Hey everyone, it’s Drew, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, shrimp scampi. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Shrimp Scampi is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods in the world. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. They are nice and they look fantastic. Shrimp Scampi is something that I’ve loved my whole life.
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 recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have shrimp scampi using 12 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Shrimp Scampi:
- Prepare 1 pound medium-large raw shrimp, shelled, deveined, tail-on
- Take 2 Tbs. olive oil
- Get 2-3 Tbs. butter
- Take Dash Salt
- Get 1/2 cup zucchini, finely chopped
- Take 1-2 garlic cloves, mashed
- Prepare 1/2 Tbs. red pepper flakes (or more)
- Prepare 1/2 cup dry white wine
- Get 4 Tbs. parsley, chopped finely
- Prepare 1 Tbs. lemon juice
- Make ready Dash black pepper to taste
- Take 1 plum tomato, seeded, finely chopped
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:
- Prepare the shrimp. Place in a colander and rinse. Allow to dry in the refrigerator for 10 minutes while prepping the other ingredients.
- Heat a large sauté pan on medium-high heat. Reduce to medium and add olive oil and butter. Swirl the butter and olive oil around in the pan. Let the melted butter foam a bit. Add a dash of salt if using unsalted butter.
- Stir in the zucchini and sauté for 2 minutes. Add the garlic and red pepper flakes. Sauté for an additional minute.
- Add the shrimp in an even layer in the pan, cook for 1 minute, and add the wine. Stir to coat the shrimp. Increase the heat to medium-high and boil the wine for 3 minutes.
- Gently stir to turn the shrimp over to cook on the other side. Continue to cook for another 2 minutes.
- Remove the pan from the heat. Sprinkle the shrimp with parsley, lemon juice, black pepper, tomato pieces, and toss to combine.
- Place the pan over low heat and cover for 1-2 minutes.
- Remove the pan from the heat and pour the pan ingredients and juices over prepared pasta in a bowl or on plates.
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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