Zesty Seafood Pasta

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I made this for Easter and got a family request to make it again for Mother’s Day. These amounts are for the family, so it makes quite a bit. The time took longer for me because of the amount of shrimp I had to peel, but if you cut this recipe down, it won’t take you so long. This time I also included crawfish. Oh ya’ll gotta try it! Enjoy!

Ingredients

  • 2 (16 ounce) packages extra-wide egg noodles
  • ¼ cup extra-virgin olive oil, or as needed
  • 1 onion, diced
  • 1 green bell pepper, diced
  • 2 stalks celery, diced
  • 5 cloves garlic, diced
  • ½ cup fresh parsley
  • 1 ½ tablespoons chopped fresh sage
  • 2 tablespoons chopped fresh basil
  • 1 lemon, zested and juiced
  • 2 (32 ounce) cartons seafood stock (such as Kitchen Basics®), divided
  • 1 teaspoon dried thyme
  • 1 tablespoon dried cilantro
  • ½ teaspoon dried dill weed
  • sea salt and ground black pepper to taste
  • 1 (12 ounce) package frozen peeled crawfish tails, thawed and undrained
  • 2 pounds peeled and deveined small shrimp
  • 3 tablespoons cornstarch
  • 1 cup half-and-half
  • 2 tablespoons Creole seasoning (such as Zatarain’s®)

Instructions

  1. Bring a large pot of generously salted water to a boil. Cook egg noodles in the boiling water
  2. stirring occasionally until cooked through but firm to the bite
  3. 5 to 10 minutes. Drain and transfer to a bowl.
  4. Heat olive oil in a large pot over low heat; cook and stir onion
  5. bell pepper
  6. celery
  7. and garlic in the hot oil until onion is lightly browned
  8. 15 to 20 minutes.
  9. Mix parsley
  10. sage
  11. basil
  12. and lemon zest in a bowl; stir into onion mixture. Cook until fragrant
  13. 2 to 3 minutes.
  14. Pour 1 cup seafood stock in a measuring cup and set aside; pour remaining stock and lemon juice into onion mixture. Stir in thyme
  15. cilantro
  16. dill
  17. sea salt
  18. and black pepper; cook until flavors have blended
  19. about 5 minutes. Add crawfish to seasoned stock mixture; cook until crawfish are heated through
  20. 3 to 4 minutes.
  21. Stir shrimp into crawfish mixture; cook until shrimp are pink and cooked through
  22. about 5 more minutes. Remove crawfish and shrimp from sauce using a slotting spoon; transfer to a bowl and cover.
  23. Whisk cornstarch into reserved 1 cup seafood stock until completely dissolved; stir into sauce. Cook
  24. stirring constantly
  25. at a simmer until sauce has thickened
  26. about 5 minutes.
  27. Mix half-and-half and Creole seasoning into sauce until fully incorporated and warmed; add crawfish and shrimp back into sauce. Toss sauce with egg noodles.

Prep Time: 30 mins

Cook Time: 45 mins

Total Time: 1 hr 15 mins

Servings: 12

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