Easy Shrimp Dinner
Prep Time 10 minutes- Cook time 10 minutes – Total time 20 minutes
Your Easy Shrimp Dinner will be done in 15 – 20 minutes and once that you’ve made it and enjoyed it you will add it to your repetoir of quick and easy recipes.
Ingredients
These amounts are for 2 servings. If you want different servings amounts scroll down to the recipe card that is below this posting. There you can change the number of servings and it will change all of the amounts of all the ingredients.
- 12large or jumbo shrimp – peeled and deveined
- olive oil
- black pepper to taste
- 2 medium size potatoes
- 8 cloves fresh garlic – sliced or chopped
- 2 large handfuls pre cleaned fresh spinach
- grated parmesan cheese – for serving
How to easily make your Easy Shrimp Dinner happen
If you have to thaw out your shrimp don’t worry, just put them in a bowl and cover them with water. While they are thawing in the water slice up or chop the garlic and clean off the potatoes. Poke holes in the potatoes in a few spots and put them in a ceramic bowl in the microwave. Set it at five minutes.
Put a skillet on at medium high and swirl in just enough olive oil to cover the bottom.
The shrimp will have been softened up by now. If they have to be peeled and deveined go at it. Pat them dry with a paper towel.
Spread the shrimp out in the skillet and cook each side until it turns pink.
When both sides are pink and the middle is opaque add the garlic.
Check the potatoes and if they need to get a little softer zap ’em a little more. When the garlic just starts to turn translucent and is smelling good add the spinach.
Toss everything together as the spinach softens. If you would like your spinach with a little bit of body to it and not mushy that will happen very quickly. If you like it really softened up that will only take just a ten or fifteen seconds more.
Slice the potatoes open, put in a dash of olive oil or butter and serve up your Easy Shrimp Dinner. We really like it and it is a regular at our house. Some grated parmesan cheese over all of it is nice too.
If you can forego the gluten free you could have some pasta agilo e olio instead of the potatoes.
I’ll bet that you will also like this Shrimp Fried Rice recipe
Super Quick and Easy Shrimp Dinner - Gluten Free - Paleo
Ingredients
- 12 large or jumbo shrimp peeled and deveined
- olive oil
- black pepper to taste
- 2 medium size potatoes
- 6 cloves fresh garlic sliced
- 2 lage handfulls pre-cleaned baby spinach
- grated parmasan cheese for serving
Instructions
- If you have to thaw out your shrimp don't worry, just put them in a bowl and cover them deep with water.While they are thawing in the water slice up the garlic and clean off the potatoes. Poke holes in the potatoes in a few spots and put them in a ceramic bowl in the microwave. Set it at five minutes. Put a skillet on at medium high and swirl in just enough olive oil to cover the bottom. The shrimp will have been softened up by now. If they have to be peeled and deveined go at it. Pat them dry with a paper towel.
- Spread the shrimp out in the skillet and cook each side until it turns pink. When both sides are pink and the middle is opaque. add the garlic. Check the potatoes and if they need to get a little softer zap 'em a little more. When the garlic just starts to turn translucent and is smelling good add the spinach.
- Toss everything together as the spinach softens. If you would like your spinach with a little bit of body to it and not mushy that will happen very quickly. If you like it really softened up that will only take just ten or fifteen seconds more.
- Slice the potatoes open, put in a dash of evoo or a pad of butter and serve up your Easy Shrimp Dinner. We really like it and it is a regular at our house. Some grated parmesan cheese over all of it is nice too. If you can forego the gluten free you could have some pasta agilo e olio instead of the potatoes. We recommend a chilled white wine of your choice, like a pinot grigio or a chablis.
Thank You Joan!!
Sounds so delicious, I can’t wait to make it! Probably this weekend!