Lemon-Garlic Shrimp Skewers

Name: Lemon-Garlic Shrimp Skewers
Prep time: 1 h 45 min
Cook time: 1 h 45 min
Total time: 1 h 45 min
Yield: 8
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 2 or 3 cloves garlic, peeled and minced; 1 teaspoons fresh-ground pepper; 2 Tbsps kosher salt; 1 Tbsp grated lemon peel; 8 servings Lemon wedges; 59 milliliters olive oil; 59 milliliters chopped parsley; 907 grams peeled, deveined shrimp (12 to 15 per lb.), rinsed and drained; 2 Tbsps sugar

Lemon-Garlic Shrimp Skewers might be just the main course you are searching for. This recipe serves 8. One portion of this dish contains around 23g of protein, 8g of fat, and a total of 189 calories. This recipe covers 14% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. It is a good option if you're following a gluten free, dairy free, and pescatarian diet. If you have parsley, fresh-ground pepper, kosher salt, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. To use up the sugar you could follow this main course with the Whole Wheat Refined Sugar Free Sugar Cookies as a dessert.

Instructions

In a bowl, mix salt and sugar.

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Add shrimp and stir gently to coat. Cover and chill 45 minutes to 1 hour. Rinse shrimp well and drain; also rinse and dry bowl.

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Return shrimp to bowl.

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Add olive oil, parsley, lemon peel, garlic, and pepper.

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Mix to coat. Thread shrimp on metal or soaked wooden skewers, running skewer through the body once near the tail and once near the head end of each shrimp so it looks like the letter C.

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Lay shrimp skewers on an oiled barbecue grill over hot coals or high heat on a gas grill (you can hold your hand at grill level only 2 to 3 seconds); close lid on gas grill. Cook, turning once, until shrimp are bright pink and opaque but still moist-looking in center of thickest part (cut to test), 5 to 6 minutes total.

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Serve with lemon wedges to squeeze over shrimp.

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Wine Pick: Dry ros or Sauvignon Blanc. The shrimp are both sweet and salty, so they call for some soft, round fruit balanced with crispness in a wine. Bonny Doon Vineyards' Ca' del Solo Big House Pink ($1

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meshes perfectly and is a great toes-in-the-sand beverage; Joel Gott's Napa Valley Three Ranches Sauvignon Blanc ($1

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works well too.

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or 3 cloves garlic, peeled and minced 1teaspoons

fresh-ground pepper 2Tbsps

kosher salt 1Tbsp

grated lemon peel 8servings

Lemon wedges 59milliliters

olive oil 59milliliters

chopped parsley 907grams

peeled, deveined shrimp (12 to 15 per lb.), rinsed and drained 2Tbsps

sugar

Recommended wine: Pinot Grigio, Riesling, Sauvignon Blanc

Pinot Grigio, Riesling, and Sauvignon Blanc are great choices for Shrimp. These crisp white wines work well with shrimp prepared in a variety of ways, whether grilled, fried, or in garlic sauce. One wine you could try is Rabble Pinot Gris. It has 4.9 out of 5 stars and a bottle costs about 20 dollars.