Garlic butter shrimp is a quick, 20 minute keto shrimp recipe that tastes like it came from a fancy restaurant! Read the reviews – people are raving about this recipe!
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Everyone thinks that food bloggers must eat such fancy dinners every night.
They imagine all this 5 star restaurant quality food coming out of the kitchen for every meal and, well, I don’t want to shatter any illusions you may have, but ha. Hahahaha.
I love good food and I can certainly cook a delicious meal.
Also, I am lazy and I love Netflix and laying on the couch while my dog does her weird purr-growl thing at me while I rub her belly.
Sooooo, it’s not all fancy dinners all the time.
In fact, it’s very often easy dinners that take about 20 minutes to make. Netflix isn’t going to watch itself, you know?
Luckily, I’ve gotten really good at making a 20 minute dinner taste like it came from a fancy restaurant. This lemon garlic butter shrimp recipe is one of those recipes, my friends.
Low carb shrimp recipes are the best, because shrimp cooks so dang fast and easily. Our cilantro lime shrimp and creamy tuscan shrimp are a couple of other quick favorites!
Ingredient Notes:
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Shrimp – I like jumbo shrimp, but you can use any size. You’ll want to use either fresh shrimp, or frozen and thawed shrimp.
Garlic Butter Sauce – This savory garlic butter shrimp sauce is amazing – it’s just butter, garlic, lemon juice, and a bit of broth and red pepper flakes.
This recipe is ready in just 20 minutes from start to finish!
This dish is naturally low carb – no funky ingredients or weird swaps and everyone loves it, regardless of diet!
Check the reviews – this dish is made to impress guests and it does the job well!
Helpful Tools:
Cast Iron Skillet – A good cast iron skillet really does make a difference! They can get really hot, and they are perfect for frying things like shrimp, or bacon! Get yourself a nice large cast iron sized skillet so you have plenty of room.
Citrus Squeezer – This handy tool is made for squeezing lemons and limes! It cuts down on mess and you can be sure you’ll get every last drop of citrus out of the fresh fruit.
How To Make Garlic Butter Shrimp:
Shrimp – Heat up a skillet and add in some butter. Once the butter is melted, drop in your shrimp and cook, stirring occasionally, until the shrimp are cooked through. This should take about 5 minutes, depending on the size of your shrimp. You’ll know they’re done when they turn a pretty pink. Remove the shrimp to a plate and set aside.
Garlic – Drop some minced garlic into your hot pan and stir it around for about 30 seconds. Whisk in some chicken broth and let that reduce for a few minutes, stirring often. Once your chicken broth has reduced down, add some butter. This is going to make the sauce so rich and creamy.
Lemon – Squeeze in a bit of lemon and add a dash of red pepper. The amount called for won’t really give you a spicy garlic shrimp, but it does give it just a little kick. Add more or less depending on your tastes. You really can’t mess this up.
Mix – Finally, add your shrimp back into the sauce, give it a good stir, and add in some fresh parsley.
Serve –If you’d like to keep this low carb, but go the garlic butter shrimp pasta route (and why wouldn’t you want to do that?), the shrimp is so amazing served over zucchini noodles.
Just spiralize your zucchini, pat it down to remove any excess water, and then toss it in a hot pan with a little olive oil. Cook for about 2 minutes and then drizzle the zoodles with a little of this buttery garlic sauce and top with the shrimp!
FAQs:
Personally I’m not a big fan of leftover seafood(fresh is best!), but this garlic butter shrimp will keep in the fridge for up to 3 days if well sealed.
Shrimp is a nutritious protein that’s low in calories, high in protein, and packed with vitamins and minerals.
For more seafood, check out my lemon baked cod. And if you’re just really feeling the easy recipes, try these slow cooker chicken wings. They’re tossed in BBQ and you’ll never guess what my low carb BBQ sauce is made of. 🙂
Even More Keto Seafood Recipes:
- Keto Salmon Recipe
- Cajun Salmon Recipe
- Air Fryer Scallops
- Parmesan Crusted Cod
- Homemade Tartar Sauce
If you like this garlic butter shrimp recipe, let me know in the comment section below.
Garlic Butter Shrimp
Ingredients
- 1 pound large raw shrimp peeled and deveined
- 6 tablespoons butter divided
- 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
- 1/2 teaspoon black pepper
- 5 garlic cloves minced
- 1/2 cup chicken stock
- ¼ teaspoon red pepper flakes
- 2 tablespoons lemon juice
- 2 tablespoons minced parsley
Instructions
- Heat 2 tablespoons of butter in a large heavy bottomed skillet over medium heat.
- Add the shrimp to the skillet and sprinkle with salt and pepper.
- Cook, stirring occasionally, for 4-5 minutes or until shrimp is cooked through.
- Remove shrimp to a plate and set aside.
- Add the garlic to the skillet and cook, stirring constantly, for 30 seconds.
- Add the chicken stock and whisk to combine. Simmer until stock has reduced by half about 5-10 minutes.
- Add the remaining 4 tablespoons butter, lemon juice, and red pepper to the sauce. Stir to melt the butter and cook for 2 more minutes.
- Remove from the heat and return the shrimp to the sauce. Sprinkle the parsley over the top and stir to combine.
- Serve immediately.
Linda says
I love this! Thank you so much!
Robyn says
This is awesome, I also made it with grilled chicken because my kids don’t like shrimp! It was a hit
Theresa C says
Made half the recipe this time around. Could easily make round after round without end but my saving grace is how fast and easy and totally delicious it is to make any time! Oh had some mashed cauliflower “potatoes” and put sauce on mashed, circled with shrimp and more sauce (along with homemade cranberry sauce on the side). Amazing combinations!
Karly Campbell says
Sounds amazing! 🙂
Betty White says
First time I ever cooked raw shrimp!! This was easy and delicious had it over cauliflower rice risotto! It was fabulous! Thank you so much!! Only my second week on KETO, but will make this again!!
Karly Campbell says
So glad you gave it a try! 🙂
Alicia Eddings says
This was delicious! Didn’t have any chicken broth but it still turned out great! So glad I found you 🙂 Keep up the good work!
Joni says
Loved this… i added spaghetti sqaush at the end and mixed it all together… very tasty…
Charlie says
I added some white wine, before cooking down the sauce… came out great !!!
Nina says
Amazing is the only word to describe this!! Definitely and absolutely amazing! Going in my recipe box!!!
cyndi says
I am thinking of doing this but only have cooked shrimp, i wonder if i can just make the sauce, skipping the shrimp-cooking step and add the cooked shrimp in at the end and just plan to let it warm through?
Karly Campbell says
Should work fine!
Richard Kohout says
Recipe looks great, thank you! I was just wondering, do you use cooked shrimp or raw shrimp in this recipe.
Karly Campbell says
The shrimp is raw prior to cooking.
Bobbie says
Can you make this dish with olive oil instead of butter? Trying to cut down on saturated fat.
Thanks
Karly Campbell says
I haven’t tried this.
Audra says
Last-minute dinner tonight. Googled “shrimp stir fry” and this was the first recipe to come up. It was AMAZING! My 10-year-old son turned his nose up at first – insisted he doesn’t like shrimp. When he tried it, his eyes kind of rolled back and he said that THIS is the way all shrimp should taste! I added some onions to the sauce just because I had to use them up. Awesome recipe!! Keeper for sure
Nikki S says
This was literally amazing!! Super flavorful creamy sauce, I never thought to use chicken stock before! We loved it!!
Darryl says
I just LOVE Garlic Shrimp.. I pretty well like Shrimp with everything…
Andrea says
I love the how you took the “high road” in your response to rude dude above…..
Max says
I just made this today and it’s delicious! I’m just starting the keto way of eating and it just doesn’t seem like a person could lose weight eating such yummy foods! I had a pkg of frozen spiralized zucchini and used that for the noodles. SO good!
Linda Swoveland says
I’m making this for dinner tonight. It sounds absolutely amazing and delicious. I’m low carb because of type 2 diabetes. I’ll get my carbs from a slice of good crusty bread, to sip up the yummy broth. I’m going to try this same recipe with in the shell mussels. Thank you for sharing your amazing recipes.
Maggie Martin says
Girl, I nearly strangled myself, right in the middle of stuffing Steak Bites in my big mouth, I read this recipe for the Garlic Butter Shrimp, nearly choked! Had to get to the grocery and buy some shrimp! Holy cow!! Keep this great stuff coming. I’m going to try the Zuchinni Goulash next.
Have a great day
Maggie
Karly Campbell says
hahaha! So glad you’re enjoying the recipes! 🙂
Akia says
Made this shrimp exactly as the recipes says and it was delicious. My family and I poured it over garlic Parmesan mashed cauliflower and it was one of the best Keto meals I’ve ever had. Thank you for the recipe.
Karly Campbell says
That’s great to hear! Thanks for sharing!
Jessica Parrish says
This was absolutely amazing and super easy. We put it on whole wheat fettuccini with olive oil.