Recipe: Appetizing 5-Ingredient Garlic Butter Shrimp

5-Ingredient Garlic Butter Shrimp. Plus, it's gluten-free, dairy-free, and pescatarian! Melt butter in the pan on medium heat and add olive oil or cooking oil to avoid butter from burning easily. Cook garlic in melted butter until light golden brown.

When copious amounts of garlic meet butter, sweet lobster-like shrimp, and silky egg noodles, life is GOOD. Cook garlic in melted butter until light golden brown. When I fall off the wagon I do it in the biggest way possible. You can cook 5-Ingredient Garlic Butter Shrimp using 7 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of 5-Ingredient Garlic Butter Shrimp

1. Prepare 1 lb of medium shrimps cleaned and deveined (peeled with tails on).
2. It's 1/2 stick of butter or 5 tablespoons.
3. Prepare 1 tablespoon of olive oil or cooking oil.
4. You need 1 head of garlic chopped.
5. It's 1 cup of Sprite or Lemon Soda.
6. Prepare of Optional: 1/2 tablespoon chili and chopped parsley.
7. Prepare to taste of Salt and Pepper.

A week ago I shared a recipe for egg salad using avocado because I was being "more conscious about what I was eating." And now? Today I am sharing a garlic butter shrimp pasta recipe that has almost a whole stick of butter. Make a side of brown rice (or this Lemon Rice!) and spoon the shrimp, along with plenty of the yummy lemon garlic butter sauce, over the top. Cauliflower rice is a nice low-carb option.

5-Ingredient Garlic Butter Shrimp instructions

1. Marinate cleaned and deveined shrimp in 1/2 cup of Sprite or lemon soda for about 10-15 mins..
2. Melt butter in the pan on medium heat and add olive oil or cooking oil to avoid butter from burning easily. Cook garlic in melted butter until light golden brown..
3. Add shrimp and cook for about 3 mins on each side or until they turn orange..
4. Pour in the remaining 1/2 Sprite, add optional chili and simmer for about 3 minutes or until sauce thickens or almost evaporates. Make sure not to overcook the shrimps to avoid making them chewy or rubbery..
5. Add salt and pepper to taste and sprinkles chopped parsley for presentation. Serve with white rice and enjoy..

You can roast, steam, sauté, or grill veggies, then serve them along with the shrimp. This one is not in our cookbook. You can think of it as a little bonus recipe. You can't beat the delicious combination of garlic, butter, lemon, and shrimp. It makes my mouth water just thinking about it.