Dairy Free Shrimp Scampi Pasta
This is a light and delicious pasta dish. Normally, you hear Shrimp Scampi and you think of Butter but this recipe has no dairy but is just as good!
Ingredients
- Angel Hair or Linguine Pasta 4 servings linguine or 6 servings of angel hair pasta
- 1 lb shrimp, peeled and deveined
- ¼ tsp cayenne pepper or just sprinkle a little bit over the Shrimp
- 1 Tbsp bacon Grease *see notes
- 3 Tbsp olive oil
- 5 cloves garlic peeled and minced
- 5 Tbsp white cooking wine
- 1 pint cherry tomatoes cut into halves or thirds depending on size
- salt to taste
- ¼ tsp sugar
- juice from ½ a lemon
- ½ tsp freshly ground black pepper
- 1 Tbsp chopped Italian parsley or Basil
- shaved Parmigiano Reggiano (Parmesan cheese) optional
Instructions
- Heat up a pot of water, and cook the linguine or Angel Pasta according to the instructions on the package.
- Sprinkle the cayenne pepper to the shrimp. Set aside.
- Heat up a sauté pan and add the bacon grease or oil. When grease melts, or if using oil, when the add the olive oil. Stir in the garlic and the cherry tomatoes into the pan, stir to combine well., lightly sauté until aromatic before adding the shrimp into the pan.
- Sauté the shrimp until half cooked and then add the white wine, salt, and sugar.
- When the shrimp is completely cooked, add a few squirts of the lemon juice, black pepper, and chopped parsley or Basil to the linguine,
- shaved Parmigiano Reggiano cheese.
Notes
*We put our bacon grease in small mason jar after making bacon. If you don't have any bacon Grease then feel free to use just olive oil.