The Realtor's Shrimp Scampi W/Spaghetti

Realtor by day, Chef by night's Note:

This will blow you away. The first time you serve this, you'll be ok because they don't know how great it's going to be. The second time you serve this, you better put it on the table and get out of the way FAST cause they are going to knock you down trying to get to it. It's a recipe that I have developed through years of making it over and over and over. This is the best version I have been able to create. NOTE: This recipe is to be used with 1/2 pound of spaghetti. If you are using 1lb of spaghetti, double the recipe because there won't be enough sauce for a full pound. If you are doubling it, don't double the lemon juice or it'll be too tart, just bump it up to 3 Tbsp. and only bump the lemon pepper up to 3/4 tsp or it will be too salty for some people. MANGIA!

• Total Time: 30 mins
• Prep Time: 30 mins
• Cook Time: 0 mins

Ingredients:

Serves: 3

Yield: 3.0

• 2 tablespoons butter
• 2 tablespoons olive oil
• 2 tablespoons minced garlic
• 2 tablespoons white wine
• 2 tablespoons lemon juice
• 1 tablespoon parsley flakes
• ½ teaspoon lemon pepper
• 1 teaspoon Tabasco sauce (like Texas Pete)
• 1 lb shrimp , cooked and cleaned
• ½ lb thin spaghetti
• ½ cup grated romano cheese

Directions:

1. Start the water for the spaghetti and cook the spaghetti while you are doing the following.
2. In a skillet over medium high heat, melt butter, add oil and garlic. Cook garlic until it just starts to brown, about 4 or 5 minutes.
3. Add the wine, lemon juice, parsley, lemon pepper and tobasco.
4. Simmer 5 minutes.
5. After the 5 minutes are up, add the shrimp to the skillet and stir them around so they are covered with the juice and turn off the burner. Just let them soak in there, doing the backstroke through the sauce while the spaghetti finishes cooking. Stir them around a couple of times while you're waiting.
6. Drain the spaghetti and put it in the serving bowl, pour the shrimp and all the sauce over top and sprinkle the entire 1/2 cup (or more) of parmesan over the top and serve.
7. Pass more romano cheese at the table. Is there ever enough cheese on there?

Reviews

[Kendra*]

This was truly an outstanding recipe! It was very easy to put together and the directions were great. I did make one slight change. I sliced 5 green onions thinly, added the white parts when I added the shrimp, and topped with the green parts at the end of the recipe. Thanks so much for posting this recipe. It's going right into my Keepers folder!

[JackieOhNo!]

Another winner! This was so easy and fast, yet very flavorful. I made this exactly as posted, and wouldn't change a thing. Thanks for sharing this keeper. Made for Please Review My Recipe Tag Game.

[Kittencalskitchen]

really I would love to rate this more than 5 stars because that is what it is worthy of! I absolutely love this recipe, I reduced the parsley flakes down to 2 teaspoons and used all butter I also added in 1 tablespoon of crushed chili flakes and used freshly grated Parmesan cheese, please try this recipe you will not be dissapointed! thank your for sharing this Realtor!