Shrimp Scampi
Shrimp Scampi

Hello everybody, it’s me, Dave, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special 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 favored of current trending foods in the world. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions every day. They are nice and they look fantastic. Shrimp Scampi is something which 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 must 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:
  1. Take 1/4 cup olive oil
  2. Prepare 1 lb shrimp any size, (peeled, deveined and tails removed)
  3. Get 4 clove garlic, minced
  4. Get 1/2 tsp dried hot-pepper flakes (optional)
  5. Get 1/2 cup dry white wine
  6. Make ready 1 tsp salt
  7. Get 1/2 tsp black pepper
  8. Take 5 tbsp unsalted butter
  9. Prepare 3/4 lb angel-hair pasta
  10. Make ready 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.

Instructions to make Shrimp Scampi:
  1. Bring a 6-8 quart pot of water to a boil.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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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