Garlic butter shrimp Garlic Butter Shrimp is tasty, spicy, and delicious. It makes a great appetizer before dinner or to serve at a party, but but can also be the perfect main. Inspired by traditional shrimp scampi, we swap lemon for lime and parsley for cilantro.

Ingredients of Garlic butter shrimp

  1. You need 3 lbs of shrimp with heads.
  2. It's 1 cup of unsalted butter (or 1/2 cup margarine).
  3. It's 1 tbsp of minced garlic.
  4. It's Pinch of salt.
  5. Prepare Pinch of pepper.

Garlic butter shrimp instructions

  1. Melt butter on a sauce pan on fire set on medium heat..
  2. Put shrimp. I used shrimp with heads because it's more savory..
  3. Stir occassionally, make sure that the shrimp turns bright orange. (No gray spots like in the photo).
  4. Add minced garlic and stir. (Garlic is more aromatic for me if added later than the main ingredient IMO)..
  5. You will know that the garlic butter sauce penetrated the shell if the shrimp shrinks a little that it will have a space between the meat and the shell. (Yes, too specific I know. 🥴😝).
  6. Toast the garlic a little. (Optional) Serve and enjoy..

It has a secret ingredient that makes the What is not to like with this Garlic Butter Shrimp recipe! If you enjoy shrimp scampi, then this is the grilled shrimp recipe for you. Shrimp tossed in a rich garlic butter sauce is hard to compete with. This recipe is quick enough to pull off on a busy weeknight, but feels special enough for a Saturday night in, too. How you serve it is up.

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