Categorized:

  • Main Dish
  • Seafood

Tagged:

  • butter
  • garlic
  • lemon
  • parsley
  • shrimp
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Baked Shrimp (with Garlic Lemon Butter Sauce)

Ingredients

  • 1 1/4 lbs extra large shrimp, peeled and deveined
  • 1/4 cup butter
  • 1 Tbsp minced garlic (3 cloves)
  • 2 Tbsp fresh lemon juice
  • Salt and pepper
  • 1/8 tsp Red pepper flakes, or to taste (optional)
  • 2 Tbsp minced fresh parsley

Instructions

  • Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Place shrimp in baking dish.
  • Melt butter in a small saucepan over low heat. Add garlic and saute 30 seconds. Alternately melt butter with garlic in a small microwave safe dish in microwave. Stir lemon into butter mixture.
  • Pour butter mixture over shrimp in baking dish, season with salt and pepper and red pepper flakes, toss shrimp then spread into an even layer.
  • Bake in preheated oven until shrimp are cooked through (pink and opaque) about 9 - 13 minutes. Sprinkle with parsley and serve warm, spooning sauce over shrimp.

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