Recipe

Roasted Lemon Garlic Herb Shrimp

We love shrimp.  So, here’s another shrimp recipe.  Hope you love it as much as I do.  Serves 2

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Roasted Lemon Garlic Herb Shrimp

Ingredients

  • 1/3 cup olive oil
  • 1 lemon, zested then half cut into thin slices and other half into wedges
  • 3 -4 fresh thyme sprigs, leaves removed
  • kosher salt and fresh black pepper
  • spaghetti or pasta, couscous or rice, for serving
  • 1 lb fresh shrimp, medium-sized, deveined with tails off
  • 5 garlic cloves, minced

directions

  1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.

  2. In a 9×13 baking pan combine olive oil, lemon zest and thyme. Season with salt and pepper.

  3. Bake in oven for 12 minutes. Meanwhile cook pasta, couscous or rice.

  4. Remove pan from oven, add shrimp, garlic and the thin sliced lemons (don’t squeeze them), toss to coat with oil mixture.

  5. Bake for 8-10 more minutes or until shrimp turn pink and start to curl.

  6. Serve over pasta, couscous or rice tossed with extra-virgin olive oil and fresh-squeezed lemon with additional lemon wedges for serving.

 

 

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