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Mom’s Seafood Pasta (Our Lee Lee 😊)

This seafood pasta is a special family recipe that my Mom has been cooking for years.  It feels so decadent because we always use lots of delicious seafood, but once you look at the recipe; you realize it really itn't that tough to make.  This was definitely the dinner growing up that if anyone had a birthday and got to choose the meal, this is what they picked and still is to this day.  Trust me on this one though, it is delicious and your guests will be WOWed!  I hope you all enjoy it as much as we do.
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Ingredients
  

  • 1 ½ tsp salt
  • 3 tbsp good olive oil
  • 2 tbsp butter
  • 4 green onions chopped
  • ½ tsp pepper
  • ¾ cup parsley
  • Zest of 1 lemon
  • ½ lemon sliced thin
  • ¼ tsp red pepper flakes
  • ½ cup fresh lemon juice 4 lemons
  • 1 ½ lbs linguine or angel hair
  • 3 tbsp minced garlic 9 cloves
  • 2 lbs medium Shrimp
  • Add any other seafood – lump crabmeat, small bay scallops, etc.

Instructions
 

  • Directions:
  • Boil linguine for 7-10 min in salted water.  Reserve 1 cup of pasta water.
  • Add all your seafood to a strainer and squeeze lemon over and season with Salt & Pepper and Slap Your Mama seasoning or any other seasoning you prefer.
  • Melt butter and add chopped green onions.  Add garlic, salt, and pepper.  Squeeze the juice of 1/2 a lemon.
  • Sauté shrimp and scallops until pink, then remove.
  • Add parsley, lemon zest, lemon juice, sliced lemon and red pepper flakes.  Add back in your seafood (including the lump crabmeat now if you are using that) and toss in pasta.  Use extra pasta water as needed for just the right amount of sauce.  Sprinkle with fresh parsley.
  • Toss and serve.

Notes

This seafood pasta is a special family recipe that my Mom has been cooking for years.  It feels so decadent because we always use lots of delicious seafood, but once you look at the recipe; you realize it really itn't that tough to make.  This was definitely the dinner growing up that if anyone had a birthday and got to choose the meal, this is what they picked and still is to this day.  Trust me on this one though, it is delicious and your guests will be WOWed!  I hope you all enjoy it as much as we do.