Step-by-Step Guide to Prepare Homemade Shrimp Scampi
Shrimp Scampi. Melt butter in a large saucepan over medium heat. Mix shrimp with drained pasta in a serving bowl. You can serve easy shrimp scampi on top of hot fettuccine or angel hair pasta, then sprinkle the finished dish with chopped fresh parsley and Parmesan cheese.
Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil. Add the linguine and cook as the label directs. Meanwhile, season the shrimp with salt.
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Melt butter in a large saucepan over medium heat. Mix shrimp with drained pasta in a serving bowl. You can serve easy shrimp scampi on top of hot fettuccine or angel hair pasta, then sprinkle the finished dish with chopped fresh parsley and Parmesan cheese.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have shrimp scampi using 12 ingredients and 2 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Shrimp Scampi:
- Take 1 bag of (20-25) shrimp (if frozen, thawed, peeled, & tails removed).
- Get 1/4 cup of olive oil.
- Get 1 cup of sliced mushrooms.
- Make ready 1 cup of diced fresh tomatoes.
- Take 2 Tbsp of garlic.
- Make ready 4 Tbsp of green onion.
- Take 4 oz of white wine.
- Take 4 Tbsp of chopped parsely.
- Get 8 Tbsp of butter.
- Make ready of Cooked linguine or penne pasta.
- Get 4 Tbsp of diced green onion.
- Get 8 Tbsp of Parmesan cheese.
Scampi are tiny, lobster-like crustaceans with pale pink shells (also called langoustines). Italian cooks in the United States swapped shrimp for scampi, but kept both names. Thus the dish was born, along with inevitable variations. Transfer the shrimp to a bowl.
Steps to make Shrimp Scampi:
- In a medium sauté pan, add oil and heat over medium high heat for 2 minutes. Add shrimp and sauté until they turn slightly pink. Add mushrooms, garlic, and sauté another 2 minutes. Then add tomato, green onion, white wine, and parsley. Be careful adding the wine since it may flame up. Toss all these well in the sauté pan and add the butter..
- Once all butter has melted, add pasta and toss well. Transfer to serving platter and top with remaining ingredient of Parmesan cheese and green onions..
Shrimp scampi is a classic, but decadent dish typically made with lots of butter and served over high-carb pasta or white rice. This version lightens things up a bit and is quick and easy enough for a weeknight meal. Add the shrimp, lemon juice, pepper and oregano; cook and stir until shrimp turn pink. Sprinkle with cheese, bread crumbs and parsley. Shrimp scampi has significance for the early immigrants, because in Italy scampi, the spiny langouste varietal, was prepared in this fashion.
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