Shrimp Linguini

Shrimp Linguini

Posted by Nerdyy

OK - maybe all of you forgot this

(Published in Golden Memories 10/15/2012)

 Marinara

Ingredients:

About 15 tomatoes from farmer nerdyys garden ( a mixture of cherokee purple, yellow pear, roma and early girl), diced
Two small onions diced
4 cloves of garlic crushed
Few basil leaves and marjoram from the garden

Heat 2 tbsp of oil in a heavy bottomed pan (heavy bottomed for equal distribution of heat). Add onions cook till translucent, add garlic cook till it gives aroma or fried garlic, add all the tomatoes and stir over high heat. Keep stirring till most of the liquid becomes thick, then put it on simmer for abt 30 minutes. At the end stir in the julienned basil and marjoram leaves.

At some later point of time this will become a meat sauce :)

This was stored in the freezer since last Fall, so last weekend I took it out and decided to make a Shrimp Linguini using the marinara sauce.

First the shrimp - lightly tossed in crushed garlic and extra virgin olive oil and grilled:

Shrimp on the Barbie (as the Aussies would say)

 Cook the pasta (Linguini) - takes about 10 mins in boiling water. Add a little salt to the boiling water (and a little extra virgin olive oil if you want). Take the pasta out and drain. Heat a little olive oil and add some crushed red peppers (dried) and some garlic from the marinade on the shrimp. Heat the marinara sauce and pour over linguini, add shrimp and toss together. Garnish with some chopped basil or parsley - both available in my garden :P

Linguini with Shrimp

The end product was a little smoky because of the grilled shrimp and the crushed red peppers. You can substitute the shrimp with zucchini and/or mushrooms.