Quick Healthy Shrimp Dinner
20 minutes and very easy
Equipment
- skillet
Ingredients
- 2 cups rigatoni pasta or penne
- olive oil
- 3 tbsp chopped garlic
- 12 large shrimp
- 1/4 teaspoon black pepper
- 2 large handfuls fresh washed spinach
- 1 lemon half for the skillet half for serving
Instructions
- First, If your shrimp are frozen put them in a bowl of water and let them soften up a little while you get the other stuff going. Put a pot of water on for the pasta. This recipe works best with a cut form of pasta like the rigatoni that we are going to use tonight or penne. Go ahead and put the pasta in the pot of water right away. You don't have to wait for it to boil. Stir it a couple of times as it cooks. When the water has started to boil the pasta will be almost done.
- Put a skillet on at medium high and eyeball enough extra virgin olive oil to coat the bottom. Chop up the garlic and put it in the skillet. Add the shrimp and the black pepper. Lay the shrimp out so that they are laying on their sides. Squeeze some lemon juice on the shrimp. When the sides of the shrimp that are getting the heat from the skillet have turned pink, turn them over and cook the other side. When they are pink on both sides and opaque in the middle they are done.
- Add the cooked pasta to the skillet. If the pasta isn't quite done that is a good thing. Just put it in the skillet with a couple of tablespoons of the pasta water and let it finish with the shrimp as company. When the shrimp and the pasta are done add the spinach to the skillet. Turn and mix everything together. Cook it all until the spinach is as done as you like it. It won't take long so don't leave the scene.Then serve up and enjoy your Quick Healthy Shrimp Dinner.
Nutrition
Calories: 275kcalCarbohydrates: 50gProtein: 16gFat: 2gSaturated Fat: 1gCholesterol: 91mgSodium: 284mgPotassium: 237mgFiber: 3gSugar: 3gVitamin C: 30mgCalcium: 79mgIron: 2mg
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