Easy Shrimp Spaghetti

This easy, one-skillet Shrimp Spaghetti Recipe is big on flavor and ready in just 20 minutes. A simple, yet delicious shrimp sauce is easily tossed with spaghetti for an impressive dish! With our step-by-step photos and a video, we’ll show you how easy it is to make this seafood dish.

Tell Us About This Easy Shrimp Spaghetti…

• Time: It is an easy recipe even if you’re not a cook, you can pull this one off with confidence. Once you gather the 6 ingredients needed, you can make this simple dish in a matter of minutes.
• Flavor: The shrimp is simmered in a few fresh ingredients that create a flavorful sauce. Then the sauce coats the strands of the spaghetti which makes this Italian seafood dish so enjoyable to eat.
• Elegant Enough: This simple recipe is ideal to serve your family; plus, it is elegant enough for a small dinner party, or a date night. (It is similar to our spicy shrimp recipe, also made in one skillet). And, it is such a favorite – you may want to keep it on your regular dinner rotation.

Overview: Ingredients You Will Need

For this easy shrimp spaghetti recipe, you will need the following ingredients:

1. Shrimp: Choose either fresh or frozen raw shrimp. Make sure the shrimp is peeled and deveined and rinsed under cold running water for a few minutes.

2. Fresh Ingredients: Italian dishes are always exquisitely flavorful when fresh ingredients are used. You will need: cherry tomatoes, cloves of garlic, and fresh Italian parsley are the simple ingredients that make the flavors pop with this shrimp dish.

3. Additional Ingredients: Choose good quality extra virgin olive oil, drinking white wine, crushed red pepper flakes, and sea salt are also used to flavor the shrimp.

How to Make Easy Shrimp Spaghetti?

Our full printable recipe card is located at the bottom, along with our video! But let’s run through our easy-to-follow steps, so you’ll understand what’s involved before you start.

1. FIRST STEP: Prepare the shrimp: rinse the shrimp under running water for a minute or more, then allow the shrimp to drain well in a colander.
2. SECOND STEP: Prep the veggies for the sauce. Dice the garlic, slice the cherry or grape tomatoes in halves, and finely chop some parsley.
3. THIRD STEP: Make the sauce. In a skillet, you will need to sauté the garlic in olive oil for a minute or more to flavor the oil. Then add the tomatoes, red pepper flakes, fresh parsley, and sea salt, and simmer for a few minutes, until the tomatoes soften.

4. STEP FOUR: Add the shrimp. Toss in the shrimp and sauté until the shrimp is fully cooked. Use a fork, or kitchen tong to flip each one over to the other side, until they are cooked through. When shrimp is fully cooked, turn off the heat, and stir an additional 2 tablespoons of extra virgin olive oil into the shrimp sauce. Taste the sauce, and adjust for salt.

5. FINAL STEP: Boil the spaghetti: Bring a large pot filled with water to a boil. Toss the spaghetti and 2 teaspoons of salt into the water. Cook the spaghetti until al-dente, and with the kitchen tong, gently (and carefully) pull the spaghetti out of the pot with water, and transfer it to the skillet with shrimp. Then toss with the sauce until blended, then serve.

Helpful Tip! If you need to add some of the pasta water to the shrimp sauce, you can. Use a ladle to grab some and pour it into the skillet. This will help to loosen the spaghetti while you stir it with the shrimp.

WATCH OUR VIDEO: How To Make Easy Shrimp Spaghetti? (1-minute)

A Delicious Seafood Dinner

Our easy shrimp spaghetti recipe is ideal for a delicious dinner. This recipe will make 4 servings. Serve it with a leaf green salad as a side, and some crusty Italian or French bread to soak up some of that delicious sauce. Oh, and don’t forget to serve with some chilled dry white wine and dinner is done.

Try this recipe, you love it as much as we do!

Enjoy!

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Have a Delicious Day! 🙂

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