Scrumptious & Simple Shrimp

Last night I made a really tasty baked shrimp and just have to share it with all of you! My inspiration for this started with seeing recipes on Pinterest for buttered lemon shrimp. I ended up just making up something of my own and it was delicious. 

Here is the recipe:

10 large shrimp

3/4 stick of butter

1 whole lemon, thinly sliced

4 garlic cloves, finely chopped

1/2 small shallot, finely chopped

T italian seasoning

drizzle of extra virgin olive oil

salt and pepper to taste

I started with 10 large, frozen, deveined and peeled shrimp thawed in ice water. Heat oven to 350 degrees. In a medium bowl add shrimp, garlic, shallot, italian seasoning and salt and pepper. Drizzle appropriate amount of olive oil over shrimp so that when you toss the ingredients in the bowl, the shrimp are fully coated with all of the goodies :) Melt butter in large ceramic baking dish. Place thinly sliced lemon on melted butter. Top the lemon and butter with the shrimp. If we had an extra lemon, I would have sliced a second lemon and placed over the shrimp as the final layer and/or squeezed some lemon juice on them as well. Did it need it . . . no . . . but I LOVE lemon :) Then bake the shrimp for 11 - 12 minutes at 350 degrees and they are perfect! When plating, don't miss out on a spoonful ( or two!) of the lemon butter sauce :) YUMMY!

Prior to baking

 Finished product

Paired with baked potato, balsamic roasted cauliflower and some of the best cut filet = success!