Restaurant Recipes

Jim Dandy's Baked Garlic Shrimp

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Yield: 2 servings

Ingredients

  • 1/2 cup peeled whole garlic cloves
  • 2 tablespoons olive oil, + oil to coat baking sheet
  • 1/4 cup clam juice
  • 1/4 cup water
  • 1/2 teaspoon freshly squeezed lemon juice
  • 12 large shrimp, with tail and shell on, butterflied in shell*
  • Paprika, to taste
  • Melted butter

Instructions

  1. Make garlic puree by combining garlic cloves with 2 tablespoons oil in blender and blending until smooth paste forms. Set aside.
  2. Make baking stock by combining clam juice, water and lemon juice.
  3. Grease 8-inch square pan with remaining olive oil. Heat oven to 400 degrees F.
  4. Gently lift shrimp from shell but do not detach.
  5. Place butterflied shrimp, shell side down, in pan.
  6. Baste shrimp with reserved garlic puree, then sprinkle with paprika. (There may be garlic puree left over.)
  7. Pour baking stock into pan, but do pour it over the shrimp.
  8. Bake in preheated oven for 7 to 10 minutes or until cooked through.
  9. Serve with melted butter.

Notes

* To butterfly shrimp, cut slit down center of shrimp, but not all the way through.

Attribution

Jim Dandy's - Oak Creek, Wisconsin



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