Shrimp Scampi

We hadn't had seafood in a while, so I did an allrecipe.com search for "shrimp" and this is what came up. Good stuff!

INGREDIENTS:

-1 cup olive oil

-2 lbs large shrimp - peeled and deveined

-1 cup all-purpose flour

-1 1/2 cups dry white wine

-1 tbsp Worcestershire sauce

-5 cloves garlic, minced

-5 tbsp fresh lemon juice

-1/2 cup chicken broth

-1/2 cup butter, diced

-salt and pepper to taste

-2 tbsp chopped fresh parsley

DIRECTIONS:

-In a deep skillet, heat the olive oil over medium-high heat. Lightly coat the shrimp in flour. In batches, saute shrimp in oil until golden brown; each batch should take approximately 2 minutes. Drain on paper towels.

-Discard oil and add the wine, Worcestershire sauce, garlic, lemon juice, and chicken broth to the skillet. Cook over high heat until liquid has reduced by half (approximately 5 minutes). Stir in butter and season with salt and pepper to taste. Lower heat to medium, add shrimp, cook for 1 minute (until shrimp are heated). Sprinkle with parsley before serving.

COMMENTS:

-We skipped the flouring of the shrimp. This was mostly for time and convenience sake, but someone also left a comment on allrecipes that the recipe was just as good without the flouring. They did say that if you opt to flour them, only put on a very very light coating.

-Because we didn't do the flouring, and our shrimp were already peeled, deveined, and precooked (yeahhhh Price Chopper), we just heated up the shrimp a little, then took them out to do the sauce, and put them back in at the end. No draining required.

-2 things that we would do differently. First, we bought small shrimp because they were on sale. Mistake! Big shrimp would have been more filling. (We ended up snacking on carrots after dinner to compensate...haha) Second, I heated the liquid for 5 minutes like they said, and I thought the liquid reduced by half, but I think I was wrong. There was a lot more liquid at the end than I think there should have been. Hence the eating of the shrimp in bowls. Maybe we should have reduced it longer?

-Either way, the shrimp tasted very good. Next time, I'll just cook longer and buy bigger shrimp! We served the broiled broccoli and garlic that you may remember from one of our past recipes--this was a really good side dish. Enjoy!