Community Pick
Shrimp Casserole
"Excellent buffet dish or for a light company supper with a green salad and rolls."
photo by limeandspoontt
- Ready In:
- 1hr
- Ingredients:
- 13
- Serves:
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8
ingredients
- 1 (16 ounce) package farfalle pasta
- 6 tablespoons butter or 6 tablespoons margarine
- 3 garlic cloves, smashed
- 6 tablespoons all-purpose flour
- 1⁄3 cup white wine or 1/3 cup chicken broth
- 2 3⁄4 cups half-and-half cream
- 1⁄2 cup clam juice
- 1 tablespoon seafood cocktail sauce (or ketchup)
- 3⁄4 teaspoon salt
- 1⁄4 teaspoon cayenne pepper
- 1 lb uncooked medium shrimp, peeled and deveined
- 2 teaspoons dried dill weed
- 3⁄4 cup freshly grated parmesan cheese
directions
- Preheat oven to 350°F.
- Grease 3-quart casserole.
- Cook and drain pasta as directed on package.
- Melt butter in 2 quart saucepan over medium heat.
- Cook garlic in butter 1 minute, stirring constantly.
- Stir in flour.
- Cook, stirring constantly with wire whisk, until smooth and bubbly.
- Stir in wine or chicken broth.
- Stir in half and half, clam juice, cocktail sauce, salt and cayenne.
- Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly, until thickened.
- Stir in shrimp, dill weed and 1/4 cup of the cheese.
- Stir shrimp mixture into pasta, pour into casserole.
- Sprinkle with remaining 1/2 cup cheese.
- Baked uncovered 35 to 40 minutes or until light brown and hot.
Questions & Replies
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Can this be made ahead and cooked later. -
How thick should the sauce be before shrimp is added?
Reviews
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This shrimp and pasta dish is of "very nice restaurant" quality. If I had not cooked it myself, I would have thought it was take-out!! My family loved it and my best friend said she was IMPRESSED!!! -
Awesome shrimp pasta dish. Definitely use half the pasta. It's always good to have a little extra sauce... much better than having dry pasta with no flavor. I used all the ingredients it called for and was very happy with the result. I brought it to a potluck at church and everyone was drooling over it. hehe... always makes a cook feel good. One quote was: "I could eat this all day." I agree... it really is tasty. Yum. -
Delicious !! after reading other peoples suggestions, went with 8oz mini bow tie pasta, all chicken broth instead of any white wine & clam juice, and 2% milk instead of half & half. We were not disappointed. Thank you for the recipe & thank you reviewers for your suggestions. -
Totally delicious. I'm eating leftovers for breakfast as I write this! I made with 2% milk instead of cream, and it was plenty rich! Used Pinot Noir and skipped the chicken broth. Also subbed italian seasoning for the dill, since I didn't have any. Lastly, I replaced the clam broth for a can of chopped clams, juice included. Like others, I used only half a box of pasta, and thought that was plenty. It looked watery at first, but absorbed a lot as it baked. One suggestion I would have is to undercook the pasta on the stove top, because it will cook more in the oven. Thanks very much! Great recipe -
Absolutely delicious and so easy to make. Follow this recipe exactly to get a restaurant quality meal. Will make again, this one's a keeper!
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Tweaks
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Really, really good! I got it down to 8 WW pts/serving by doing the following:light margarine instead of butter; chicken broth, not wine; f/f 1/2 & 1/2 instead of cream; 1/2 c parm, instead of 3/4 c. I also subbed dried parsley for dill because I didn't have any and added a few sprinkles of paprika and two fresh diced roma tomatoes to the mixture before putting it in the oven. Will definitely make this again! ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ Just an FYI update - I made this again last night and accidentally reversed the measurements for the chicken broth and 1/2 & 1/2. It was still good, but not as creamy and rich. This recipe would also be really good with ham or chicken instead of shrimp, if that's what you have on-hand.
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I made a few changes and because I was in a hurry I sauteed the shrimp and just mixed everything up and served it! I used milk in place of the 1/2 and 1/2 and didn't have clam juice so I used more wine. I forgot the cocktail sauce but it was so rich and tasty I didn't miss it.
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Add lemon juice/zest and increase cocktail sauce
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Delicious !! after reading other peoples suggestions, went with 8oz mini bow tie pasta, all chicken broth instead of any white wine & clam juice, and 2% milk instead of half & half. We were not disappointed. Thank you for the recipe & thank you reviewers for your suggestions.
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This was VERY good! I substituted all chicken broth instead of white wine & clam juice and 2% milk instead of half and half cream. I also didn't have cayenne pepper so I used red pepper flakes. I sauted a medium onion in the butter w/ the garlic. Based on suggestions I cut down the pasta amount by 1/2 and I also did not bake it. I cooked the shrimp in a little bit of olive oil and then dumped everything into my huge frying pan and mixed the pasta in at the end. Worked out perfectly! I took this dish to a covered dish event last night and everyone gave it a huge thumbs up!!!
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