Pesto Shrimp Pasta

This is one of our favorite, quick go-to meals.  We generally have all the ingredients on hand an it only takes as long to make as it takes to boil the pasta.

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Ingredients:

• 1 lb (450 g) of dry penné
• 340 g raw, unpeeled shrimp
• 270 ml Basil Pesto
• 2 onions
• 3-4 tomatoes

Steps:

• Cook penné according to directions, drain
• Drain off oil from the pesto into a frying pan

• Sauté onions till tender
• Add tomatoes and cook for 2-3 minutes, stirring constantly

• Add shrimp and continue to stir until cooked through and completely pink, about 3-4 minutes

• Add pesto and shrimp mixture to drained pasta

• Toss well and serve

Home Made Pasta

The July Daring Kitchen Challenge was to make home made pasta.  Be sure to check out my full post on my main blog.

Pasta:
Ingredients
2 cups semolina flour
1 tsp salt
1 tsp olive oil
2 large eggs

• Make a well of the flour and salt on your work surface

• Add eggs and olive oil to the well, mix into flour until a stiff dough is formed

• Wrap dough in plastic wrap and let rest in fridge for approx. 1 hour

• Divide dough into small portions, flatten into a disk and feed through pasta roller at widest setting.  Fold the dough in 3 and feed through again.  Repeat this step 5-6 times.

• Change the roller settings to a smaller width and continue to feed dough through.  Lower the setting with each pass.  You can cut the dough if it gets too long to work with.

• Once the dough is the desired thickness, pass it through the cutting end of the pasta machine.

• Hang pasta to dry.

Tomato, Basil, Brie and Fresh Pasta
Ingredients
Fresh Pasta
Cherry Tomatoes
Fresh Basil Leaves
Brie

• Quarter tomatoes.
• Remove stems from basil leaves, cut a Chiffonade
• Remove rind from Brie, cube.
• Cook Pasta - fresh pasta only takes 1-2 minutes. Drain.
• Toss tomatoes, basil and Brie with hot pasta till Brie is melted.
• Serve and enjoy.