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Brown Butter Pasta with Shrimp

This brown butter pasta with shrimp will coat your taste buds with the nutty addition of browned butter. With a quick blanch of your favorite vegetables you can turn this meal into a quick meatless dish.

Course Main Dish
Cuisine California Greek
Keyword brown butter, pasta, shrimp
Servings 4
Author Mary Papoulias-Platis

Ingredients

Brown Butter

  • See recipe on blog.

Pasta

  • 1 pound whole wheat pasta
  • 1 pound large shrimp, cleaned and deveined
  • 2 tablespoons of butter
  • 2-3 cloves garlic
  • 1/4- 1/2 cup white wine
  • Salt and pepper
  • Parmesan cheese, grated for topping
  • fresh parsley, chopped finely

Instructions

Pasta

  1. Place a large pot of water on high and bring to a boil.
  2. Add the pasta and cook according to package instructions.
  3. While the pasta is cooking add 2 tablespoons of butter to a skillet.
  4. Add the minced garlic and saute for 2 minutes.
  5. Add the wine, shrimp and salt and pepper. Cook shrimp until pink in color. Set aside.
  6. Drain the pasta in a colander.
  7. Make the brown butter in the pot from the pasta. Recipe above.

  8. Add pasta to the brown butter and stir gently.
  9. Divide the pasta onto the plates and top with shrimp.
  10. Sprinkle with fresh parsley and cheese.