Garlicky lemon shrimp is the easiest one-pan meal you’ll make; it’s ready in minutes and tastes like it’s straight from a restaurant. This dish is made with simple ingredients, but is bursting with flavor. The delicious pan sauce pairs well with mashed potatoes or over pasta.
What you’ll need to make garlicky lemon shrimp
The ingredient list is pretty short and sweet here; a few pantry and fridge staples, and some shrimp!
- shrimp
- olive oil spray
- lemon pepper seasoning
- garlic
- lemon juice
- reduced sodium chicken broth
- light butter
- fresh parsley
Heads up about the lemon pepper seasoning: based on the brand, this spice can really vary. Some contain salt, and others don’t. Since the butter also contains salt, I have not included salt as an ingredient. If your lemon pepper seasoning is salt free, your dish might require some extra salt. So just taste and see for yourself; you can totally wing it! If you end up adding salt, 1/4 teaspoon should be plenty.
How to prep the shrimp
For this recipe, I used the Trader Joe’s Argentinian Red Shrimp. They are red in color, even when they are raw. I am only pointing this out, so that you don’t think I made this recipe using pre-cooked shrimp!
So, here’s the deal with cooking with shrimp. You can buy them either fresh or frozen. If I can get to the fish counter at the store, I prefer to do that, but I always have a bag of frozen shrimp in the freezer for when I am in a pinch. For this recipe, we need 1 lb of shrimp.
If you are using the Argentinian Red Shrimp, they come perfectly shelled, cleaned and deveined. But usually, when I use any other kind of shrimp, I have to clean them myself.
When I get fresh shrimp home from the store, I remove the vein by running my paring knife down the center and pulling it out. It is also personal preference whether or not to leave the tails on shrimp when you cook them (it’s for aesthetic purposes only). If you are using frozen shrimp, you can quickly defrost them by submerging them in a bowl of cold water. Once they are defrosted, you can clean and devein them.
If you’ve never cleaned shrimp before, here is a quick article on how to do so: How to Devein Shrimp
Once your shrimp is cleaned, pat it dry. This is important so that all of the moisture is removed before cooking them. Pat them dry with a paper towel, and throw them into a mixing bowl. To season the shrimp for this recipe, just toss it with the lemon pepper seasoning.
How to cook the shrimp and make the garlicky lemon sauce
Preheat the frying pan over medium high heat, and then give it a good spray of olive oil.
Add the seasoned shrimp to the pan, and sear them on both sides (just about 5 minutes total). Meanwhile, mince your garlic.
If the pan becomes dry at this point, add some more olive oil spray, and then toss in your minced garlic. Cook the garlic for just one minute so that it doesn’t burn, but becomes fragrant.
Next, add the lemon juice and chicken broth. Bring the liquid to a boil and cook for 5 more minutes.
Remove the pan from the heat, and stir in the butter and parsley.
At this point, it’s a good time to taste for seasoning. If your lemon pepper seasoning does not contain salt, you might want to add it here. But since the butter contains salt too, you may not feel it’s necessary!
How to serve garlicky lemon shrimp
My favorite way to serve this recipe is over some mashed potatoes with a vegetable on the side, like asparagus, green beans, or broccoli. The pan sauce is perfect to soak into some creamy mashed potatoes, but you can also serve it with pasta or rice on the side.
Garlicky Lemon Shrimp
Equipment
- frying pan
Ingredients
- 1 lb shrimp, peeled, deveined, cleaned, raw
- olive oil spray
- 1 tsp lemon pepper seasoning
- 3 cloves garlic
- ¼ cup lemon juice
- ¼ cup reduced sodium chicken broth
- 2 tablespoons light butter
- 1/4 cup fresh parsley, chopped
Instructions
- Pat the shrimp dry.
- Add the shrimp to a bowl and add the lemon pepper seasoning, toss to coat.
- Preheat a frying pan over medium high heat.
- Spray the frying pan with olive oil spray.
- Sear the shrimp on both sides, for about 5 minutes.
- Mince the garlic.
- If the pan seems dry, add another spray of olive oil. (The shrimp will still be in the pan).
- Add the garlic to the pan. Cook for 1 minute.
- Add the lemon juice and chicken broth and bring to a boil.
- Cook for 5 minutes.
- Remove the pan from the heat and stir in the butter until melted.
- Stir in the fresh chopped parsley. Taste for seasoning.
Weight Watchers
Notes
- 4 WW points (green plans)
- 3 WW points (blue and purple plans)
Nutrition
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I made this for dinner tonight. My husband said it tasted like we were in a restaurant! So delicious!!
This easy shrimp recipe is restaurant quality. We will definitely be having this on repeat. The flavors are so perfect together.
Another recipe that doesn’t disappoint! Came together so quick as well!
Loved it, sooo easy.
The sauce is soooo delicious. I used I can’t believe it’s not butter to make it dairy-free and it came out so velvety!
I made this last night and it was so easy and very flavorful! I ended up putting the shrimp over egg noodles since I had that on hand but I am excited to try it next time with mashed potatoes!!! Great recipe
Amazing! Instantly at top of list to be on regular meal rotation!
Loved this! The flavor of the sauce was delicious and by doubling it, I was able to turn it into the perfect pasta sauce. The bright and fresh flavor really shined in this dish and it was very easy to make. I will be keeping this one on hand for a quick week night dinner often!
This easy to make meal is perfect when you don’t have much time to spend in the kitchen. It tastes like you spent hours making it. So good!
This was amazing and so easy!!! Definitely a new favorite!!!!!!!
Such a great and easy recipe. Really appreciate this website.
Another winner! I’m not a big seafood person, but this shrimp was so good! I’m making it for a 2nd time in a row. Love it!!
Soooooo good! Served exactly the same as described. I really appreciate the step by step instructions and pictures.
I was looking for something easy for dinner, and this was the winner. I had all the ingredients on hand and I was excited to give it a try. This recipe is AMAZING! I also added some sun-dried tomatoes to it which was a great addition. I will be making this again very soon!
I made this for dinner the other night,It was absolutely delicious my daughter and I enjoyed it tremendously. It will be a keep
Wow! Fantastic! My husband loved it too!!! So quick and easy too! Thank you!
Super quick and easy to make. Very few ingredients, but still so flavorful! Absolutely delicious!
Another winner! Super easy, restaurant quality. Not sure I’ll ever make my shrimp another way.
I made this tonight. It was amazing. The only little tweak that I made to it is I wanted the sauce to be a bit thicker to mix with pasta so I just added in a tiny bit of corn starch. Very yummy.
This was AMAZING! Simple ingredients that most people already have at home. Will definitely be making again!
So good and easy!!!! Thank you
This was a super fast meal to throw together. The sauce was yummy spooned over a potato mash paired with baccicia beans!!
So easy to make and delicious
Wow! This was completely delish! I cut it down to one serving and used half the butter since I didn’t have the lower fat option. Still the flavor was incredible. I’m thinking about trying this with cut up chicken bites too. Half the family do not like shrimp, but I think lemon garlic would be good with chicken bites too!
This was so good and the hubby loved it too. We had it with pasta and it will for sure go in our regular rotation!