Easiest Way to Make Tasty Orzo pasta with shrimp

Orzo pasta with shrimp. The universal appeal of shrimp scampi, frankly, isn't the shrimp but the pan sauce: garlicky butter lightened with white wine and bursts of lemon, parsley and red-pepper flakes. Scampi is often tossed with pasta or served with crusty bread, but this version instead uses quick-cooking orzo. Create a bruschetta-style shrimp orzo pasta dish that will win rave reviews from the BBQ crew.

Orzo is pasta shaped like big grain of long rice. I made this recipe with what I had on hand, and it is very easy to make. The result of this recipe in one. You can cook Orzo pasta with shrimp using 16 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Orzo pasta with shrimp

1. You need 1 bag of frozen shrimp, defrosted and cleaned.
2. Prepare 1.5 cups of orzo pasta.
3. It's 1 of small can of tomatoes, I used chipotle seasoned.
4. It's 1/2 cup of frozen peas, defrosted.
5. It's 1 of lemon juice.
6. You need 1 of chopped shallot.
7. Prepare 1.5 cups of chicken broth.
8. You need 1.5 cups of water.
9. Prepare of Olive oil.
10. You need of Grated parmesan.
11. Prepare of Marinating shrimp:.
12. Prepare 1 tbsp of garlic podwer.
13. Prepare 2 tbsp of cumin powder.
14. Prepare 1 tbsp of red chilli powder.
15. You need of Juice of 1 lime.
16. You need of Salt.

My kids love Pasta and Broccoli, sometimes I make it as a main dish, but also makes a great side dish using any small pasta shape like orzo or ditalini which worked great in this. Diced tomatoes (yes, out of a can) combined with lots of garlic; shallots; white wine and lemon juice makes a simple sauce in which the shrimp bathes. And just as you expect of pasta, here orzo serves as the perfect bed for the glorious shrimp. Have you tried shrimp with orzo before?

Orzo pasta with shrimp instructions

1. Marinate the shrimp with the spices above mentioned in a bowl..
2. Take a wide bottomed pan, add olive oil, fry the chopped shallots and garlic until brown..
3. Add the uncooked orzo and fry till few of them turn little brown..
4. Add the broth and water,peas to the pan and bring it to boil.once it comes to boil, simmer it and cook it covered for 10 to 12 minutes..
5. Once the orzo is cooked, add the tomatoes and mix well..
6. Cook for few minutes and set a side. Mix in the lemon juice..
7. In a separate pan, cooked the shrimp with little oil, let all the water evaporate and cook however you like. If you like juicy, I suggest cooking for 5to6 mins after the water evaporates..
8. Once shrimp is cooked., arrange them on top of the orzo pasta in a bowl.
9. If you like, u can add bacon crumbles too..

Just one pot of pure comfort food. Well, it's a fast cooking kind of pasta. It looks like rice, but it's not. I have been cooking shrimp with orzo for years. Orzo Pasta (I used Lemon Orzo pasta for this recipe.