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Shrimp Pasta with Béchamel Sauce

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.

Total time30 min
Prep10 min
Cook20 min
Yield8 servings
DifficultyEasy
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Pasta and noodlesInternationalVegetarianNut freeEasyQuick cook

Recipe story

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

  1. Boil the pasta with olive oil and salt.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. Stir the ingredients well until the milk thickens slightly.
  5. Place the cooked pasta in an ovenproof dish and add the white sauce prepared earlier.
  6. Also add the cooked shrimp over the pasta and the white sauce.
  7. You can add crushed breadcrumbs on top of the dish if desired.
  8. Place the shrimp pasta baking dish in a preheated oven at 180°C for just 15 minutes.
  9. You can serve the shrimp pasta with white sauce alongside bread spread with garlic and butter.
  10. This easy and tasty shrimp pasta with white sauce recipe is from a friend and cook of Sho Tabkhin Al-Yawm website.
  11. Therese Qadri Abu Hanna
  12. Click Therese’s name to visit her page on our site.
  13. For Therese’s successful recipe for hazelnut ghraybeh, click this link: Hazelnut Ghraybeh
  14. For more Arabic sweets, here are the pages

Notes and serving ideas

  • Ghraybeh with Hazelnuts
  • Al-Suffouf
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