Ultimate Shrimp Scampi

  4.6 – 259 reviews  • Italian

This mouthwatering recipe for ultimate shrimp scampi will melt in your mouth. It is elevated with the addition of avocado and Asiago cheese!

Prep Time: 25 mins
Cook Time: 15 mins
Total Time: 40 mins
Servings: 4

Ingredients

  1. 1 (16 ounce) package angel hair pasta
  2. ½ cup butter
  3. ½ cup minced onion
  4. ¼ cup lemon juice
  5. 4 cloves garlic, minced
  6. 1 tablespoon chopped fresh parsley
  7. 1 teaspoon dry white wine
  8. 1 teaspoon salt
  9. ½ teaspoon black pepper
  10. 1 dash Worcestershire sauce
  11. 1 pound peeled and deveined medium shrimp
  12. ½ cup Asiago cheese, diced
  13. 1 large avocado – peeled, pitted and diced

Instructions

  1. Bring a large pot of lightly salted water to a boil. Cook pasta in boiling water until tender yet firm to the bite, 2 to 3 minutes; drain.
  2. Melt butter in a large skillet over medium heat. Add onion, lemon juice, garlic, parsley, white wine, salt, pepper, and Worcestershire sauce; cook and stir until mixture bubbles. Increase heat to medium-high and stir in shrimp. Cook and stir until shrimp turn pink and opaque, about 5 minutes.
  3. Serve shrimp scampi over pasta. Sprinkle with Asiago cheese and avocado to serve.

Nutrition Facts

Calories 792 kcal
Carbohydrate 73 g
Cholesterol 246 mg
Dietary Fiber 9 g
Protein 36 g
Saturated Fat 19 g
Sodium 1345 mg
Sugars 4 g
Fat 41 g
Unsaturated Fat 0 g

Reviews

Lisa Warner
Followed recipe exactly, made for two people, smells nice, easy recipe. There was a LOT of minced onion that didn’t present well with the pasta (it clumped and looked odd). I would recommend shredding the asiago cheese and adding it before you serve to make more of a sauce, rather than the cubes of cheese. The avocado was a fresh touch to this light recipe. As written I wouldn’t make this again but with a few tweaks, I think it might be better. – August 2023
Anna Brown
I followed the recipe, and added black olives and sundried tomatoes. It came out great. I also added a splash of truffle oil
Daniel Parker
Huge hit with ALL love this recipe.
Alyssa Houston
Delicious, fresh and light. The boyfriend loves it!
Jack Campbell
I’ve made this many times as written, maybe adding extra wine now and then, so I can justify the five stars. But, last night I got a notion to add about 1/4 cup of chopped dried tomatoes when adding the shrimp. They soften up nicely and add luscious bits of tartness to the dish. It’s still five stars!
Olivia Williams
Way too much garlic and lemon juice. I will keep looking.
Shane Castillo
Excellent, made it exactly to the recipe with the exception of the white wine, and Worcester’s sauce as the wife does not like either. Came out great! I did combine the noodles with the shrimp mixture in the pan for a couple of minutes to get a good mixture.
Chad Newman
Delish! Made it exactly as recipe. So so good.
Kathleen Lopez
We had a lot of pesto angel hair pasta made, so the rating is for the shrimp scampi-good stuff! Cheese on the noodles was kind of brilliant too-
David Winters
Did this for my wife… Mother’s Day, turned out great minus the avocado… she does not like avocado. I did use approximately 4 oz of the pasta water for more sauce.
Tammy Clark
This was delicious and so easy to put together!
Stacy Montes
Great flavor! Made it per the recipe but did not add avocado. The sauce is terrific!
James Edwards
This recipe was delicious! I accidentally added an additional two tablespoons of butter (oops!), but I have a feeling that made this dish even better! I did feel that there was too much pasta for the amount of sauce that was in the pan, so I ended up only adding in about 3/4 of the amount of cooked pasta that the recipe called for. This is definitely my favorite shrimp scampi recipe!
James Thomas
It was great! Easy too. I’ll definitely be making it again and sharing the recipe. Absolutely loved it.
Ian Mitchell
Very bland. Very poor shrimp scampi recipe. Asiago cheese and avocado added absolutely nothing to the quality of the meal. Very little lemon taste plus addition of 1 teaspoon of dry white wine was absolutely worthless. Would not recommend this to anyone
John Wheeler
Amazing taste!! I didn’t have Asiago cheese so I used Parmesan instead. Highly recommend:)
Preston Garcia
Great recipe gathered everything for 4 servings accidentally when I meant 2. Only used half of the noodles for 4 servings and tossed them with everything. the flavor was great. Looking back if a whole pack was used in this 4 servings I think it would be very dry.
Roy Ford
Very tasty, however, next time I will only use 8 oz of spaghetti. This recipe didn’t have enough juices for the full 16 ozs.
Katherine Maynard
Very good – I didn’t have Asiago so just sprinkled on parmesan. Other than that, made as written. Could probably use a bit more seasoning.
Brandon Merritt
Delicious and easy to make. We loved it.
Jeanne Woods
I didn’t have shrimp so I used langostines. I also added broccoli florets, half butter, half olive oil. extra garlic and onions. Loved it!

 

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