Creamy Lemon Garlic Butter Shrimp are coated in a rich sauce that is bursting with lemon flavor. This show stopper shrimp dish can be made in under 20 minutes!
Course Appetizer, Dinner, Main Dish
Cuisine American
Keyword seafood appetizer, shrimp
Prep Time 8 minutesminutes
Cook Time 11 minutesminutes
Servings 6
Ingredients
6tablespoonsbutter,divided
4garlic cloves,minced
1/2teaspooncrushed red pepper flakes
2poundslarge shrimp, peeled (tails left on) and deveined
Melt 2 tablespoons of butter over medium heat in a large skillet.Add the garlic and red pepper flakes and cook for 1 minute.
Add shrimp, salt, pepper, and cajun seasoning and cook until shrimp are mostly pink. (They will cook more later so they don't need to be all the way cooked.)
Remove shrimp from skillet and set aside. Add lemon juice to skillet and cook until reduced a little.
Add heavy cream and stir to mix it into the lemon juice. Bring to a boil and simmer for 3 to 4 minutes to thicken it some. Turn heat down a little. Cut the remaining butter into slivers and stir it into the sauce until melted.
Return shrimp to skillet. Add parsley. Stir shrimp into sauce and cook until shrimp are cooked through.