Recipe Background
Fancy Shrimp Casserole offers a blend of tender shrimp, butter, herbs, and spices, easily prepared for a delightful culinary experience.
Fancy Shrimp Casserole is a delightful blend that’ll take your taste buds on a joyful ride. The aroma of butter melting into herbs like oregano and fresh parsley gives your kitchen an irresistible aroma. Each bite of tender shrimp, lightly kissed by a hint of sherry and a zing of lemon rind, delivers a perfect balance between elegance and comfort. This dish is an orchestra of flavors with a little heat from chili flakes and the subtle sweetness of nutmeg dancing around your palate. Perfect for impressing friends without spending what feels like a year in the kitchen. It's simplicity expertly disguised as culinary brilliance.
Creating this gem isn't just easy, it’s a joy. With only a few ingredients blended into a playful compound butter that tops plump shrimp, it’s a recipe that’s forgiving and flexible. Even if you’re a self-declared kitchen klutz, this dish is forgiving and rewarding. You'll find the creamy richness combined with the vibrant crunch from the breadcrumb topping adds both texture and a playful twist. So go ahead and dive into this little seafood adventure, and you might just find yourself searching for reasons to make it a weeknight regular.
Ingredients
- 1 stick plus 2 tablespoons butter at room temperature and divided
- 1/2 cup breadcrumbs
- 1 tablespoon lemon rind
- 1/4 cup plus 1 tablespoon parsley chopped and divided
- 1 tablespoon oregano chopped
- 2 tablespoons garlic divided
- 1/4 teaspoon chili flakes
- 1/2 cup sherry divided
- nutmeg to taste
- salt to taste
- pepper to taste
- 1-1 1/2 pounds shrimp (16-20 jumbo shrimp) deveined and shelled
- 2 scallions chopped
Directions
- Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F.
- In a bowl, combine 1 stick of the butter with the breadcrumbs, the lemon rind, 1/4 cup of the parsley, the oregano, 1 1/2 tablespoons of the garlic, the chili flakes, 1/4 cup of the sherry, the nutmeg, the salt, and the pepper, whisking well to combine everything into a compound butter.
- Heat the remaining butter on medium-high heat in a skillet.
- Add the shrimp, the scallions, the remaining parsley, the remaining garlic, the remaining sherry, the salt, and the pepper to the melted butter.
- Mix the shrimp in the skillet well and cook until they are light pink in color and about to curl up, about 1-2 minutes.
- Transfer the shrimp and the sauce it cooked into in a casserole dish.
- Top each of the shrimp with a generous dollop of the compound butter mixture.
- Bake until the top becomes golden brown and the shrimp are cooked through to 145 degrees F, about 20-25 minutes.
- Serve immediately.
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