For tonight’s dinner I had really good intentions to try to recreate the Shrimp Scampi dish I had on my mom’s birthday. I was planning on using my favorite Shrimp Scampi recipe as a base and going from there. The only problem was when I checked out my kitchen staples, we didn’t have any lemons, no fresh parsley and my Extra Virgin Olive Oil was gone too ~ ahh! No worries though, it just forced me to get a little creative.
I decided to break out my Consorzio Meyer Lemon Olive Oil as a substitute for lemon and Extra Virgin Olive Oil.
Shrimp Scampi with Meyer Lemon Oil
1 T butter, 2 T Meyer Lemon Olive Oil (you can use all olive oil if you like)
1 shallot, chopped
3 garlic cloves, minced
3 Green Onions, sliced
1/2 tsp sea salt
1/4 tsp coarsely ground black pepper
1 lb large shrimp, peeled, and deveined (I buy mine from Costco already cleaned and shelled), then, “butterfly” them by slicing them almost in half
2 T chopped fresh flat leaf parsley or basil
a few pinches of crushed red pepper
Melt butter with olive oil in a large nonstick skillet over medium heart, then add the shallot and garlic. Cook stirring frequently until golden 3-4 minutes. Stir in shrimp, sea salt and pepper. Cook until shrimp are opague and cooked through, about 5 minutes. Remove from heat and add basil, green onions and crushed red pepper.
I love to serve shrimp scampi over pasta and let the garlic oil season the pasta. It’s so simple to make and very low in calories and fat.
I took 1 cup of linguine and topped it with a serving of shrimp ~ delish!
I cooked up some Alexa Garlic Bread on the side and completely forgot to make any vegetable with dinner ~ oops!
I was glad to get back to cooking in the kitchen and The Husband even helped. It really made my “Monday” so much better!
While dinner cooked, I also popped a new 3 ingredient dessert recipe into the oven for dessert. It is cooling now so hopefully if it turns out I will have that to share with you all tonight or tomorrow!
Off to read, relax and hopefully get some sleep! Nite all!
Yum! Shrimp Scampi even looks better than what you ordered in a restaraunt. 😉
Can I ask you how you got gravatar to work in Blogger? I’ve downloaded it but it says that its not compatable with Blogger yet. I know there are ways around it, but I can’t seem to figure it out.
Hope you are having a great week hun!
Lauren ~ I never got gravatar to work in blogger only in wordpress which is what I have now – sorry it doesn’t help 🙁
That looks really good! I have never seen lemon olive oil before!!
ooh, i bet that lemon oil is awesome! great dinner. I sometimes forget to make veggies with pasta dishes, too!
Ooooh garlic bread! Who cares about the veggies when you have that 😉 Yum!
i love that brand of oil! your shrimp look so scrumptious and plump, mmmmm!
the Alexia garlic bread is unbearably good — thank god for having a huge family or i could honestly eat the entire loaf