Recipe: Delicious Creamed Spinach and Shrimp

Creamed Spinach and Shrimp. This Creamy Parmesan Spinach Shrimp will quickly become a new weeknight dinner staple! Protein rich shrimp are pan seared then tossed with a creamy spinach sauce that's perfectly flavored with fresh garlic and rich parmesan. Then finish it off with a bed of pasta and steamed or roasted asparagus or broccoli to complete the meal.

This Creamed Spinach and Shrimp can be eaten by itself for low carb - high fat. You can also serve this over pasta for those that are not eating low carb. This dinner is a fun twist on creamed spinach. You can cook Creamed Spinach and Shrimp using 9 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Creamed Spinach and Shrimp

1. Prepare of spinach.
2. Prepare of cooking cream.
3. Prepare of butter.
4. It's of salt.
5. Prepare of black pepper.
6. Prepare of onion diced.
7. It's of garlic diced.
8. It's of baby shrimp.
9. It's of parmesan cheese.

Add as much shrimp and spinach as you prefer. I usually double both because I like it full of spinach and shrimp with a light creamy sauce. In a saucepan, over medium heat, melt the butter. This pasta is from Southern Living's Editor's Choice Recipes.

Creamed Spinach and Shrimp step by step

1. preheat shrimp in microwave.
2. heat frying pan and add butter.
3. wait for butter to melt then add spinach.
4. when spinach wilts place in colander.
5. when drained of butter place back in frying pan and add garlic and onions.
6. after some time add cooking cream, cheese, salt, black pepper and italian seasoning.
7. add shrimp and stir thoroughly.

It is a one dish meal, and though written with shrimp, also works well with crawfish tails or diced cooked chicken breasts. Season the shrimp and use butter. If you have it, hit it with a splash of toasted sesame oil. I also grated some pecorino and mixed it with the shrimp. With the spices left from cooking the shrimp, the butter and sesame oil, it's delectable.