Lots of butter, fragrant garlic, and bright, citrusy lemon juice make for the simply delicious Garlic Butter Shrimp. Cooks in just 5 minutes! Super easy recipe, delicious results.
Why You’ll Love This Recipe
- Easy Weeknight Dinner: Simply melt butter in a pan, add shrimp and seasonings, then stir and cook, adding garlic in the end. It’s that easy!
- Time-Saving Recipe: This garlic butter shrimp recipe cooks in just 5 minutes, and requires very little prep!
- Great flavor: This recipe focuses on simple, delicious ingredients like lemon, butter, and pepper for outstanding flavor. Serve with chicken fettuccine Alfredo, blackened salmon, and garlic toast.
5 Min Garlic Butter Shrimp
The other day, Erik and I were sooooo fed up with cooking. Like, why can’t this be easier?!? The prep work, the cooking, the dishes! So we decided to create this recipe for garlic butter shrimp. It’s ridiculously easy to make, with very little prep and just 5 minutes of cook time. This easy dinner is packed with garlicky, buttery flavor, big shrimp goodness, and the simplest, tastiest ingredients. Fresh, homemade seafood dinner? We’ve got this!
Butter Garlic Shrimp Ingredients
- Shrimp – we’ll use raw, large shrimp that’s already been peeled and deveined (it’s so much easier to buy the shrimp ready to go).
- Unsalted butter
- Garlic salt – this is my go-to homemade recipe.
- Garlic – mince 4 cloves of garlic or use the equivalent of ready-made minced garlic (4 teaspoons).
- Salt & pepper
- Lemon – juice 1 lemon, which amounts to 2-3 tablespoons.
- Fresh parsley – a pretty garnish for your butter garlic shrimp!
How to Make Garlic Butter Shrimp
Today, we’re learning how to cook this dish with minimal ingredients, minimal fuss, and lots of flavor. The result is a savory and mouthwatering seafood dish that you can pair with veggies, rice, pasta, and so much more.
- Melt the butter: Bring a large skillet with butter to medium high heat. Melt the butter and add shrimp, garlic salt, salt, and pepper.
- Cook the garlic butter shrimp: Cook on one side for about 3 minutes, stirring occasionally. Flip, then cook until shrimp turns pink, about 2-3 more minutes. Stir in garlic, then lemon juice.
- Serve: Serve topped with the sauce from the pan and sprinkled with parsley.
What to Serve with Garlic Butter Shrimp
Wondering what to serve with this seafood recipe? Here are some delicious ideas to get you started, from grains and veggies to sides and more.
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Bring a large pan with butter to medium high heat. Once butter melts, add shrimp, garlic salt, salt, pepper.
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Stirring occasionally, cook on one side for 2-3 minutes.
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Flip, then cook until shrimp is pink and no longer translucent, about 2-3 minutes.
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Stir in garlic. Cook for 1 minute, until fragrant. Add lemon juice and stir to combine.
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Remove from heat. Serve with the sauce from the pan, topped with fresh parsley. Great with garlic butter pasta, garlic toast and roasted garlic bread.
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