We were looking for something easy and delicious for dinner tonight.  I knew I wanted to use shrimp, so I started there.  Scrounging around the fridge produced grape tomatoes and some frozen peas, so I came up with this yummy meal.

Ingredients:

• 1 bag frozen shrimp, thawed and shelled.  Salt and pepper shrimp before cooking.
• 1/2 cup frozen peas
• 1/2 cup grape tomatoes, sliced in half
• Coconut oil
• White wine
• Savory nutritional yeast flakes
• Parmesan cheese
• Pasta water
• Thin Spaghetti, cooked al dente’
• 1 Egg yolk, whipped with a fork and tempered with a few spoons of pasta water

Directions:

• In boiling, salted water, cook your pasta, saving 1 cup of pasta water
• In a large saute’ pan, heat coconut oil and sear shrimp on both sides until toasty.
• Add peas and tomatoes, saute’, then add some white wine and allow to cook through.
• Season dish using dashes of yeast flakes, parmesan cheese, and a bit of pasta water. Taste after each addition before moving forward, adjusting as needed.  Pasta water will add a bit of thickening, so take your time with this step.
• Drain pasta and add cooked pasta to shrimp mixture and toss to combine.
• Remove from heat and add whipped egg yolk to add in a bit of creaminess.
• Toss well and serve.  I like to top with parsley or minced chives.

This is one of those meals that can be thrown together fairly easily.  I like to keep bags of frozen shrimp and peas on hand.  If you don’t happen to have grape tomatoes in your fridge, you can substitute a small amount of sun-dried tomatoes (sliced thin) or leave them out altogether.  Play with your ingredients and come up with your family’s favorites. Enjoy creating your own version!