I have always been a big fan of Alfredo sauce. Until last night I had never had it anywhere except restaurants. I decided that needed to change. I found a recipe for Peppered Shrimp Alfredo at allrecipes.com It sounded delicious, and had 125 reviews most of which were positive. Many reviewers said it was better quality then anything they had ever had in a restaurant.  That sold me on the recipe, so it was off to the kitchen to test it out.

I had never cooked with shrimp or prawns before, so I used precooked medium/large frozen shrimp.

I changed the original recipe slightly. I used white mushrooms instead of Portobello, parmesan cheese instead of Romano, and I added 1 ½ cups of baby spinach since it needed to be used up.

I did get a bit carried away with the cayenne pepper, misreading the 1 tsp of cayenne that the recipe called for instead thinking it said to taste. It was spicy but not too spicy and the garlic bread neutralized it a bit.

The penne turned out fabulous! This is one recipe I will be making again. I agree completely with the recipe reviewers, this recipe is way better then anything similar I have had in a restaurant.

I served the penne with green salad and garlic bread.

Do you have a favorite Alfredo recipe?