Hey everyone, it is Louise, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, shrimp scampi. One of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Shrimp scampi has to be one of the easiest ways to quickly prepare shrimp! We simply sauté the shrimp with garlic in butter and olive oil, splash it with some white wine, let the wine reduce while the. It's deliciously saucy, perfectly rich and buttery and amazingly flavorful!
Shrimp Scampi is one of the most favored of recent trending meals on earth. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. Shrimp Scampi is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook shrimp scampi using 10 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Shrimp Scampi:
- Make ready 1/4 cup olive oil
- Make ready 1 lb shrimp any size, (peeled, deveined and tails removed)
- Take 4 clove garlic, minced
- Get 1/2 tsp dried hot-pepper flakes (optional)
- Take 1/2 cup dry white wine
- Prepare 1 tsp salt
- Prepare 1/2 tsp black pepper
- Get 5 tbsp unsalted butter
- Get 3/4 lb angel-hair pasta
- Prepare 1 chopped parsley for garnish
Shrimp are served with linguine pasta in a white wine-and-butter sauce flecked with fresh parsley for a quick and impressive main dish. Scampi are tiny, lobster-like crustaceans with pale pink shells (also called langoustines). Italian cooks in the United States swapped shrimp for scampi, but kept both names. Shrimp scampi is a seafood and pasta dish that looks incredibly elegant but takes just minutes to cook and requires a few simple ingredients.
Steps to make Shrimp Scampi:
- Bring a 6-8 quart pot of water to a boil.
- Meanwhile, heat olive oil in a large skillet over a moderately high heat until hot but not smoking. Add shrimp and sauté turning over once until just cooked through, about 2 minutes and then transfer shrimp with a slotted spoon to a large bowl.
- Add garlic, wine, hot pepper flakes, salt and pepper to remaining oil in skillet and cook over high heat stirring occasionally about 1 minute. Add butter to skillet, stirring until melted, then stir in shrimp. Turn heat to low to keep warm.
- Cook pasta in boiling water until just tender, about 3 minutes. Reserve 1 cup pasta water, then drain pasta. Toss pasta well with shrimp mixture in a large bowl, adding a little bit of pasta liquid if necessary to keep moist. Garnish with chopped parsley and serve.
Too much olive oil in my opinion. I am also accustomed to most scampi recipes having some lemon so I added some lemon peel. Shrimp scampi is a seafood dish that consists of large prawns are sautéed in butter and garlic. Sometimes butter and olive oil are used together along with a variety of. A classic shrimp scampi linguine recipe that everyone will love.
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