Garlic Butter Shrimp

Garlic Butter Shrimp

Succulent shrimp cooked in garlicky butter with bright lemon and fresh parsley makes an elegant, quick weeknight dinner.

⏱ 15 min total🔪 5 min prep🔥 10 min cookEasyServes 4American

Ingredients

  • •1.5 lb shrimp
  • •4 tbsp butter
  • •5 cloves garlic
  • •1 lemon
  • •2 tbsp parsley

Directions

  1. 1Melt butter and cook garlic.
  2. 2Add shrimp, cook 3 minutes per side.
  3. 3Squeeze in lemon.
  4. 4Finish with parsley.

💡 Garlic-butter shrimp needs the sauce ready before seafood enters; shrimp should spend only minutes in the pan before turning rubbery.

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