Pasta with seafood, sun dried tomatoes and lemon
Ingredients
- 6 oz of your favorite pasta
- Olive oil
- 3 tablespoons unsalted butter
- 4 garlic cloves chopped fine
- 1/3 lb. fresh shrimp, peeled and de-veined
- 1/3 lb. sea scallops cut into bite size pieces
- ½ cup bottled clam juice
- 1/3 cup drained and finely diced sun dried tomatoes
- ¼ cup minced fresh parsley
- 1 lemon peel cut from a fresh lemon and made into fine julienne strips.
- Salt and pepper
- Grated Parmesan cheese
Directions
- Cook pasta al dente in large pot of boiling water.
- Drain pasta and mix with one tablespoon olive oil.
- In a large frying pan, melt butter and 2 tablespoons olive oil.
- Add garlic and cook at low heat for 3 minutes, stir occasionally.
- Turn up heat and add shrimp and scallops.
- Cook until shrimp turn pink and scallops are almost cooked, about 2 minutes.
- Do not over cook or shrimp will turn to rubber.
- Add pasta and clam juice to shrimp and scallop mixture, stir with large fork, cook until juice is absorbed.
- Turn off heat.
- Add tomatoes, lemon and the rest of the ingredients, stir thoroughly.
- Serve immediately with grated parmesan cheese.