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Easiest Way to Make Award-winning Shrimp Scampi

 ·  ☕ 3 min read  ·  ✍️ Willie May
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Shrimp Scampi

Hello everybody, it’s Louise, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, shrimp scampi. It is one of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Free UK Delivery on Eligible Orders Melt butter in a large saucepan over medium heat. Mix shrimp with drained pasta in a serving bowl. This quick scampi is perfect over pasta or by itself with fresh-squeezed lemon. Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil.

Shrimp Scampi is one of the most favored of current trending meals in the world. It is appreciated by millions every day. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Shrimp Scampi is something that I have loved my whole life.

To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have shrimp scampi using 10 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Shrimp Scampi:
  1. Get 1 lb Shrimp
  2. Get 1 tbsp Pure Olive Oil
  3. Prepare 2 tbsp Finely Chopped Garlic
  4. Get 1 1/2 cup White Wine
  5. Prepare 1/2 Fresh Lemon (Juice Only)
  6. Take 1 tsp Italian Seasoning Blend
  7. Get 1/2 cup Butter
  8. Prepare 1 tbsp Fresh Parsely (Chopped Fine)
  9. Prepare 1 Salt and Pepper (To Taste)
  10. Get 1/2 cup Fresh Grated Parmesan Cheese

For dessert, try bowlfuls of Neapolitan ice cream to continue the theme. Now that you know how to make shrimp scampi, perhaps you'd. When the butter has melted, return the shrimp to the pan along with the parsley and cooked pasta. Stir well and season with salt and pepper.

Steps to make Shrimp Scampi:
  1. Heat heavy bottomed skillet and add oil. Do not allow oil to smoke.
  2. Add shrimp, cook until tender and no longer translucent.
  3. Remove shrimp from pan and reduce heat slightly.
  4. Add garlic and cook 2-3 minutes. Be careful not to brown garlic as this will produce a slightly bitter flavor.
  5. When garlic is cooked, add white wine.
  6. Squeeze juice from lemon in pan, and reduce wine by half.
  7. After it is reduced, add Italian seasoning blend.
  8. Reduce heat to low, and slowly add butter, 1 Tbsp at a time. The butter should slowly melt into the sauce and create a nice creamy texture. If the pan is too hot the butter will separate.
  9. Once butter is fully incorporated, add shrimp back into sauce, add parsley, and season to taste with salt and pepper.
  10. Serve with garnish of fresh cheese if desired. Scampi is great accompanied by fresh pasta.

When the butter has melted, return the shrimp to the pan along with the parsley and cooked pasta. Stir well and season with salt and pepper. 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. Thus the dish was born, along with inevitable variations.

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