Buttery Shrimp

Recipe

• 1 pound large shrimp
• ¼ cup butter
• 1 teaspoon pressed garlic
• ¼ teaspoon salt
• ¼ teaspoon freshly ground white pepper
• ¼ cup finely chopped parsley

Peel and devein shrimp. Melt butter in a large skillet. Add garlic, salt and pepper and mix well. Stir in parsley. Add shrimp to hot mixture and sauté on one side until done, about 2 to 3 minutes. Turn and repeat on other side.

Contributed by Joyce Taylor  From: Mariner’s Menu: 30 Years of Fresh Seafood Ideas

DID YOU KNOW?

Shrimp are excellent swimmers even though they don’t have fins. They swim by moving appendages on the underside of their abdomen called swimmerets or pleopods.

Erika Young, Coastal and Marine Education Specialist