Sunday, January 10, 2016

Ken's Easy Shrimp Scampi

Ingredients:
1 lb Cooked/Peeled Shrimp (any size, bigger is better)
2 Tbsp Olive Oil
3 Tbsp Butter
3 Tsp of Minced Garlic (heaping, or 4 minced whole cloves)
1/4 Tsp Crushed Red Pepper (more for more spicy, less for less spicy)
2 Tbsp Parsley (crushed up to small bits if dried, finely chopped if fresh)
1 Tbsp Lemon Juice
1/2 Tsp Salt
1 Tsp Pepper

Heat up large sauce pan on medium high heat, once warm add olive oil and butter.
Mix until butter is completely dissolved and begins to foam up a bit. If using unsalted butter, add salt here.
Stir in the garlic and red pepper flakes and saute for about a minute until it begins to brown at the edges.
Add the shrimp and mix around to completely cover the shrimp with the mixture and then spread out shrimp. Remember the shrimp is already cooked so we don't want to cook very long at this stage.
Add the parsley, lemon, and black pepper then mix everything up. Let this cook for maybe another minute then remove from heat.
Pour shrimp and sauce into a bowl so the shrimp doesn't continue to cook in the pan.

This is best served with or over some kind of pasta. We use Pasta Roni Angel Hair Pasta With Herbs which is perfect.