Recipe: Yummy Spicy Creamy Shrimp & Crab Manicotti

Spicy Creamy Shrimp & Crab Manicotti. Shrimp in a spicy cream sauce to be served as an appetizer with hot-baked French bread (for dipping), or over fettuccini (as a not-so-light meal). Fun to prepare in front of guests as a prelude to a nice seafood dinner! Use any hot pepper you like, Cajun seasoning, or even hotter!

This creamy, spicy garlic shrimp recipe is SO easy to make, I think I just might start eating shrimp every day. I love serving flavorful sauteed shrimp both for dinners and appetizers. This Spicy Creamy Shrimp Pasta Recipe is simply spaghetti made heavenly with a white wine, Parmesan cream sauce. You can cook Spicy Creamy Shrimp & Crab Manicotti using 18 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Spicy Creamy Shrimp & Crab Manicotti

1. It's 1 box of Manicotti cooked al dente.
2. Prepare 1 of egg lightly beaten.
3. It's 10 oz of cooked large shrimp chopped.
4. Prepare 10 oz of lump crab meat chopped.
5. You need 1 of small white onion minced.
6. It's 1/2 cup of ricotta cheese.
7. You need 1/2 cup of shredded mozzarella.
8. Prepare 1/4 cup of mayo.
9. Prepare 2 tbs of milk.
10. You need 1 tsp of Cajun seasoning.
11. You need 1/2 tsp of ground Habanero.
12. Prepare of Sauce.
13. Prepare 1/4 cup of butter.
14. It's 1/4 cup of flour.
15. You need 1 tbs of minced garlic.
16. Prepare 4 cups of milk.
17. Prepare 1/2 cup of grated Parmesan.
18. Prepare to taste of Salt & Pepper.

Then spiked with paprika, cayenne, thyme and garlic. Just add sauteed shrimp and you've got a beautiful dinner that you'll want to make over and over again. Then add cream, chili powder, cayenne pepper, pepper flakes and salt. Bring to a boil, and then put heat to medium high.

Spicy Creamy Shrimp & Crab Manicotti instructions

1. Cook pasta to al dente, drain and cool.
2. Mix remaining ingredients in a mixing bowl until thoroughly combined..
3. Stuff mixture into manicotti tubes. Place in a baking dish and chill in refrigerator for an hour..
4. In a medium sauce pan, melt butter and add garlic over low/medium heat and sauté for about a minute. Add flour to make a rue. Slowly add milk while stirring constantly. increase heat to just over medium and stir occasionally until sauce thickens. Do not boil. Add grated Parmesan and stir occasionally for about 5 mins. Sauce will continue to thicken..
5. Remove stuffed manicotti from refrigerator and pour 3/4 of the sauce over manicotti until mostly covered. Bake @ 350° for 25 mins or until bubbly..
6. Remove from oven and let sit for 5 mins uncovered. Serve on a plate and use remaining sauce to top along with fresh parsley (optional).

Combine milk and flour and mix well until there are no lumps. Add into the sauce to thicken and let boil again. Gradually add the half-and-half or milk to the shrimp mixture. Reduce the heat to low and continue to cook until thickened. Shrimp in cream sauce is not the only shrimp recipe that I make often.