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Baked Shrimp Scampi with a green garlic butter sauce, served with spaghetti and a lemon wedge.

Baked Shrimp Scampi

Bree Hester
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Prep Time 30 minutes
Cook Time 10 minutes
Total Time 40 minutes
Course Main Course
Cuisine American, Italian
Servings 4
Calories 361 kcal

Ingredients
  

The shrimp and marinade:

  • 2 pounds peeled and deveined shrimp
  • 3 Tablespoons olive oil
  • 2 Tablespoons white wine
  • salt and pepper

The garlic butter:

  • 1 1/2 sticks room temperature butter
  • 3 minced garlic cloves or more to taste
  • 1/4 cup minced shallots
  • 3 Tablespoons fresh minced parsley
  • 1 teaspoon fresh minced rosemary
  • 1/4 teaspoon red pepper flakes
  • 1 teaspoon lemon zest
  • 2 Tablespoons lemon juice
  • 1 large egg yolk I left this out
  • 2/3 cup panko crumbs

Instructions
 

  • Put all of the garlic butter ingredients except for the Panko crumbs in the food processor. (You can also do it in a bowl and just mash with a fork, you know me, I am lazy.)
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  • Process the butter until smooth. Transfer to a bowl.
    Processing the garlic butter mixture for Baked Shrimp Scampi in a food processor.
  • Mix in the panko crumbs.
    Mixing panko crumbs into the green garlic butter mixture for Baked Shrimp Scampi.
  • This is what it looks like all mixed together.
    Garlic butter and panko crumb mixture for Baked Shrimp Scampi in a dark ramekin.
  • You can take out a little bit of the butter before you add the panko to use for something else if you are not going to use the full 2 pounds of shrimp. More on that in a minute.
  • They were already peeled and cleaned so all I had to do was butterfly them so that they would sit all pretty like they do. Just cut a small slit in the bottom of the shrimp and fan out the pieces a little so that it will stand up with its tail curled over like this. I told you that it looks fancy!
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  • Mix together the olive oil, wine, and salt and pepper for the marinade.
    Mixing olive oil, salt, and pepper for shrimp scampi marinade.
  • Let them sit for a bit in the marinade. Since there is no citrus in this marinade I think that you can get away with a few hours before you use them. I let them sit in the fridge for about 2 hours before I assembled them and let them sit again for about another 2 hours.
    Raw shrimp peeled and deveined in a white bowl for seafood recipes.
  • Arrange the shrimp in either a 14-inch gratin dish or in single serving dished like so. Place the cut side down and let the tails curl over and arrange the shrimp in a circular shape.
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  • Carefully spread the butter mixture over the top of the shrimp. You may have to do a little tail rearranging. Pour the remaining marinade over the shrimp. At this point, I put them back in the fridge until I was ready to bake them off. About 2 hours or so.
    Butterflied shrimp topped with herbed garlic butter in white dishes for Baked Shrimp Scampi.
  • Bake the shrimp in a 425 degree oven for about 10 to 12 minutes or until they are hot and bubbly and the shrimp have turned pink. I wanted my butter mixture to get a little color so I put them under the broiler for a minute or so also.
    Baked Shrimp Scampi in individual white dishes, topped with a green herb and panko crumb mixture.
  • I cooked some pasta and tossed it in some of the leftover garlic butter, a glug (that is a technical term obviously) of white wine, and a few squeezes of lemon juice. Gave it a good sprinkling of salt and pepper and served it on the side with some lemon wedges. I also steamed some asparagus (which is divine dipped in the garlic butter after the shrimp are gone) and had some crusty bread to sop up the rest of the butter.

Nutrition

Calories: 361kcalCarbohydrates: 11gProtein: 48gFat: 14gSaturated Fat: 2gSodium: 354mgFiber: 1g
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