Refreshing, simple, and healthy shrimp recipe with cherry tomatoes, green onions, sliced almonds, basil, lemon. Serve lemon shrimp with cherry tomatoes over wild rice.
Lemon Shrimp with Cherry Tomatoes Tips
Lemon shrimp with wild rice is a light but still filling dinner. Want to make this dinner faster? Use white rice instead of wild rice - it cooks in ~ 15-20 minutes. Or serve over angel hair pasta and add a bit more olive oil.
Wanna up your game? Toast the almonds at 325F on a lined baking sheet~ 6-8 minutes if you want to give the nuts extra flavor.
Searing Shrimp Tips For This Recipe
Use a non-stick skillet for cooking the shrimp. It's easier for seafood and meats that don't contain a lot of fat. It's easier to learn, easier to cook, and easier to clean for most of us. Non-stick pans are more forgiving for delicate seafoods and meats.
Around 1 ⅓ pounds of shrimp fit perfectly in a 12" skillet. That would be enough shrimp for a serving size of 4 people. If you have less shrimp, use a 10" skillet. If you have more shrimp, cook the shrimp in batches, wiping out the pan between batches as butter can burn easily.
If trying to get a sear on the shrimp with all the good brown caramelized bits, turn up your heat and add a little olive oil if the shrimp start to burn. Don't crowd the pan for perfectly seared shrimp.
Conversely, if you don't care about the sear, the pan can be crowded and you will get more of a steamed or poached shrimp which is a "cleaner" feel.
Shrimp Tips:
Don't like peeling and deveining shrimp? Buy them fresh already peeled and deveined.
Or buy shrimp frozen and defrost them before using. Both of these options will speed up the prep time to get dinner on the table faster and easier.
Lemon Shrimp With Cherry Tomatoes
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Light but still filling. Refreshing, simple, and healthy wild shrimp recipe with cherry tomatoes, green onions, sliced almonds, and wild rice. Sit back and eat slow.
- Prep Time: 35 minutes
- Cook Time: 10 minutes
- Total Time: 45 minutes
- Yield: 6
- Category: Main Dish
- Method: Stovetop
- Cuisine: Coastal
- Diet: Gluten Free
Ingredients
Ingredient List Shrimp:
- 2lbs shrimp, peeled & deveined
- 2 tablespoon unsalted butter
- 1 tablespoon (~ 2 cloves) garlic, minced
- 3 cups cherry tomatoes, halved
- ¾ cup (~ 5 stalks) green onions, sliced
- 3 tablespoon capers, drained
- 2 medium (~ 3 Tbsp) lemons, juiced
- ¼ cup basil, chiffonade (sliced)
- ½ cup sliced almonds
- ½ cup feta cheese - optional as garnish
- ½ cup Parmesan cheese - optional as garnish
- salt to taste
- black pepper to taste
- 6 cups cooked wild rice
Instructions
- Lightly salt and pepper the peeled and deveined shrimp.
- Bring a large pan to medium high heat and add butter.
- Add the shrimp when butter is melted and sizzling.You may need to do this step in two batches if your pan is too crowded.
- Pan fry the shrimp ~ 2-3 minutes on the first side. Flip, add garlic, and lemon juice and cook ~ 1 minute on the second side or until cooked through and the garlic is fragrant.
- Add the cherry tomatoes, green onions, capers, pinch salt, pinch black pepper.
- Stir fry an additional 2-3 minutes just to make the tomatoes and onions warm.
- Plate over wild rice.
- Top with feta cheese, Parmesan cheese, almonds, and basil.
- Add salt to taste. Happy Eating! Beckie
Notes
- Want to make this dinner faster? Use white rice instead - it cooks in ~ 15-20 minutes.
- Wanna up your game? Toast the almonds at 325F on a lined baking sheet~ 6-8 minutes if you want to give the nuts extra flavor.
- Around 1 ⅓ pounds of shrimp fit perfectly in a 12" skillet. That would be enough shrimp for a serving size of 4 people. If you have less shrimp, use a 10" skillet. If you have more shrimp, cook the shrimp in batches, wiping out the pan between batches as butter can burn easily.
- Keep raw shrimp on ice as you work with them. This is especially helpful when working with a lot of shrimp that need peeled and deveined.
Serving Suggestion
Serve this Shrimp dish with a complementary light side dish and / or a salad like:
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Things In My Kitchen:
- Shrimp peeler & deveiner – this makes faster work of peeling & deveining. It’s not fancy but this plastic one works better than any out there made of steel or that have big clunky handles.
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