Recipe: Appetizing 5-Ingredient Garlic Butter Shrimp

5-Ingredient Garlic Butter Shrimp. Garlic butter shrimp with sauce is topped over warm white rice. It can be eaten without any additional condiments because it is tasty by itself. Use Lemon, lime, or calamansi and add a bit of sugar as a replacement for lemon soda.

It cooks quickly and is extremely versatile, yet feels like a treat every time I set it down on the dinner table. This classic recipe calls for ingredients you probably already have on hand, like butter, garlic, and lemon, which together create a saucy, Italian-leaning. Try this super easy, delicious Garlic Butter Shrimp Recipe. You can have 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. You need 1 lb of medium shrimps cleaned and deveined (peeled with tails on).
2. It's 1/2 stick of butter or 5 tablespoons.
3. It's 1 tablespoon of olive oil or cooking oil.
4. You need 1 head of garlic chopped.
5. You need 1 cup of Sprite or Lemon Soda.
6. It's of Optional: 1/2 tablespoon chili and chopped parsley.
7. Prepare to taste of Salt and Pepper.

It has a secret ingredient that makes the shrimps sweeter and tastier. It brings out and intensifies the natural sweetness of the shrimps. I only added a quarter of a cup but to those who like a sweeter sauce, you can add some more. Garlic Butter Shrimp Recipe photo by Taste of Home.

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..

Those two just go perfectly together! You guys know I don't eat dairy, so I decided to use a vegan butter spread to get that nice buttery flavor into the quinoa, but you could certainly also use regular butter or ghee. If you like shrimp and LOVE garlic, I hope you give this fast and delicious recipe a try soon. The garlic butter sauce acts as a marinade and a dipping sauce. If you enjoy shrimp scampi, then this is the grilled shrimp recipe for you.