Name: Garlic Butter Shrimp
Cook time: 5 min
Total time: 5 min
Ingredients: 5 tablespoons unsalted butter; 1 pound raw jumbo shrimp (peeled and deveined, tails on); ¼ teaspoon garlic salt; salt (to taste); black pepper (freshly ground, to taste); 4 cloves garlic (minced); 1 lemon (juiced (about 2-3 tablespoons)); 1-2 tablespoon fresh parsley (chopped)

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Lots of butter, fragrant garlic, and bright, citrusy lemon juice make for the simply delicious Garlic Butter Shrimp. Cooks in just 5 minutes! Super easy recipe, delicious results.

Garlic butter shrimp coated in plenty of garlic butter sauce topped with fresh chopped parsley.

Why You’ll Love This Recipe

Easy Weeknight Dinner: Simply melt butter in a pan, add shrimp and seasonings, then stir and cook, adding garlic in the end. It’s that easy!
Time-Saving Recipe: This garlic butter shrimp recipe cooks in just 5 minutes, and requires very little prep!
Great flavor: This recipe focuses on simple, delicious ingredients like lemon, butter, and pepper for outstanding flavor. Serve with chicken fettuccine Alfredo, blackened salmon, and garlic toast.

5 Min Garlic Butter Shrimp

The other day, Erik and I were sooooo fed up with cooking. Like, why can’t this be easier?!? The prep work, the cooking, the dishes! So we decided to create this recipe for garlic butter shrimp. It’s ridiculously easy to make, with very little prep and just 5 minutes of cook time. This easy dinner is packed with garlicky, buttery flavor, big shrimp goodness, and the simplest, tastiest ingredients. Fresh, homemade seafood dinner? We’ve got this!

Garlic Butter Shrimp recipe ingredients - peeled and deveined shrimp, unsalted butter, garlic salt, garlic, lemon juice, salt, pepper, and fresh parsley.

Butter Garlic Shrimp Ingredients

Shrimp – we’ll use raw, large shrimp that’s already been peeled and deveined (it’s so much easier to buy the shrimp ready to go).
Unsalted butter
Garlic salt – this is my go-to homemade recipe.
Garlic – mince 4 cloves of garlic or use the equivalent of ready-made minced garlic (4 teaspoons).
Salt & pepper
Lemon – juice 1 lemon, which amounts to 2-3 tablespoons.
Fresh parsley – a pretty garnish for your butter garlic shrimp!

Fully cooked butter garlic shrimp in a pool of flavorful butter sauce in a skillet.

How to Make Garlic Butter Shrimp

Today, we’re learning how to cook this dish with minimal ingredients, minimal fuss, and lots of flavor. The result is a savory and mouthwatering seafood dish that you can pair with veggies, rice, pasta, and so much more.

Melt the butter: Bring a large skillet with butter to medium high heat. Melt the butter and add shrimp, garlic salt, salt, and pepper.

Process photo showing someone sprinkling garlic salt over raw shrimp and butter in a skillet.

Cook the garlic butter shrimp: Cook on one side for about 3 minutes, stirring occasionally. Flip, then cook until shrimp turns pink, about 2-3 more minutes. Stir in garlic, then lemon juice.

this butter garlic shrimp recipe is done cooking in a large skillet since the shrimp is pink

Serve: Serve topped with the sauce from the pan and sprinkled with parsley.

What to Serve with Garlic Butter Shrimp

Wondering what to serve with this seafood recipe? Here are some delicious ideas to get you started, from grains and veggies to sides and more.

Pasta: reader-fave garlic butter pasta, easy tomato basil pasta, manicotti
Veggies: garlic parmesan roasted potatoes, easy blistered green beans, steamed broccoli
Bread: beautiful bruschetta, homemade roasted garlic bread
More seafood: salmon bites, more shrimp, tilapia
Dips: eel sauce, delicious aioli, tartar sauce

Easy garlic butter shrimp topped with parsley in a pan.

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Sending you all my love and maybe even a dove, xo Demeter ❤️

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