The Best Quick Shrimp Scampi Recipe: You can make an excellent shrimp scampi meal at home that tastes better than what you’ll get at the restaurant with just a few easy ingredients and helpful instructions! In ten minutes, ready.
The Best Quick Shrimp Scampi Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 pound large shrimp, peeled and deveined
- 4 to 5 large garlic cloves, minced
- Kosher salt
- 3 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
- ½ to 1 teaspoon red pepper flakes, or more to your liking
- 3 to 4 tablespoons unsalted butter
- ¼ cup dry white wine, or use broth if you don’t want to use wine
- juice of ½ lemon
- ¼ cup fresh parsley, chopped
- zest of 1 lemon
Instructions
- After drying off the shrimp, place them in a mixing dish. Add one tablespoon of extra virgin olive oil, half of the garlic, and a pinch of kosher salt. To mix, toss. Refrigerate for 30 to 1 hour, or set aside for 15 to 20 minutes.
- Heat the remaining olive oil in a large cast-iron skillet over medium-high heat. Add the marinated shrimp mixture when the oil begins to shimmer. Sear the shrimp for 1 to 1 ½ minutes on each side, or until they start to take on color.
- Take off the shrimp and place it on a dish; don’t worry if some of it is still a touch gray; it will cook through when you return it to the skillet.
- Now add the remaining garlic and red pepper flakes to the skillet and heat for a short while, just until fragrant, being careful not to brown the garlic. Cook for a few minutes until the wine and lemon juice have reduced by half.
- Melt the butter after adding it.
Toss the shrimp to coat and return them to the pan. Give the shrimp a few minutes to thaw completely, allowing any gray ones to turn pink.
- Remove from the fire and stir in the parsley, lemon zest, and additional red pepper flakes, if desired. Serve right away.
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Nutrition
- Calories: 268.7kcal Carbohydrates: 3.2g Protein: 15.9g Fat: 20.3g Saturated Fat: 7g Polyunsaturated Fat: 1.6g Monounsaturated Fat: 10gTrans Fat: 0.4g Cholesterol: 165.5mg Sodium: 650.7mg
- Potassium: 184.9mg Fiber: 0.3g Sugar: 0.4g Vitamin A: 857.1 IU Vitamin C: 8.1mg Calcium: 77mgIron: 0.7mg
Notes
- As shrimp scampi cooks quickly, make sure you have sides or salads ready before adding the shrimp to the pan.
- Serve it with toasted bread or spaghetti. If you decide to use pasta for this garlic butter shrimp recipe, choose a long pasta like linguine, spaghetti, or angle hair.
- Increase the sauce by twofold! It is a good idea to double the sauce if you plan to serve it over rice or pasta, so you have extra to mix with it.
- Low-carb serving suggestions: instead of spaghetti or bread, try serving them with cauliflower rice or zucchini noodles.
FAQs AND QUESTIONs
How to make shrimp scampi
- It’s not difficult to prepare a dinner at home that rivals any restaurant. With just a few extra steps, garlic butter shrimp scampi may be prepared in under 30 minutes. If you have some extra time, be sure you marinate the shrimp. This is how it works:
- Prepare and marinate the shrimp. Pat the shrimp dry and toss them with salt, half of the garlic, and some olive oil. Set aside.
- Cook the shrimp. Cook the shrimp in the olive oil for 1 to 1 ½ minutes on each side, until it just begins to turn pink (it’s totally fine if there is some still grey remaining, it will finish cooking later). Remove from the skillet and set aside.
- Make the scampi sauce. Briefly cook the remaining garlic and red pepper flakes, then add the wine and lemon juice. Cook until reduced by ½, then add the butter.
- Add the shrimp. Add the shrimp back to the pan and toss to coat. Allow to warm through and for any grey shrimp to turn pink. As soon as that happens, immediately remove the pan from the heat.