Lemon Pepper Shrimp

Recipe courtesy of Louisiana Kitchen & Culture

Serves 4

Ingredients: 
  • ½ cup flour
  • 1½ teaspoons grated lemon zest
  • 1½ teaspoons ground black pepper or to taste
  • 1 pound peeled and deveined Louisiana shrimp
  • 1 teaspoon salt or to taste
  • 2 tablespoons olive oil
  • 2 tablespoons butter
  • 1 tablespoon minced garlic
  • 1 lemon, thinly sliced crosswise and cut into quarters
  • ½ cup chicken stock
  • ¼ cup half & half or cream
  • pasta-cooking water as needed
  • hot pepper flakes, minced parsley, for garnish
  • 1pound fettuccine, cooked according to package directions and drained, ½ cup cooking water reserved

Lemon Pepper Shrimp

Lemon Pepper Shrimp

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Method: 

Combine flour, lemon zest, and black pepper in a mixing bowl and add shrimp; toss to coat. Heat olive oil and butter and in a skillet over medium-high heat. Add shrimp and cook, turning once, until shrimp are just cooked through; remove to a platter. Add garlic and lemon to skillet and cook, stirring constantly, until garlic is very fragrant, about 1 minute. Whisk in chicken broth and cream and cook, stirring and scraping up any browned bits, until thickened and slightly reduced, about 5 minutes. Add the cooked pasta to the pan and toss to coat; add pasta cooking water if needed to make the dish “saucy.” Return shrimp to pan and heat through. Serve at once.

Note: The cooked lemon slices will be bitter; some people love them, some will want to push them to the side.


 

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