Kelli's Kitchen

Shrimp Scampi

  I know many of you can relate, between homework, tutors, sports and any other after school activity you can think of, there just isn't enough hours in the day.  Though I try to make quick, easy and healthy meals, there are just some nights we eat cereal on the go.  When I do have time to cook but still need it to be quick and easy I usually turn to pasta dishes since I know all my children will eat pasta.  Shrimp Scampi is a classic, and easy to throw together with ingredients that are usually on hand.  It also is good on nights that we have soccer or baseball practice.  It's not heavy and gives the kids enough energy to get through practice before we all come home and collapse.  It's also a great left over dish for my husband to take to work the next day.

I enjoy it over whole wheat angel hair pasta, but any pasta will do or it can be eaten alone.  There are a lot of different ways to make this from extremely buttery to replacing butter with chicken stock and white wine.  This is a middle of the road recipe.  Easy and Tasty!


Ingredients:

1 pound pasta cooked according to package
3 tablespoon butter
2 tablespoon olive oil
4 cloves of garlic
1 pound shrimp peeled
salt and pepper to taste
1 tablespoon scallions sliced
1/2 lemon zest
1/4 cup lemon juice
1/8 teaspoon red pepper flakes


Melt butter and olive oil in a large pan over medium heat.  Add garlic, saute for a minute or until fragrant.  Don't burn the garlic!


Add shrimp cook until pink on both sides, stirring often.  Remove from heat, add scallions, lemon zest, lemon juice and red pepper flakes.  Toss with pasta.  If you have to reheat your pasta be careful not to over cook your shrimp.