Name a better combination than garlic and butter. Would it be garlic butter shrimp? The smell of just these two items cooking together will get everyone’s head turning to the kitchen, asking what you’re making, even though it’s only two simple ingredients! These garlic butter shrimp are versatile as an appetizer or as part of your main dish with some rice, noodles, pasta or even on top of a salad. This recipe is so easy to make with simple ingredients and can only less than 20 minutes if using pre-peeled and deveined shrimp that have already thawed.
Ingredients
Shrimp – The “sizing” of the shrimp is based on how many of them are needed to make up a pound. I used 16-20 shrimp, which means that about 16-20 shrimps together make up 1 pound of shrimp. The smaller the numbers, the bigger the shrimp! The larger the shrimp, the longer the cook time, but it’s pretty marginal. pick whatever size you’d like. To make this recipe quick and easy, opt to buy peeled and deveined shrimp so that you don’t have to do that yourself.
Butter – I use unsalted so that you can better control the amount of salt that is going in the recipe.
Olive oil – Why do we need olive oil if we’re already using butter? At higher temperatures, butter can burn really quickly. The olive oil will help soften the garlic faster without having to worry about anything burning.
Garlic – Better to fend away those vampires.
Garlic Butter Shrimp
Ingredients
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 1 pound shrimp peeled, deveined
- 1 head garlic thinly sliced
- 4 tbsp butter
- salt
- pepper
- red pepper flakes garnish
- dill garnish
Instructions
- In a pan that can fit all your shrimp in one layer, heat at medium heat until pan is hot.
- Add olive oil and sliced garlic. Cook until garlic softens.
- Add shrimp in one layer (if you can) and butter.
- Cook on each side 2-4 minutes until shrimp is completely opaque throughout.
- Season with a pinch of salt and pepper. Garnish with red pepper flakes and dill as desired!
Eat these with 10-Minute Soy Ginger Noodles or with The Work From Home Salad