Garlic butter prawn is a quick and easy dinner or a delicious appetizer. A buttery lemon and garlic sauce is prepared in just 10 minutes, then the prawns and parsley are added to make this seafood dish. This recipe is incredibly easy and versatile, serve it as is or over pasta or rice for a more filling meal. You can find all my shrimp recipes here.

This shrimp recipe is quick and easy enough for a weekday dinner, but would make an excellent appetizer for cocktails or special occasions

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Prawns in

garlic butter sauce

For this recipe, we are making a quick garlic butter sauce. Don’t just add garlic to melted butter, which is perfectly fine, but not exactly a sauce.

First, we will make a roux by combining melted butter with a little flour. Then fresh lemon juice and some broth are added to make our garlic and lemon butter sauce.

Fear not, this silky garlic butter sauce is super simple and only takes a few minutes to join. The prawns are already cooked, so all you have to do is add them to the sauce to warm them up and you’re done! This recipe is quick, easy and incredibly delicious.

This dish looks super fancy, doesn’t it? When you serve this fancy-looking garlic butter prawn, you’ll get all the “oohs and ahs,” but only you and I will know that this took you 15 minutes and you barely sweated. Sit down and collect your praise, you deserve it.

Garlic butter prawns

This recipe would make a fantastic appetizer. You can serve this as a special occasion snack for Christmas Eve or New Year’s Eve. If you cook the 7 Fish Party on Christmas Eve, this would be a great addition to the party!

I really like these clear plastic teardrop appetizer spoons to serve ceviche or small bites like this prawn.

The holidays would be a perfect time to serve these to friends and family. Whether you’re having a casual family reunion or a fancy party with champagne and bites as the ball drops, this shrimp with garlic butter sauce would be right at home.

To serve them for dinner, I put them in mini tapas pans. If I wasn’t keeping an eye on my carb intake, I would serve these buttery garlic prawns with a piece of crusty bread to dip into the sauce.

We love prawns, so when I see them at Costco or Trader Joes, I grab them. Luckily, we are both seafood lovers in this house. Because they’re sold frozen, it’s easy to grab a couple of pounds and store them in the freezer until you’re ready to use them.

How to cook shrimp

Prawns are sold already peeled and cooked, then frozen. That’s the best part of making a shrimp recipe. To add them to your recipe, all you have to do to prepare them is thaw them and drain them well.

If you’re not familiar with prawns, the taste is similar to lobster, but they look a bit like crayfish. This delicate crustacean is super versatile and incredibly tasty. You can substitute prawns in recipes that call for lobster or shrimp.

Prawn is a term that can be used for some varieties of crustaceans, depending on where you are in the world. It can refer to a species of shrimp or a certain species of lobster, although technically they are related to a crab. A shrimp belongs to the lobster family and is different from a shrimp.

If

you’re following a low-carb or ketogenic diet, this is a great recipe for you. It fits perfectly into that diet, although you’d have to look at the macros about this to make sure it’s within the guidelines for a ketogenic diet.

Adding cauliflower, zucchini or green bean rice to this garlic butter prawn would make a tasty, low-carb dinner.

Prawn recipes

Prawns can be used in a variety of recipes, such as the following:

Mac and Cheese Prawn Étouffée Cold Shrimp Rolls Shrimp

• Hot and buttered shrimp rolls Shrimp rolls
• Chowder

shrimp

What can I serve with garlic butter prawn?

To make this a complete meal, here are a few options:

• Cucumber salad

with tomato

• Apple chutney bruschetta
• White beans with arugula and sun-dried tomato
• Unbaked parfaits lemon cheese

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