Shrimp is not only a beer snack, but also a full and healthy dinner. Many can only boil them or fry them in a pan, but how much taste the shrimps baked in the oven melt! With garlic and spices, lemon and ginger, in and without sauce, they all reveal aroma, delicate taste and delicate texture. You can also cook shrimp with vegetables, covering them with a cap of tender cheese, or simply fry on a baking sheet right in the shell.
Delicious Pickled Shrimp
This option is perfect for a hearty dinner, and for a party with snacks. For this dish you need to take:
- 800 grams of raw defrosted shrimp;
- juice of one lemon;
- four tablespoons of vegetable oil;
- a couple of tablespoons of dried oregano;
- four cloves of garlic.
To begin, garlic is peeled, finely chopped, put in a bowl. Add oil, spices, lemon juice, mix. After shrimp are sent to the marinade, mix again. The sauce is left for three hours, preferably at night. Stir it periodically so that the ingredients do not settle to the bottom of the bowl.
Shrimps are laid on a baking sheet covered with parchment. The remains of the marinade are also laid out. Better if you put them in one layer. If they are large, then bake shrimp with garlic in the oven for eight minutes. If small, then about five. The finished dish is served with a variety of sauces.
Appetizing Baked Shrimp
These prawns in the oven with garlic in shell are crispy, fragrant and delicious. Most often they are used as a snack for foam drinks. To prepare them you need to take:
- kilogram of king prawns;
- 220 ml of olive oil;
- six cloves of garlic;
- one chili pepper;
- several branches of cilantro;
- salt and juice of one lime.
Shrimps must be thawed in advance at room temperature. Garlic is peeled, chopped finely. The greens are washed, dried and torn into large pieces. Chili peppers are chopped, removing seeds.
Thawed shrimp are dried, put on a baking sheet, previously covered with parchment. Sprinkle with garlic and herbs, add pepper, salt. Sprinkle everything with olive oil. Send king prawns with garlic according to the recipe into the oven with a temperature of 190 degrees for five to six minutes. From time to time they are slightly stirred so that the oil flows down. The dish turns out to be very fragrant, and cilantro fits perfectly into the garlic dressing.
Seafood with dill: a delicious combination
This garlic prawn recipe is a great base for sandwiches. For cooking, you need to take the following ingredients:
- one hundred grams of butter;
- a couple of tablespoons of chopped dill;
- a couple of pinches of coarse salt;
- six cloves of garlic;
- zest of half a lemon;
- shrimp - 400 grams, peeled.
The garlic is peeled and passed through a press, added to a pre-softened oil, put dill and grated lemon peel here, mixed thoroughly, rolled into a plastic wrap in the form of sausage and put in the freezer for thirty minutes.
After shrimp are put in a bowl, cubes of fragrant oil are added. Add salt. Shrimp is cooked in the oven for about seven minutes at a temperature of 230 degrees. Serve in a deep bowl so that you can dunk bread in aromatic oil. You can also increase its quantity, soak it on one side of bread fried in a dry pan, and place shrimps on top. Such a sandwich can be decorated with a slice of lemon and serve as a snack.
Fried shrimp and rosemary
Sometimes the simpler the better! This can be said about this dish with a minimum of ingredients, but a maximum of taste. For this tasty and simple recipe for roasted garlic shrimp, you need to take:
- 400 grams of peeled shrimp;
- vegetable oil;
- three cloves of garlic;
- dried rosemary.
Peel the garlic, rub on a grater. Pour oil on a baking sheet, lay seafood, sprinkle with rosemary and garlic. Bake for five minutes. You can add a little salt. Periodically, you should water the shrimp with oil or turn them over.
Baked Shrimp with Cheese
This dish can be the basis for dinner. It is a juicy shrimp, tender mayonnaise and spicy garlic. To prepare it, you need to take:
- 900 grams of raw tiger shrimp;
- a cup of grated cheese;
- two tablespoons of mayonnaise;
- a tablespoon of grated garlic;
- some salt.
Raw shrimp peel. They clean their head, leaving a tail and a shell. Clean the intestines. An incision is made in the region of the abdomen in tiger shrimps, they are opened, and they are laid on a greased baking sheet.
All seafood is greased with mayonnaise, sprinkled with grated garlic, salt. A little cheese is put on each shrimp. Shrimp is cooked with cheese and garlic in the oven at a temperature of 200 degrees for 12 minutes. Serve the dish hot.
Shrimp in lemon dressing
This appetizer turns out spicy, with subtle notes of sourness. This option is very simple, but fragrant. To prepare you need to take:
- 800 grams of large shrimp;
- two tablespoons of lemon juice and olive oil;
- a couple of tablespoons of red ground pepper;
- two tablespoons of chopped parsley;
- a teaspoon of grated lemon peel;
- three cloves of garlic.
Peel and finely chop the garlic. The oven is preheated to 250 degrees. The baking dish is greased with oil, shrimps are laid in one layer. Lemon juice, olive oil, pepper, garlic and lemon zest are mixed, poured with this mass of shrimp. Shrimp bake with garlic in the oven at a temperature of 250 degrees for eight minutes. Ready dish sprinkled with parsley. Serve either hot or warm.
Shrimp with vegetables: tasty and satisfying
And this option is suitable for a full dinner. This dish does not require an additional side dish. For cooking take:
- six king prawns;
- 30 grams feta cheese;
- one tomato;
- half a bell pepper;
- a couple of cloves of garlic;
- a sprig of thyme;
- salt and black pepper;
- a tablespoon of olive oil.
Dice the garlic and bell pepper, finely enough. Oil is heated in a pan, both ingredients are fried for about five minutes, maintaining an average temperature.
Tomato grate, leaving the skin. Transfer it to the pan, stir, put salt and pepper and stew for another seven minutes.
In a dry frying pan, peeled shrimps are fried on both sides, for a couple of minutes each.
In a baking dish, put the vegetable mass, on top - shrimp. All is covered with crushed cheese. Bake vegetable sauce with shrimp and garlic in the oven for 15 minutes at a temperature of 180 degrees until the cheese melts. Serve this dish hot.
Spicy Shrimp in Sauce
This option is quite original, because seafood will be in tomato sauce. In addition, he suggests the presence of pots for baking. In them, the entire flavor of the ingredients will be fully disclosed. For this recipe you need to take:
- 500 grams of shrimp;
- two tomatoes;
- one chili pepper;
- one hundred grams of hard cheese;
- juice of half a lemon;
- four large cloves of garlic;
- a couple of tablespoons of olive oil;
- onion head;
- salt and pepper to taste.
Shrimp are thawed, cleaned, leaving only the tail. The oven is preheated to 180 degrees. Onions and garlic are peeled and finely chopped. It is better to remove seeds from hot pepper, cut it into medium slices. Tomatoes are peeled, the flesh is cut into cubes.
Tomato, pepper and garlic are placed in a blender bowl and chopped until mashed.
Heat oil in a pan, send onions there, fry until it becomes soft. After they put the shrimp and a lot of tomatoes and garlic. After introduced into the pan, lemon juice, spices. They put out just a couple of minutes, no more.
It is best to cook such shrimp in pots. Shrimps with sauce are laid out on them. Top cover with grated cheese. The pots themselves do not close. Bake the dish for about twenty minutes, serve until cool. For beauty, you can supplement the finished dish with a sprig of parsley.
Delicious shrimp dishes are simple, and most importantly, fast. Often garlic is added to them, because it gives off a wonderful aroma that boosts appetite. In addition, baked shrimp with garlic is a great option for dinner or snacks.