Omega-3 fatty acids have been proven to reduce risk of heart-attack and help to alleviate depression. This tasty dish uses shrimp and olive oil as main ingredients, foods that are high in omega-3's.
Many pasta pesto based recipes call for pre-made pesto that can be quite expensive to make or buy. Ingredients such as pine nuts add cost and calories to a pesto recipe. This recipe uses the bread you have on hand as a base for the pesto. The bread acts a thickener for the sauce. Use nutty grain bread or wheat bread when making bread crumbs for this recipe for added fiber.
If you have stale bread or extra bread ends that you don't use for sandwiches, take this opportunity to grind all of your extra bread pieces into crumbs. Store the bread crumbs in the freezer for use in other recipes.
Ingredients:
- 1 16 ounce bag of pre-cooked medium shrimp
- 1 16 ounce bag of medium sized bay scallops
- 1 slice of bread
- 2 to 3 medium tomatoes
- 1 cup dried tomatoes (optional)
- 1/3 cup minced garlic prepared or fresh
- 1/3 to ½ cup chopped fresh basil, or 2 to 3 tbsps dried basil
- ½ cup grated parmesan cheese
- ½ to 2/3 cup olive oil
- 1 16 box of fettucine or linguine
Directions:
- If shrimp are frozen, cover in water in microwave safe dish and microwave for 5 minutes on high setting. Remove tails and transfer back to the warm water so they don't dry out.
- Follow the same process for scallops if they are frozen
- Chop tomatoes and sauté in half of the olive oil and half of the basil
- Grind slice of bread to crumbs in food processor
- Remove shrimp from water and pat dry on paper towels transfer to saucepan with tomatoes and basil
- Add scallops to saucepan without patting dry
- Add optional dried tomatoes to saucepan
- Add garlic, bread crumbs, the rest of the basil, the rest of the olive oil, and the parmesan cheese
- Boil water in large pot and cook pasta until al denté
- Continue cooking sauce over medium to medium high heat for 5 minutes. Turn heat to low to keep sauce warm while pasta cooks.
- If sauce seems dry, add more olive oil
Serve scallop and shrimp pesto sauce over pasta.
Makes approximately 8 large servings
You can also freeze this recipe. If freezing left-over scallop and shrimp pasta pesto, thoroughly mix sauce with noodles and transfer to freezer bags.
If you're looking for other low -fat dinner seafood recipes loaded with omega-3's, try Easy Broiled and Baked Salmon Recipes, or The Best Tuna Noodle Casserole. Spinach Lasagna is also a good choice for a low-fat and healthy pasta dish.
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