Pasta with zucchini and shrimp an easy-to-make creamy first course perfect to serve even on special occasions. To prepare the pasta with shrimp and zucchini, you will need very few ingredients and you can prepare the sauce in advance. You can cook the shrimp and the zucchini cream even the day before, then combine them with the pasta at the last moment, once you have prepared the zucchini cream you just need to store it in the fridge. Instead of paccheri with zucchini and shrimp cream, you can use spaghetti or even a short pasta shape like penne or rigatoni. If you also love pasta with zucchini, I recommend trying other PASTA WITH ZUCCHINI recipes. Now let’s see how to make pasta with zucchini and shrimp, and if you try it, let me know. Barbara

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Difficulty: Very easy
Cost: Economical
Preparation time: 10 Minutes
Portions: 4
Cooking methods: Stove
Cuisine: Italian
Seasonality: All seasons

Ingredients

11.3 oz pasta
2 zucchini
10.6 oz shrimp
1 clove garlic
to taste extra virgin olive oil
to taste salt
to taste pepper

Tools

Parsley Chopper
Blender
Food Processor

How to make Pasta with zucchini and shrimp

Let’s start preparing the Pasta with zucchini and shrimp, wash the zucchini, trim them, and cut them into pieces,
pour a clove of garlic and some extra virgin olive oil into a pan,
add the zucchini,
the parsley,
a splash of water and cook for 10 minutes. Pour water into a pot, put it on the heat, bring to a boil, add salt, pour the pasta, and cook it al dente.
In the meantime, clean the shrimp, remove the shell, cut the back with a knife and remove the black vein of the intestine, then wash them under running water.
Pour the previously cooked zucchini into the blender jar, keep some pieces aside that will be used to compose the final dish,
add some extra virgin olive oil
and blend everything until you have a cream.
Pour the shrimp into a pan,
a splash of extra virgin olive oil,
some salt and pepper and cook for 2 minutes, turning them.
Pour the pasta into the pan with the shrimp, mix and let it absorb the flavors,
then add the zucchini cream and mix with some pasta cooking water,
add a little at a time until you get a creamy and well-bound pasta.