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Italy

Known as an Italian recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

Ingredients 11 ingredients

  1. 4 ts Grated lemon peel left on
  2. 6 Cloves Garlic, cut into
  3. 1 ts Dried oregano
  4. 2 tb Chopped fresh parsley
  5. Pepper to taste fourths (small cloves)
  6. 1/4 ts Salt
  7. 2 tb Lemon juice
  8. 6 tb Butter
  9. 2 lb Uncooked jumbo shrimp, vermouth shelled and deveined, tails
  10. 1 ts Dried rosemary
  11. 1/4 c Dry white wine OR dry
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Cook safely

Keep children and pets away from the hob and the oven, and keep oven gloves and a lid within reach.

  • Sharp knives. Cut on a board that doesn't slip (a damp cloth under it helps), and curl the fingers of the hand that holds the food.

Method

  1. Melt butter in a large skillet. While butter is melting, prepare shrimp by sprinkling with rosemary and oregano.
  2. Saute' garlic chunks in butter until golden. Remove with slotted spoon and discard. Add shrimp and cook, stirring, until shrimp turns pink, about 3 minutes (depending on size).
  3. Sprinkle wine, lemon peel and juice over shrimp. Stir and turn shrimp over medium-high heat 5 minutes longer. Season with salt and pepper before serving. Serves 6.
  4. 0-89535-147-1 SHARED BY: Jim Bodle 3/93

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Frying pan
  • Saucepan
  • Chef's knife
  • Cutting board
  • Grater
  • Vegetable peeler
  • Wooden spoon
  • Slotted spoon
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Credit

SOURCE: *Quick Italian Cuisine International, Knapp Press C 1984 ISBN. Saved from accuchef.com (http://accuchef.com/Mm13000i.mmf), file Recipes/accuchef.com/Mm13000i.mmf in the Internet Archive item cooking-recipes (https://archive.org/details/cooking-recipes).

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