Name: Lemon Garlic Butter Shrimp
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 10 min
Total time: 20 min
Ingredients: 1/3 cup butter (divided); 4 cloves garlic (minced, or 1 tablespoon); 1 3/4 pounds shrimp (or prawns, peeled and deveined, tails intact); 1 pinch Kosher salt (to taste); 1 pinch freshly ground black pepper (to taste); 1-2 tablespoons lemon juice (juice of half a lemon - add more if desired); 2 tablespoons water; 1 pinch fresh parsley (chopped to garnish)

Lemon Garlic Butter Shrimp

By Karina

4.60 from 35 votes

on Dec 27, 2016, Updated Jul 01, 2024

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Lemon Garlic Butter Shrimp is the most easiest and flavour packed shrimp!

With the best flavour combination and ready in under 15 minutes, Lemon Garlic Butter Shrimp is an easy to throw together meal that can be served over anything!

Lemon Garlic Butter Shrimp in a pan

A huge bowl of this Lemon Garlic Butter Shrimp can be found at our dinner table at least once a week. Stir a handful of angel hair pasta through the lemony, garlicky, buttery sauce for a delicious dinner.

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Buy shrimp (or prawns) already deveined, shelled and cleaned, and you have yourself such an easy recipe. Use fresh lemon juice (not the store bought stuff, please for the love of freshness), and use fresh garlic if possible. Those two elements — although rather obvious — are the key to this recipe creating fireworks in your mouth.

Crunchy Lemon Garlic Butter Shrimp in a pan

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4.60 from 35 votes

Lemon Garlic Butter Shrimp

By Karina

Prep Time: 10

Cook Time: 10

Total Time: 20

Servings: people

Lemon Garlic Butter Shrimp is packed full of flavour and ready on your table in under 10 minutes!

Ingredients

▢ 1/3 cup butter divided
▢ 4 cloves garlic minced, or 1 tablespoon
▢ 1 3/4 pounds shrimp or prawns, peeled and deveined, tails intact
▢ 1 pinch Kosher salt to taste
▢ 1 pinch freshly ground black pepper to taste
▢ 1-2 tablespoons lemon juice juice of half a lemon - add more if desired
▢ 2 tablespoons water
▢ 1 pinch fresh parsley chopped to garnish

Instructions

Melt 2 tablespoon butter in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add the garlic and cook until fragrant (about 1 minute).
Fry shrimp and add salt and pepper, to your taste. Cook 2 minutes on one side, while stirring occasionally. Flip and cook 2 minutes on the other side until JUST beginning to turn pink.
Add in the remaining butter, lemon juice and water. Cook, while stirring, until the butter melts and the shrimp have cooked through (do not over cook them). Take off heat. Taste test, and add more lemon juice, salt or pepper, if needed to suit your tastes.
Garnish with fresh chopped parsley and serve over rice or pasta.