown sugar takes this shrimp pasta to the top level of perfection.
Servings 4 servings
Calories 315kcal
Ingredients
- 300 g shrimp peeled
- 300 g pasta
- 3 tbsp olive oil
- 1 bell pepper chopped
- 1 carrot grated
- 2 tbsp cilantro chopped
- 300 g mushrooms sliced
Sauce
- 1&½ tsp sesame oil
- ⅓ cup soy sauce
- 1 tbsp oyster sauce
- 4 cloves garlic minced
- 2 tbsp brown sugar
- 1 tbsp fresh ginger minced
Instructions
- Mix brown saugar, minced ginger, oyster sauce, minced garlic, soy sauce and sesame oil then set aside.
- In a pot full of salted water, cook the pasta until fully cooked.
- In a large skillet, add olive oil and all the mushrooms to cook for 1 minute then add the bell pepper, carrot and cilantro also, add half of the sauce then continue cooking for another 2 to 3 minutes.
- Stir in the shrimp and cook for 4 more minutes.
- After that, add the pasta and the other half of the sauce keep stirring for another 2 minutes. Serve hot.
Nutrition
Serving: 1serving | Calories: 315kcal | Carbohydrates: 18g | Protein: 21g | Fat: 18g | Saturated Fat: 3g | Cholesterol: 189mg | Sodium: 2197mg | Potassium: 711mg | Fiber: 3g | Sugar: 13g | Vitamin A: 3817IU | Vitamin C: 50mg | Calcium: 138mg | Iron: 3mg