Bacon Shrimp Pasta With Pesto

🧂 Ingredients

• 16 oz cooked elebow pasta
• 15 detailed shrimp
• 3 strips of bacon
• 3/4 cup of Gouda cheese
• 1/3 cup pesto
• 1/2 cup of milk
• 1 tbsp minced garlic
• seasonings up to personal preference: garlic powder, parsley, cilantro, nutritional yeast

Instructions

• 1 Fry bacon on medium heat in a deep pan until it is crisp. You can remove some
  grease as it cooks and put it in a small bowl to save for later. Remove bacon
  from pan and place on plate with paper towels to dry up the grease.
• 2 In the same bacon grease pan, add in shrimp. If needing more lubricant in the
  pan, spoon previously removed bacon grease back into pan. Cook shrimp on medium
  heat and season with garlic powder. They will be cooked when their tail curls.
  Remove from pan and add to plate with bacon.
• 3 In same pan used previously in steps 1 and 2, cook minced garlic in the grease
  until brown. Can add more grease if needed. Add in milk and cheese. Stir until
  melted.
• 4 Add in pesto. Season with the seasonings. Stir. Add in shrimp. If desired, cut
  shrimp in half before adding. Crumble bacon and add it to this mixture.
• 5 Pour cooked pasta onto mixture. Stir. Serve your Bacon Shrimp Pasta hot.

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