I decided to make this pasta dish for a few reasons. One, is since I make pasta every week, I was looking to switch things up a little, and secondly, I chose a dish with an ingredient that my husband loves which is capers.
Since I do 99% of the cooking in my house, my hubby sometimes doesn’t get to eat his favorite foods because I either don’t like it, or the kids won’t like it, or I just get stumped about what to make to include that ingredient.
When we watch Food TV, he’ll mention it if he sees something he likes, and I try to take a note of that so I can make more things for him. I googled “easy pasta with shrimp” and found this recipe from Cooking light.
8 oz. uncooked pasta (whatever kind you like)
1 pound peeled and deveined large shrimp (I used frozen that was already cooked)
1/4 fresh basil, chopped
3 TB. capers (drained)
2 TB. extra virgin olive oil
2 TB fresh lemon juice
1/2 tsp salt
2 cups baby spinach
Cook the pasta according to package directions. In the last minute, add the shrimp to warm it up, or if its not cooked, add it about 3 minutes before the pasta is done to the pasta pot.
Drain the pasta and shrimp and transfer to a large bowl.
Add the capers, the olive oil, lemon juice and salt (I added pepper too!)
On a plate, add some baby spinach on the bottom of the plate and add 1 1/2 cups of the pasta mixture on top.
*The only thing I did differently was added a little more lemon juice and I drizzled a little more olive oil on each dish and added a sprinkling of Parmesan cheese.
It turned out really good! Nice and light!
Per serving: 397 calories, 9.6 grams of fat, and 2.4 grams of fiber and 31 grams of protein.
****Also, I forgot to report my weigh in for last Friday!!! I lost another pound which makes my total 10 pounds! Yeah!!!
ALSO….Thanks to Cassie for bestowing this award to me!!!
ooohh I love capers too 🙂 sounds delish! Also– congrats on that 1 lb!! Woo-hoo!!
Yay Jennifer for losing 10 pounds – great job!!!
The lemon pasta looks great (sans shrimp) and I love the idea of layering fresh spinach on the bottom! Going to try this very soon!
I love capers too. I too don’t always make what everyone else likes if I don’t like it myself!
For example, my husband loves coconut, but I rarely make anything that uses coconut. I know – I’m a bad wife!!
Congrats on the weight loss!!!
Congrats on the 10 lbs.! That’s awesome.
This dish looks just up my alley – I love pasta with shrimp and lemon. I’m going to have to try it. I’m doing a cooking light recipe (with modifications) tonight. I’ll be posting it tomorrow. I love Cooking Light.
Delicious pasta with lemon basil shrimp! Congrats on losing 10 pounds! Cool!
Great job on the weight loss! 🙂
The pasta dish sounds delicious!
10 pounds! You rock!
and this dish is right up my alley. Yum!
This looks so delicious. I bought some frozen shrimp the other day and the bag said “deveined,” but they weren’t! It was the weirdest thing.
Fresh basil works wonders, I think 🙂
10 pounds is so awesome! Congrats.
Yum! That pasta looks awesome – great work on the weight loss, too!! I’ve never cooked with capers. Hmmmm. I don’t even know what they taste like!
Congrats on 10 pounds – that’s awesome!
Your pasta looks so light and delicious with that yummy lemon sauce!
Kudos on acheiving 10 lbs! I love lemon, and I am always amazed how lemon makes a dish so refreshing and vibrant in flavor. By the way, I saw on Sophia (Burp and Slurp)’s blog that you sent her a care package — so sweet of you to do!!