Hey everyone, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, shrimp scampi. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Shrimp Scampi is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods in the world. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. Shrimp Scampi is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.
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!
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook shrimp scampi using 8 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Shrimp Scampi:
- Get 2 lb Shrimp (preferably Tiger Prawns)
- Get 1 tsp Red Pepper Flakes (more or less for your spice tolerance)
- Prepare 2 tbsp Butter
- Take 2 tbsp Extra Virgin Olive Oil
- Make ready 1/2 cup Chardonnay (Pinot Grigio works well with seafood too, or any white wine you like to drink)
- Take 1 bunch Italian Flat Leaf Parsley
- Get 1 each Lemon
- Prepare 3 clove Garlic
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.
Instructions to make Shrimp Scampi:
- Start with oiling the pan then sweating the minced garlic. Season lightly with salt and pepper.
- After about 2 minutes add the prawns and pepper flakes and let them cook on high heat just to give it color on both sides. Don't fully cook them yet, we just want some color. It should take 2-3 minutes.
- Once they have some color start removing them and set aside onto a plate.
- Now add the extra virgin olive oil, butter, and wine and let it reduce to about half it's volume. If you like more sauce just add more olive oil, butter, and wine and continue reducing.
- Once reduced add the half cooked prawns, rough chopped Italian parsley, lemon zest, and juice of half the lemon. Cook for about 1-2 minutes to finish cooking the prawns.
- Taste the sauce and season with salt and pepper if needed. If you cook the shrimp right they will have a nice crunch to them. Serve it as it is or over your favorite pasta. It also goes nicely with some warm crusty bread. Enjoy!
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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