A light, quick and mouth-watering appetizer is shrimp in garlic sauce. They can be easily prepared, even when guests are already on the doorstep. The ingredients for the sauce are not so many, they are all available. This dish can also be called low-calorie, if you do not use heavy cream. You can serve such an appetizer both for a family dinner and for a festive feast. Garlic gives prawns a light piquancy and aroma. Combined with various ingredients, it’s just an amazing dish.
Easy simple snack
Let's start with a simple recipe. The calorie content of this dish is 73 kilocalories. This is for those who follow their figure. Well, those who want to cook fragrant shrimps in garlic sauce will need 700 grams of seafood, three tablespoons of chopped garlic (tablespoons), two tablespoons of olive oil, two tablespoons of lemon juice, two tablespoons of fresh, chopped parsley, half a small spoon of salt and the same amount pepper.
Peel the shrimp, rinse and boil for several minutes in slightly salted water. Do not digest them, otherwise they will be tasteless. For sauce, take a stewpan or pan. First, fry the chopped garlic in olive oil, but not for long. It will be very bad if it burns. Then remove the garlic and add lemon juice, pepper, parsley and salt to taste. The dish can be served at the table. As you can see, cooking shrimp in garlic sauce is not so difficult.
Shrimps in garlic cream sauce
This dish will take longer to prepare, but it's worth it. Take 12 cloves of garlic, a quarter teaspoon of Tabasco sauce, olive oil, 50 grams of Parmesan, a small spoonful of dried basil, spices, 400 grams of shrimp, 200 milliliters of non-fat cream and a small spoonful of butter. As a side dish we will serve funchose (500 grams).
We heat the oven to 180 degrees. On a baking sheet covered with foil, put the unpeeled garlic cloves (leave a few). Then sprinkle them a little with oil and wrap. Put the baking sheet in the oven for 20 minutes. After that, peel the husks and crush the garlic with a fork. Heat a frying pan with oil and put in it the remaining chopped garlic. Fry it and discard. So we get garlic oil. Spread prepared shrimp in a frying pan and fry them for 30-40 seconds. Set them aside in a separate plate. In another pan or in a saucepan, melt the butter, add the cream (can be replaced with sour cream), salt, tabasco, pepper and salt. You can add a little broth. Stew the sauce for about a minute to melt the cheese. Then pour basil in it, spread the shrimp and baked garlic. Stew the shrimp in the garlic sauce for about a minute and turn off the heat. Soak the funchozo for 5 minutes, then cook for 4 minutes and rinse. Shrimps in sour cream and garlic sauce served with hot garnish.
Shrimp in the oven
For shrimps prepared according to the following recipe, you can serve two sauces. To prepare this dish, you need to take 800 grams of shrimp (preferably king), one lemon, 4 large tablespoons of olive oil (you can take any), two tablespoons of dry oregano, 4 peeled cloves of garlic. For the first sauce you will need a large red pepper, a spoonful of balsamic vinegar, a spoonful of olive oil, salt, cayenne pepper.
For the second sauce, you need to take a head of garlic, a spoonful of olive oil, two tablespoons of white wine (dry), salt, lemon zest and pepper. Lemon juice, oregano, oil and minced garlic are mixed in a separate bowl. It will be a marinade. Place shrimp in it, mix and leave for three hours. Then we preheat the oven and put in it a baking sheet covered with parchment paper, on which we spread the shrimp in one layer. Bake exactly 8 minutes.
Two sauces
While preparing the shrimp, make two sauces. Wrap pepper and garlic in foil and put in the oven. Bake for 40 minutes. After that, we make the first sauce out of pepper. Grind the vegetable with a blender and combine with the rest of the ingredients. Add spices to taste. For the second sauce, grind the baked garlic, add the remaining components and use the blender to make mashed potatoes. Serve king prawns in garlic sauce or pepper dressing. Both options are very good!
Tiger chrimp
To prepare this dish, you need to take 12 tiger shrimps, 100 milliliters of white wine, 1.5 tablespoons of chopped garlic, two tablespoons of butter, 3 tomatoes, parsley, basil and thyme. Grill shrimps. Peel the tomatoes, cut the flesh into cubes and fry with garlic.
Then add the wine to the pan and evaporate the liquid a little. Now you need to add chopped greens into the sauce and put the butter. We mix everything well and put the shrimp in a pan. We warm them well and turn off the fire.
Tiger prawns in garlic sauce served with herbs and lemon slices.
Creamy garlic sauce
Take 500 grams of any shrimp, a few cloves of garlic, 10 tablespoons of soy sauce, cream, butter and olive oil, flour and 100 grams of water. Shrimps in garlic sauce are prepared as follows. Grind the garlic in any way and fry it with the addition of oil.
Then remove the vegetable and put butter and sauces in a frying pan. Next, add the shrimp. Mix water with flour and pour to the rest of the ingredients. Stew for a few minutes. Sprinkle with lemon and serve shrimps in a garlic sauce. The photos of dishes presented in the article should make the hostesses have a burning desire to treat their relatives with such an exquisite treat. Enjoy your meal!