Garlic Butter Shrimp

Garlic Butter Shrimp is a high-protein fish recipe ready in 15 min. It makes 2 servings, each 390 kcal with 47 g protein. Beginner level, 8 ingredients.

Adapted from a home cook's recipe and measured by Cookpath.

  • 15 mintotal
  • Beginnerlevel
  • 390kcal a serving
  • 47 gprotein
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Garlic Butter Shrimp

What is Garlic Butter Shrimp

Shrimp cooked in a garlic butter sauce with soy sauce and a little sugar, served over rice and topped with spring onion.

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How to make Garlic Butter Shrimp

Tips from the cook

  • Take the shrimp out once they are mostly pink, as they finish cooking in the sauce.
  • Cook the garlic until just fragrant, not brown.
  • Let the sugar dissolve fully in the sauce before the shrimp go back in.
  • Spoon extra sauce over the rice.
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Meal prep and storage

Best eaten at once. Leftovers keep 1 day in the fridge.

Prep a few days

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Garlic Butter Shrimp substitutions

Out of something, or cooking around an allergy. Each swap was checked against a source.

Shrimp2 options
  • Chicken breast strips 1:1 by weight; cook a little longer

    Not seafood taste.

  • Firm tofu cubes 1:1 by weight

    Still contains soy.

Butter2 options
  • Vegan/dairy-free butter block 1:1 by weight

    Soft tub margarine fails in pastry and cheesecake base.

  • Olive oil use about 3/4 as much by volume

    Not for creaming or pastry; base goes oily.

Soy sauce2 options
  • Tamari (labelled gluten-free) 1:1

    Still soy.

    Still contains soy.

  • Coconut aminos 1:1 (sweeter, use a bit more salt)

    Less salty; dark, sold in health-food aisles.

Spring onions2 options
  • Chives 1:1 by volume, add at end

    Not cooked well.

  • Leek, thin use 1/2 as much (stronger)

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