Pasta and noodles
Shrimp Pasta with Béchamel Sauce
A very tasty shrimp pasta in creamy béchamel — a family-friendly dish. Makes about 4–6 servings. Key ingredients: 500 g pasta, 500 g shrimp, milk, flour, and plenty of butter.
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Shrimp pasta with béchamel sauce is a delicious, family-friendly dish suitable for adults and kids alike.
Ingredients
- 500 g pasta of any available type
- 500 g shrimp
- Pinch white pepper
- 1 teaspoon garlic powder
- Pinch ground cinnamon
- Pinch seven-spice mix
- Pinch salt
- 4 cups liquid milk
- 1/2 cup flour
- 300 g butter
Method
- Boil the pasta with olive oil and salt.
- Rinse the shrimp and place it in a skillet with 1 tablespoon butter and a pinch of garlic powder; sauté the shrimp for 3 minutes or until it turns pink.
- Put the butter in a pot over the heat with the flour and stir well, then add the liquid milk, salt, white pepper, seven-spice mix and garlic powder.
- Stir the ingredients well until the milk thickens slightly.
- Place the cooked pasta in an ovenproof dish and add the white sauce prepared earlier.
- Also add the cooked shrimp over the pasta and the white sauce.
- You can add crushed breadcrumbs on top of the dish if desired.
- Place the shrimp pasta baking dish in a preheated oven at 180°C for just 15 minutes.
- You can serve the shrimp pasta with white sauce alongside bread spread with garlic and butter.
- This easy and tasty shrimp pasta with white sauce recipe is from a friend and cook of Sho Tabkhin Al-Yawm website.
- Therese Qadri Abu Hanna
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- For Therese’s successful recipe for hazelnut ghraybeh, click this link: Hazelnut Ghraybeh
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