The Best Lemon Garlic Butter Shrimp with Asparagus

The Best Lemon Garlic Butter Shrimp with Asparagus

Hey guys it's Becky From The Cookie rookie. Calm and today I'm so excited to be making one of our favorite truly easy recipes spicy garlic butter shrimp this is a great recipe for an easy weeknight meal perfect appetizer to serve a crowd for game day or throw it over some grits and make a romantic meal for two I love this recipe cuz it's made an under 10 minutes with as you can see only a few ingredients let's get started going to start by just adding salt and pepper to a shrimp very simple we have enough seasoning that's going to go into the skillet the salt and pepper is perfect all

you need you start by adding two tablespoons butter to a hot Skillet medium-high Heat and that's going to be half of our butter for this rest go ahead and let that melt in your pants once the butter is melted we're adding all of our shrimp to the skillet I love that fizzle going to be done in no time right when you add your shrimp are going to go ahead and add garlic paste as well as red pepper paste you can add as much or as little red pepper paste as you'd like but it will get spicy the more you add and just toss that to combine to make sure all the shrimp are coated 6 about 45 minutes to cook shrimp completely so watch him closely when they start turning opaque

How to make it? Please watch the video below

you know they're about done okay so they're getting nice and cooked it smells amazing and we're just going to add more butter and lemon juice really use about 1 tbsp lemon juice switch on a big lemon might be half on a small women always use real lemon juice at such a bright nice flavor to the shrimp and then we're going to add the extra two tablespoons of butter to make her sauce that smells so good I hope you guys try this recipe let that Melton more almost done once the butter is melted and you have a nice sauce from the lemon juice and the extra butter

or just going to season with some herbs so we're going to use red pepper flakes as little or as much as he'd like and then some dried basil you can use whatever you like parsley cilantro sky's the limit and you have a beautiful shrimp dish so you can put over pasta over rice over grits anything you'd like me to buy them self they're delicious I hope you love the recipe hop over to the cookie rookie. Com for details

THE BEST OTHER RECIPE OF Lemon Garlic Butter Shrimp with Asparagus
Ingredients
Shrimp:
1.5 lbs medium raw shrimp peeled and deveined, tail-on or tail-off
2 tbsp butter
1 tbsp minced garlic
1 tsp italian seasoning
1/4 tsp onion powder
salt and pepper to taste
1/4 tsp smoked paprika or regular
Asparagus:
1 tbsp butter
1 tbsp olive oil
1 lb asparagus
salt to taste
Garnishment:
2 tbsp parsley
1/2 lemon juiced

Instructions
First, Place a large non-stick skillet with butter over medium heat. Once melted, add the shrimp. Season with salt and pepper (to taste). Allow to cook 1-2 minutes on one side.

Second, Add the minced garlic, italian seasoning, onion powder and smoked paprika. Stir to combine and flipping the shrimp to cook on the opposite side.

Third, Cook for 1-2 minutes or until the shrimp has turned pink. Transfer to a plate and cover with foil to keep warm.

Combine the butter and olive oil to the same pan. Once the butter has melted, add the asparagus. Season with salt (to taste). Allow to cook until the asparagus is fork-tender. Approximately 4-6 minutes. Time will be dependent on how thick the asparagus is.

Add the shrimp back to the pan. Squeeze half of a lemon over the top of the shrimp and asparagus. Allow to cook for 1-2 minutes.
Remove from heat, garnish with parsley and serve immediately.