Roasted Lemon Garlic Shrimp

My absolute favorite meal is roasted lemon garlic shrimp. It is ammaaazing!

Now, I'm not one for measuring, so when it comes to ingredients I just wing-it. 

It has worked well so far..

Prep Time: 15 minutes

Cook Time: 20 minutes

Total Time: 35 minutes

Ingredients:

About 1/3 cup olive oil

1 lemon, zested then cut into wedges

1 tbls lemon juice

Parsey Flakes, mostly for color

Salt and Peper

Fettuccine

1 1/2-2 tbls butter

Minced garlic, I use the kind in the jar

1 pound fresh shrimp, medium-sized, deveined with tails off  ($5 bag at Wal-Mart)

Instructions: 

          1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.  In an 8x8 glass baking pan combine olive oil, lemon zest, lemon juice and parsley leaves. Olive oil should literally cover the bottom of the pan, if it doesn't drizzle in a little more. Season with S and P. Bake in oven for about 10 minutes, checking every few minutes, if it looks like it is getting too brown remove and proceed to next step.  Meanwhile cook pasta, drain, and set aside.

          2. Remove pan from oven, add butter and move it around a little to melt, add shrimp, garlic of your preferred amount, and the lemons wedges, toss to coat with oil mixture. Bake for 8-10 more minutes or until shrimp start to curl and brown, check often.  If the shrimp is still pink, flip it to the boiler for a couple minutes. Serve over pasta, enjoy!

The left over butter /olive oil in the pan is perfect to roll corn on the cob in!

 

The original recipe was found here. I tweaked it a little more to my liking. :)