Shrimp scampi is a delicious pasta dish with a lemon, butter, garlic, and white wine sauce! Join Eric from Simply Elegant Home Cooking as he demonstrates this easy but delicious recipe! One of the keys is to avoid over cooking your shrimp! That will cause them to become rubbery. The shrimp scampi is taken to the next level by the addition of an Italian white wine, as well as red pepper flakes for a little bit of heat!
Ingredients:
-1 lb large shrimp
-1 lb pasta (linguine or spaghetti work best)
-4 tb extra virgin olive oil
-4 tb butter
-1 lemon
-1/3 c Italian white wine
-3 cloves garlic
-1/4 ts red pepper flakes
-1 large handful chopped Italian parsley
-Salt & pepper
Directions:
-Remove the shrimp from the fridge 30 minutes before you plan to cook. During this time, remove the shell but leave on the tail, and remove the vein from the shrimp.
-Preheat a large pot of water on high heat until a rapid boil is reached. Generously salt the water, and add the pasta. Cook according to the directions for al dente.
-The shrimp and sauce can be cooked at the same time as the pasta. Once the pasta is cooking, preheat a large pan over medium heat. Once the pan comes up to temperature, season your shrimp generously with salt and pepper, add 2 tablespoons of olive oil to the pan, and cook the shrimp for about 2 1/2 minutes, stirring often. It is very important not to overcook the shrimp as they will continue to cook once added back to the sauce.
-Once cooked mostly through, remove the shrimp and set aside on a plate. Turn off the heat and add an additional 2 tablespoons of olive oil to the same pan. This will bring down the temperature which is important to avoid burning the garlic. Add in the sliced garlic and red pepper flakes and turn the burner back on but only to medium low heat. Cook for about 1 1/2 minutes, stirring constantly.
-After garlic is cooked but not browned, deglaze the pan by adding in the Italian white wine. Turn the heat up to medium and bring to a light boil.
-Once a boil is achieved, zest the lemon into them sauce, then juice half the lemon into the sauce.
-Once the linguine is cooked, turn off the heat on the pasta water and transfer pasta into the sauce. Do not rinse or drain! Be sure to stir everything around as you go.
-Add back in the shrimp, and add in the butter and most of the chopped Italian parsley. Turn heat down to low and stir until butter is emulsified into the sauce.
-Serve the shrimp scampi and garnish with the remaining parsley
-Enjoy!
23 Comments
why leave the tails on the shrimp? i never understood this.
Could have done without hearing you eat.
Dude slurping down that shrimp sounds like a dirty movie
That was perfect until the horrible smacking sounds of eating it.
There's something about this tendency in people to eat on mic on YouTube.
Beautiful dish, violence inducing smacking.
Lmao this guy put in a whole salt mine into the boiling water
I make mine with arugula, cherry tomatoes and parmesan and it’s equally as good as this recipe of yours. Thanks for sharing! 😊
For my gusto to much oil and butter
This was truly delicious. Thank you. Wish that I could show a picture. I topped our steaks with noodles (twisted around my hand for presentation) with the shrimp and sauce on top. It was great! The only thing I will cut back on next time is the red pepper flakes as mine was just a little too overbearing to enjoy the other flavors this dish deserves. But hey, my fault as I never measure anything when I cook – LOL. Thank you again for sharing and helping in this meal.
Thank you for the detailed instructions! Great shrimp!
Super Delicious!
is is possible to do without the wine or a substitute? other than that great video! it looks so delicious i would love to try it!!!!
I don't add salt because the butter is salted
Eww!!! Hearing him smack on his food like that was damn near tramatic!!! I wasn't sure if this was a spoof it not almost made me lost any type of appetite I had!!!!
Love all your recipies!!!!..mil gracias👍🤗🤗🤗
Love your channel, thank you!!!👍🙏🏼👏
It looks delicious
I just made this recipe and it came out great!!! It's so simple. I don't even have to write the recipe down, I can remember it by heart!!!I looked at Gordon Ramsey's video to compare and decided your was easier and I had all the ingredients already, except the wine and parsley. I just added a little apple vinegar, fish sauce, and scallions instead. Eating and writing now. It's delicious! Even my mom likes it and she usually refuses to eat anything I cook the first time. Thank you!!! 👍💕💕
I made it for my wife and she loved it so easy thank you
We’re is the recipe?? How much butter, how much parsley???
The way you smack your lips everytime you talk and eat is absolutely disgusting. But good pasta
Did you add pasta water?
Thank you for the recipe. Why keep the shells on the tails? I would take those off, so I wouldn’t have to touch them when I eat the pasta
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