Quick Healthy Recipes – Lemon Pepper Shrimp Scampi
Typically only a handful of shrimp drowned with butter, shrimp scampi provides a kick in the pants from our recipe, both nutritionally as well as flavorfully. We tend to cook our shrimp inside a practical quantity of butter in order to obtain the taste and silky mouthfeel of traditional scampi, after that we make a garlicky sauce along with lemon as well as pepper for even extra flavor. A good serving of shrimp on top of cooked orzo creates an entire meal, however the calories for each serving are manageable at 403.
Sautéed asparagus an extraordinary fine complement.
Yield: 4 servings (serving size: 1/2 cup orzo mixture and about 7 shrimp)
Ingredients
1 cup uncooked orzo
2 tablespoons chopped fresh parsley
1/2 teaspoon salt, divided
7 teaspoons unsalted butter, divided
1 1/2 pounds peeled and deveined jumbo shrimp
2 teaspoons bottled minced garlic
2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
1/4 teaspoon black pepper
Preparation
1. Cook orzo in accordance with package instructions, not including salt and fat. Drain. Put orzo inside of a medium bowl. Stir in parsley as well as 1/4 teaspoon salt; cover and keep warm.
2. While orzo cooks, melt 1 tablespoon butter inside a large nonstick fry pan on medium-high heat. Sprinkle shrimp using leftover 1/4 teaspoon salt. Add 1 / 2 of shrimp to pan; sauté 2 minutes or until almost done. Move shrimp to a plate. Melt 1 teaspoon butter in pan. Add leftover shrimp to pan; sauté 2 minutes or until almost done. Move to plate.
3. Melt remaining 1 tablespoon butter in pan. Add garlic to pan; cook 30 seconds, stirring regularly. Mix in shrimp, juice, and pepper; cook 1 minute or until shrimp are done.
Nutritional Information
Calories:403
Fat:10.4g (sat 4.8g,mono 2.2g,poly 1.4g)
Protein:40.1g
Carbohydrate:34.7g
Fiber:1.7g
Cholesterol:276mg
Iron:4.3mg
Sodium:549mg
Calcium:97mg
David Bonom, Cooking Light, MARCH 2009
