Shrimp Zucchini Scampi
Shrimp Zucchini Scampi with Carrots. Traditional shrimp scampi with a twist. Shrimp sautéed in a lemon butter white wine sauce with shredded zucchini and carrots.
Servings: 2 servings
Calories: 450kcal
Cost: $$$
Ingredients
- 4 tablespoons butter
- 4 cloves garlic sliced
- 2 medium zucchinis shredded
- 2 medium carrots shredded
- 1 teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon ground black pepper
- 12 ounces large shrimp cleaned
- ¼ cup white wine
- Juice of ½ lemon
Instructions
Preparing the Vegetables:
- In a large skillet or pot add in the butter and melt on high heat. Next, add in the garlic and sauté for 2 minutes, mixing occasionally.
- Next, add in the zucchini, carrots, salt, and ground black pepper and sauté for 2 minutes, mixing occasionally.
Bringing the Shrimp Zucchini Scampi Together:
- Continuing on high heat, add in the shrimp, white wine, and lemon juice and sauté for 2-3 minutes, mixing occasionally, or until the sauce reduces by half.
How To Serve Shrimp Zucchini Scampi:
- Serve this shrimp zucchini scampi over a bed of your favorite grain or pasta as a main entree.
Notes
Invent Your Recipe:
For this shrimp zucchini scampi dish, I am using zucchini and carrots as my vegetable of choice. However, you can really use any vegetable you like. I recommend eggplant, yellow squash, green beans, asparagus, spinach, broccoli, cauliflower or Brussel Sprouts. If you can shred or chop the vegetable into small pieces, it can be used in this recipe as written.
Instead of shrimp, you could also use scallops, boneless chicken pieces, boneless pork pieces, or sliced skirt steak. If switching out to poultry, pork, or beef I would add a few minutes on to the cooking time to ensure the meat is cooked through.
If you do not want to use white wine in this dish you can use seafood broth, chicken broth, vegetable broth, or water instead. In lieu of broth, you could also add in more butter or add olive oil. But this would also increase the fat and calorie content of the dish. I would recommend a broth as an alternative.
Nutrition
Calories: 450kcal