Categorized:
- Main Dish
- Seafood
Tagged:
- butter
- garlic
- lemon
- olive oil
- parsley
- shrimp
- sugar
Garlic Lemon Butter Shrimp
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 lbs extra-large (21/25) shrimp, peeled and deveined
- 3 Tbsp butter, melted
- 1 1/2 Tbsp fresh lemon juice
- 2 Tbsp minced fresh parsley
- Salt and freshly ground black pepper
- 1/8 tsp sugar
- 4 tsp olive oil, divided
- 2 cloves garlic, minced
Instructions
- In a bowl mix together butter, lemon juice and parsley, set aside.
- Pat shrimp dry with paper towels then sprinkle with 1/4 tsp salt, 1/4 tsp pepper and the sugar.
- Heat 2 tsp oil in a 12-inch non-stick skillet over medium-high heat.
- Add half the garlic and half the shrimp to skillet and cook turning once until shrimp is cooked through and opaque, about 3 minutes total.
- Transfer to a piece of foil and wrap to keep warm. Repeat cooking process with remaining shrimp then remove skillet from heat.
- Return shrimp in foil to pan with other the shrimp. Pour butter mixture over shrimp and toss to coat. Serve warm.
Notes
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