Fast Shrimp Dinner

Prep time 5 minutes Cook time 15 minutes

Here are the ingredients for your Fast Shrimp Dinner

For 2 servings

• Olive oil
• 1 Big handful green beans – rinsed and trimmed
• 1/2 medium size fresh onion cut into wide strips
• salt and papper
• 12 large shrimp – peeled and deveined
• 1/4 fresh lemon
• 3-4 cloves garlic – chopped
• 2 cups rigatoni pasta – or any pasta that you prefer

And here is how to make your Fast Shrimp Dinner

If you are using frozen shrimp put them in a bowl of water to thaw while you get the skillet started. Put a large skillet on at medium high and eyeball a couple of tablespoons of olive oil in it.

Now rinse off and trim the green beans. Or just get the ones in a plastic bag that are already trimmed and washed. Put the beans in the skillet and cut up the onion into wide strips and add it to the pan also.

Toss it all a few times as it cooks. And chop up 3 or 4 cloves of garlic.

If you have to peel and devein the shrimp get to it. Or you could buy them already peeled and deveined to make it even quicker and easier.

For the carb tonight I cooked up some pasta while the rest of the Fast Shrimp Dinner was getting ready. If the pasta is done before the stuff in the skillet just drain the water out and drizzle it with a little olive oil and stir it up to get it coated with the olive oil and put it back on the burner but with the heat turned off. Or you could soften – not completely cook – some potatoes in the microwave then cut them up and add then to the skillet. Or put some instant rice or gnocchi in the skillet when you put the beans and onions in and it would be done when everything else is.

When the onions are starting to get translucent push the veggies off to the sides of the skillet and put the garlic in the bare spot in the middle. Squeeze the juice from the fresh lemon on the pile of garlic and flatten it out.

Now the shrimp

Lay the shrimp out on the garlic and cook for about a minute to a minute and a half until the cooked side is pink. 

Then turn them over and when both sides are pink and the center is opaque the shrimp are done.

Serve up and enjoy your 20 Minute Weeknight Shrimp Dinner. Drizzle a little olive oil on the pasta and  little grated parmesan sprinkled all over everything, Some of Poppop’s easy homemade bread makes it all come together real good!   

Plus here is another very easy and very tasty shrimp dinner. And an Italian Shrimp Recipe

20 Minute Weeknight Shrimp Dinner - Quick and Easy

Course: Main Course, Seafood main course, Shrimp Main Course

Cuisine: American, Mediterranean

Prep Time: 5 minutes minutes

Cook Time: 15 minutes minutes

Total Time: 20 minutes minutes

Servings: 2

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Ingredients

• olive oil
• 1 big handful green beans rinsed and trimmed
• 1/2 medium fresh onion cut into wide strips
• salt and papper
• 12 large shrimp peeled and deveined
• 1/4 fresh lemon
• 3-4 cloves garlic chopped
• 2 cups rigatoni pasta

Instructions

• If you are going with frozen shrimp put them in a bowl of water to thaw while you get the skillet started. Put a large skillet on at medium high and eyeball a couple of tablespoons of olive oil in it.
• Rinse off and trim the green beans or just get the ones in a plastic bag that are already trimmed and washed. Put the beans in the skillet and cut up the onion into wide strips and add it to the pan also. A little salt and pepper. Toss it all a few times as it cooks.
• Put a pot of salted water on and then put some rigatoni - or penne -pasta in it to cook while the rest of the 20 Minute Weeknight Shrimp Dinner is getting ready. If the pasta is done before the stuff in the skillet just drain the water out and drizzle it with a little olive oil stir it up to get it coated with the olive oil and put it back on the burner but with the heat turned off.
• Chop up 3 or 4 cloves of garlic. When the onions are starting to get translucent push the veggies off to the sides of the skillet and put the garlic in the bare spot in the middle. Squeeze the juice from the fresh lemon on the pile of garlic and flatten it out.
• Lay the shrimp out on the garlic and cook for about a minute to a minute and a half until the cooked side is pink.  Then turn them over and pink up the other side. when both sides are pink and the center is opaque the shrimp is done.
• It's time to serve up and enjoy your 20 Minute Weeknight Shrimp Dinner. A little grated parmesan sprinkled over everything,a chilled bottle of a good Pinot Grigio and some of Poppop's easy homemade bread makes it all come together real well!