Scampi or Alfredo Sauce Recipes

Here are two basic recipes, one is a scampi sauce and the other is alfredo both are quick, easy and fabulous with pasta and some other additions we like with many suggestions below.


We love our scampi or alfredo with seafood, shrimp and crab are the two favorites.


For those who have allergies sauteed boneless chicken breast is the alternative of choice in our home, however you can substitute whatever boneless meats you prefer.


The first recipe is a Shrimp and Broccoli Alfredo that's a cream sauce with a hint of garlic.


The bonus recipe is a scampi butter and garlic sauce not creamy at all with shrimp and spinach.


Those are just suggestions of how we love these sauces tossed in pasta another favorite is Seafood Scampi with Lemon Sauce over pasta we make around the Christmas holiday.


I sometimes leave the sauces plain and split it since one son isn't a seafood lover and the other along with my husband loves seafood.


Mix and match, however, your family likes theirs with these easy quick sauces.


My Grandmother made a different style Authentic Alfredo that was a staple when she grew up in Italy and has no cream in it like the American version.


Scroll down to these two easy sauce recipes to print them off and you can use any pasta your family prefers.

Endless Variations To These Sauces

As I mentioned, the sauces are a basic recipe.


Anything can go into them and you can leave them plain for a vegetarian style or with any meat or seafood you like.


The sauces are unique in characteristic one being light and buttery with a little wine and the other sauce is thick and creamy.


Both are the perfect match over your favorite cooked pasta.

Ingredients You Will Need To Make Scampi or Alfredo Sauces

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Alfredo Sauce

• cooked pasta of choice drained
• Parmesan cheese
• heavy cream
• butter
• minced garlic
• salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste

Scampi

• white wine
• chicken broth or water or vegetable broth
• minced garlic plus 1 teaspoon granulated garlic
• olive oil
• butter
• salt, pepper and red pepper flakes to taste
• chopped fresh parsley and basil
• grated cheese
• your favorite pasta cooked to package instructions

Suggestions and Additions

Cooked boneless meats

• steak 
• chicken
• pork
• lamb

Vegetable Additions

• Steamed artichoke hearts
• Sauteed broccoli rabe
• Roasted asparagus

Seafood Cooked

• crab
• lobster
• scallops
• steamed mussels or clams or other boneless fish

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Either sauce is versatile and you can add and make this any way you like.


I would love to hear how you like you Alfredo sauce or Scampi sauce and additions you may like so please leave me a comment.


Again there is no right and wrong when getting creative adapting new recipes to how your family loves is all that matter so when reading the recipes stick with the basic sauce and refer to additions.

Scampi or Alfredo Recipe

Yield: 4

Author: Claudia Lamascolo

Prep time: 20 MCook time: 25 MTotal time: 45 M

Here are two sauces to make one is Scampi the other is Alfredo. Both can be made with Meat or Seafood or left plain with many suggestions given in the recipe. The variations or endless over any pasta you prefer.

Ingredients:

• Shrimp Broccoli Alfredo
• 1/2 pound cooked pasta of choice drained
• 2 cups Parmesan cheese
• 1 cup Heavy Cream
• 1 stick of butter (1/2 cup)
• 2 cloves of minced garlic
• salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste
• 2 cups of medium cooked shrimp
• 2 cup steamed broccoli florets
• Optional Variations and Additions:
• Cooked boneless meats
• steak chicken
• pork
• lamb
• Vegetables
• Steamed artichoke hearts
• Sauteed broccoli rabe
• Roasted asparagus
• Seafood
• crab
• lobster
• scallops
• steamed mussels or clams or other boneless fish

Instructions:

1. Shrimp Pasta Broccoli Alfredo
2. Melt the butter in a deep saucepan adding the garlic for 25 seconds. Do not brown garlic.
3. Add the cream, stir in the cheese.
4. Fold in the shrimp and cooked broccoli just until warmed.
5. Either place the pasta on a dish and spoon the sauce on top of it or it can be tossed with the pasta and served.
6. See Option below to add buttered breadcrumbs on top.
7. Bonus Recipe
8. Shrimp Spinach Scampi 
9. 1/2 cup white wine
10. 1/2 cup chicken broth or water or vegetable broth
11. 1 tablespoon minced garlic plus 1 teaspoon granulated garlic
12. 1/4 cup olive oil
13. 2 tablespoons butter
14. salt, pepper and red pepper flakes to taste
15. 2 tablespoons chopped fresh parsley and basil
16. grated cheese
17. 1 lb linguine or your favorite pasta cooked to package instructions
18. (cook 15 minutes before shrimp mixture is completed) drained
19. 1 pound of cooked shrimp with tails off or use sauteed boneless breast chicken cubed if you are allergic to fish.
20. Optional: a pinch of cayenne pepper 
21. In a large frypan add butter, 1 tablespoon olive oil, stir in the garlic and saute for 1 minute do not brown the garlic.
22. Add the wine, chicken broth, spices, rest of the olive oil, and spinach.
23. Cook until the spinach is wilted. 
24. Add the shrimp cook until heated around 4 minutes.
25. Add the fresh herbs and cheese, sprinkle on top of the pasta. 
26. Optional topping for either recipe on top of pasta last:
27. In a small fry pan saute 2 tablespoons butter and 1/4 cup Italian flavored bread crumbs.
28. Stirring until golden brown. Stir in the grated cheese add as a topping for this dish.

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Disclosure: This recipe was originally shared in 2015. It was edited and re-published in 2020.