Garlic Butter Shrimp Recipe
This garlic butter shrimp recipe is easier than you think, made with wine or without will be the highlight of your dinner table. Elegant, garlicky, and buttery, serve as an appetizer, in pasta, over rice.
Ingredients
- 1 ¼ pounds raw large shrimp prawns, peeled with or without tails on
- 2 tablespoon of olive oil
- 4 tablespoon butter
- 5 garlic cloves minced
- ½ cup white wine or seafood broth, sub with vegetable or chicken broth
- Salt and pepper to taste
- ½ teaspoon red pepper flakes
- 2 tablespoon lemon juice freshly squeezed
- ⅓ cup parsley chopped
Instructions
- Melt 3 tablespoons of butter and add olive oil in a large nonstick pan over medium heat. Stir constantly for butter not to get brown.
- Once melted, add garlic and saute just until fragrant (30 seconds). Add prawns and cook until they start to turn light pink. (This will happen very fast!). Season with salt and pepper.
- Add broth and red pepper flakes, turn heat to medium-low. Simmer until the liquid is reduced in half.
- Finally, add the remaining 1 tablespoon of butter, squeeze in lemon juice, and stir in parsley. Serve immediately.
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