I hope
everyone had a great weekend. Mine was filled with grocery shopping and watching
movies. With the snow and all I’m not really in the mood to do anything else. But
today it started to rain. I never thought I would be so happy to see rain. The snow
just melted away. Having 2 weeks of winter with snow and scrapping my car
windows is more than plenty for me. Please let the spring start soon.
On Saturday I
bought a bag of frozen, peeled and deveined shrimps. Talk about shortcuts. Normally
I buy them with shell, so this was a nice change. I always try to have a bag of
frozen shrimp in the freezer. Never know when I need them.
I don’t know
if I should call this post garlic shrimps or shrimp garlic given the amount of
garlic I marinated them with. I know my boss will not be too happy tomorrow at
work. Somehow he always knows when I had garlic. But that doesn’t stop me from
eating it. I just love garlic!
For these
super simple garlic shrimps I used:
-
About
25 pieces of peeled and deveined shrimps
-
4
cloves of garlic
-
1
teaspoon of salt
-
Fresh
ground pepper
-
Some
slivers of fresh chili
-
1
teaspoon of garlic powder
-
Dash
of olive oil
I started
with mincing the garlic and sliced some slivers of chili. I don’t like it too
hot so just a couple would do.
To this I added
the salt, the pepper, the garlic powder and the olive oil.
Then I butter
flied the shrimp, making sure I didn’t cut them all in half and mixed them with
the garlic mixture. I let it marinate for a day, but if you are in a hurry you
can use it after a couple of minutes also.
In a hot wok I
added a bit of olive oil and one teaspoon of butter. The moment the butter
melted in the oil I added the shrimp.
Shrimp cooks
so fast, so the whole process took no longer then 2-3 minutes. There is no
doing anything else while the shrimp is cooking so you’ll have to be there and
keep an eye on them. When one side was done I turned them around and after
everything turned pink it was time to serve it.
We ate it
with some toasted bread, but it was good just like that also; a great, fast and
simple snack before dinner.
PS: try these shrimps on top of a salad!
