Recipe : Creamy Seafood Pasta

Cooking a plate of "premium taste" pasta at home is actually very easy and much cheaper. We can adjust the taste with any ingredients that suit our taste and generate a "luxurious flavour".

CREAMY SEAFOOD PASTA

Good pasta does not require much ingredients. The basics are garlic, onion, basil, olive oil, salt, and pepper to taste. Chopped onion and garlic are used in making this creamy seafood pasta. 

Chopped Onion and Chopped Garlic

For the seafoods, very fresh white prawns and frozen scallops are used. Few leaves of sweet basil are added to the seafoods for flavour.

Fresh White Prawns, Frozen Scallops, Basil

Button or fresh shitake mushrooms are used as these mushrooms will lend more flavour.

Fresh Shitake Mushrooms

To get that creamy taste, butter will be a good choice. You can substitute with olive oil which is a much healthier choice but what’s a bit of butter, right?

Butter for Creamy Taste

For the pasta, spaghetti is used. If you are boiling spaghetti, remember to keep testing and tasting to make sure that you get the al dente texture which means "it's just right" texture ;)

Spaghetti

For the creamy seafood pasta recipe:

300 gm spaghetti – cook according to the instruction, usually add in a bit of salt during cooking, no oil added. After cooked, drain and leave aside.

4 large prawns

4 scallops (or fish or squid, whatever is fine)

4 cloves garlic and a small onion – chopped till fine

A few sprigs of basil or any type of dried herbs

Cream – 200 ml 

Bit of butter, salt, pepper, black pepper

Parmesan cheese – for sprinkling on pasta

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Methods :

1) Heat butter and add in chopped garlic and onion and fry till soft (do not brown)

2) Add prawns and seafoods, stir till change colour

3) Add in cream. Add a bit of water if too dry. Add herbs

4) Flavour with salt and pepper

5) Pour creamy seafood sauce over pasta and serve

READILY SERVED - CREAMY SEAFOOD PASTA

See? Just a few steps. And you get a really nice plate of pasta. Cooking pasta just take a bit of practice. Once you have tried a couple of times, you can experiment with any ingredients.

LETS MAKE A MOVE AND TRY TO MAKE IT !!

U WILL BE SURPRISED WITH YOUR OWN SKILL ;)