Hey everyone, it is Jim, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, shrimp scampi. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. 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 well liked of current trending foods on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. Shrimp Scampi is something which I have loved my entire life. They are fine and they look fantastic.
To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have shrimp scampi using 9 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Shrimp Scampi:
- Make ready 1 dash kosher salt
- Take 1 dash black pepper
- Prepare 2 tbsp unsalted butter
- Prepare 1/4 cup sauvignon blanc
- Make ready 1 medium lemon-freshly squeezed juice
- Prepare 2 tsp parsley, freshly chopped
- Get 1/4 tsp lemon zest, grated
- Take 2 clove garlic, minced
- Make ready 1 1/2 lb Jumbo shrimp, shelled and deveined
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:
- Put the shrimp on a large platter and pat them completely dry with paper towels. Arrange the shrimp so they lay flat and in a single layer.
- Heat a large skillet over medium heat. Season the shrimp with salt and pepper. Add the butter to the skillet. When the foaming subsides, raise the heat to high, and invert the plate of shrimp over the pan so the shrimp falls into the pan all at once. Or you can put them into the pan one by one. But if you do, turn the heat to low until you get all the shrimp in. Then turn up the heat to medium.
- Cook the shrimp, without moving them, for 1 minute. Add the garlic and cook for 1 minute. Turn the shrimp over and cook for 2 minutes. Transfer the shrimp to a bowl.
- Return the skillet to the heat and pour in the Sauvignon Blanc and lemon zest. Boil the liquid until slightly thickened, about 30 seconds.
- Scrape up any browned bits from the bottom into the pan with a wooden spoon.
- Stir the lemon zest and parsley into the sauce. Pour the sauce over the shrimp, season with salt and pepper to taste and toss to combine.
- Enjoy. Serve with garlic baguettes! See my recipe for garlic baguette.
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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