Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, shrimp scampi. One of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Shrimp Scampi is one of the most popular of current trending meals on earth. It is appreciated by millions every day. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Shrimp Scampi is something that I have loved my whole life.
Add the shrimp, lemon juice, pepper and oregano; cook and stir until shrimp turn pink. This quick scampi is perfect over pasta or by itself with fresh-squeezed lemon. You can serve easy shrimp scampi on top of hot fettuccine or angel hair pasta, then sprinkle the finished dish with chopped fresh parsley and Parmesan cheese.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have shrimp scampi using 11 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Shrimp Scampi:
- Get 3 tbsp Butter And Olive Oil
- Make ready 4 clove Minced Garlic
- Get 1 lb Large Shrimp peeled and deveined
- Make ready 1/3 cup Parsley chopped
- Make ready 1/2 each Lemon zest (no white part)
- Make ready 1/4 cup Lemon juiced
- Make ready 1/2 each Lemon sliced thinly rounds
- Take 1/4 tsp Red pepper flakes
- Make ready Salt and pepper
- Get 1 lb Linguini pasta
- Get 1/4 cup Salt for water
This is like eye candy when presented in a warmed ramekin dish with some chopped parsley and a sprinkle of Parmesan cheese added to the top. Hubby says this is his favorite scampi and better than any he gets at an upscale restaurant. 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.
Steps to make Shrimp Scampi:
- Start pasta water over heat. Salt the water.
- Sauté pan add the butter and olive oil to medium to low heat. Sauté garlic for just a minute. Toss in shrimp to just pink. Salt and pepper. Add pepper Flakes. This only takes 2 minutes. Immediately take of the heat. Toss in parsley and lemon jest, juice and slices. Taste it.
- After your pasta is done (to instruction of package), scoop out of the water to Shrimp and sauce. Keep your Pasta Water to add if you Scampi needs moisture.
Thus the dish was born, along with inevitable variations. Cook linguine according to package directions. Meanwhile, in a small nonstick skillet, cook garlic in butter and oil until golden. This shrimp scampi is perfect for a weeknight dinner yet exciting enough for entertaining guests on the weekend. It's a simple dish made with a handful of flavorful ingredients that all come together and compliment each other perfectly.
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