OK, so probably you’re saying to yourself that all you can see in this dish are these gigantic shrimp. Â Me too!
I can explain this. I was craving fettuccine, but I got tired of chicken or bacon so I look in my freezer and I find these gigantor shrimp.
Seriously. That’s what the bag said, Gigantor Shrimp, and there were about 16-20 shrimp in the bag. Now let me backtrack a bit here. I’ve been determined to cook less portions of a meal. For example usually my dishes are for 4 to 6 people. There are only two of us here at JoCooks headquarters. And nobody here loves leftovers. So what do we do with a lot of the leftovers? Well we have a dog, but as you know we can’t give her people food, though we cheat sometimes and give her the meat and throw out everything else. But what the dog doesn’t get, the garbage does.
So I was determined here to only make two portions of this fettuccine. So I did. So this is what happened. You end up with very little fettuccine and a lot of shrimp.
Now if you want to make this recipe, you do not need these gigantor shrimp, nor do you need so many, unless they’re the real small ones. Needless to say these huge shrimp are amazing. I did want to prove to you that there was actually fettuccine in this dish, so here you go. It’s in there, underneath the gigantor shrimp.
Oh and I did not forget. Happy New Year my friends!
Ingredients:
- 4 oz fettuccine
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 1 tbsp butter
- 8 gigantor shrimp or 16 large shrimp
- 1 tbsp cajun spice (you can find recipe here)
- 2 tbsp flour
- 1 cup chicken broth
- 1 cup heavy cream
- 1/2 cup Parmesan cheese, grated
Instructions:
- Cook fettuccine according to package instructions.
- Clean the shrimp and season with 1 tbsp of cajun spice. Drizzle the flour over the shrimp and toss in a bowl to make sure each shrimp is covered in flour.
- In a deep skillet add butter and olive oil and heat over high heat. Add shrimp and cook on each side about 2 min until crisp. Remove shrimp from skillet and set aside.
- In the same skillet add chicken broth and heavy cream. Season with additional cajun spice if preferred. Cook until sauce thickens a bit from the heavy cream, then add Parmesan cheese and whisk. Add fettuccine and shrimp to the sauce and toss.
- Serve warm.
Enjoy!
Thank you for this recipe…I made it tonight and it was yummy…very quick, simple and easy….will be making it again…
You’re welcome, glad you liked it.
Girl! Slam dunk on this recipe! I love that there’s not 100 ingredients and that it’s so quick yet tastes like it was way more complicated
Made this for my picky eaters last night and it turned out great! Only thing is my sauce was a little too thin so I just added a few shakes of flour before adding the cheese. My first time using one of your recipes but not the last – Thanks and God bless 
Thanks Missy, glad you liked it.
My family LOVED this dish! So simple, quick and delicious!!! Thanks for the recipe!!
You’re welcome, glad you guys liked it.
I made this dish last night and it was a huge hit!! Absolutely delicious!!! I told my friends about it and had to print out 3 recipes for them!! Thank you for sharing this amazing dish!!
Hi Meg,
I’m so glad it was a hit.
This was delish but my sauce was thin. How long should it cook to thicken up? I had to remove it from heat for a bit while I soothed my crying toddler and thought maybe I messed up there. Other than that we all loved it!
Hi Shannon, it shouldn’t take longer than 3 minutes, and as soon as you add the Parmesan cheese it should thicken some more. Now if the sauce is still too thin you can add another tsp of flour and whisk it in, it should thicken up quickly.
What did you garnish with? Is that cilantro? Green onion? I can’t tell.
Hi Joy, that’s just parsley.
I am new to the cooking world. I tried your stuff shells and sex in a pan…LOVED IT!!!!!!!! please explain to me what heavy cream is. I will be making this on wedesday
thank you
Oh it’s like whipping cream, fat milk basically. I’m glad you loved the stuffed shells and the sex in a pan.
This look amazing!! I’m not sure if I’ll be able to find ‘Gigantor’ shrimp, but I’ll use what I can get!
Lol, any kind of shrimp will do Mercedes. Loved your favorites for 2012, some great recipes there. Happy New Year to you!
Thanks Jo! Happy New Year to you guys as well!
Yum, I love cajun spices on so many things – and shrimp fettucini is one of them! This looks great.