The modern market can offer a rich selection of seafood, among which shrimp are especially popular due to their ease of preparation and reasonable price. Garlic goes especially well with this dish. cream sauce.

Preparation of ingredients

Before you start cooking shrimp, you need to pay attention to whether the product has been previously exposed to heat treatment or it is sold raw. This will depend on the speed of cooking.

It is not difficult to recognize a previously boiled product, since raw shrimp are gray, and on the market they are most often sold red, that is, already cooked.

Some people prefer to cook shelled seafood, but this is only possible if you serve the sauce separately. If you want to stew directly with shrimp, then it is better to clean each one in advance. Since this process is long, laborious, it is worth choosing types of shrimp that differ in size, that is, king or tiger, you can buy Argentine ones.

To begin with, the head is removed, then the shell is cut along the upper part of the tail ridge or it is bent, due to which it bursts itself. Then it's much easier to remove the skin. At the end, it remains only to remove the intestines, it can be seen with the naked eye along the entire length of the tail. A thin tube is hooked with fingers and pulled towards the thinnest part of the shrimp.

It is worth additionally rinsing the meat, it is advisable to use not just running water, but potato starch, since it will better remove dirt if the intestines are suddenly torn. If the shrimp is already boiled, then it is easier to clean it, since the meat has already moved away from the shell.

Time for preparing

Raw seafood is ready in five minutes after continuous cooking, but the cook should pay attention to the size: the smaller the shrimp, the faster it will cook.

As for boiled frozen ones, you just need to defrost them. Spread the product in garlic sauce 30 seconds until fully cooked. This will be enough so that the meat does not lose its taste and remains soft and juicy. If digested, it will turn into dust and will not bring any pleasure while eating the dish.

Recipes

You can cook simple fried shrimp in a rich lemon and garlic sauce in less than 20 minutes. The dish has only 120 calories per serving. You can eat with a regular French baguette.

For cooking you will need:

• royal or Tiger chrimp(pre-clean and wash in diluted potato starch);
• lemon juice;
• a few crushed garlic cloves;
• softened butter;
• Worcestershire sauce;
• a mixture of peppers;
• paprika;
• chopped fresh parsley or dill.

Preheat the oven to 425 degrees. Arrange the shrimp in a single layer inside the baking dish. mixed lemon juice and the next 5 ingredients, the resulting mixture is poured over the shrimp. Bake for 8-10 minutes. Sprinkle with parsley before serving. Preferably eaten hot.

You can make amazing seafood according to a different recipe.

It will require:

• kilogram of seafood (peeled);
• 1 egg white;
• some cornstarch;
• any vegetable oil you like.

For sauce:

• broth with a low fat content (preferably chicken);
• apple cider vinegar ¼ measuring cup;
• a couple of spoons of ketchup;
• a few tablespoons of black soy sauce;
• sherry;
• garlic in large quantities (finely chopped);
• ginger (be sure to grate);
• sugar;
• hot sauce to taste.

Already peeled shrimp are placed in a bowl and egg white is added, corn starch and 2 tablespoons of water. Mix well. The consistency should be airy, and the color should be milky.

In a metal container, heat 2 cups of oil to 280 degrees. Spread 1 shrimp in oil, and when the bubbles begin to rise, pour out the rest. Flip carefully to brown on both sides. Excess oil is easily removed: you can simply leave the seafood in a colander until it drains, or you can put it on paper towels.

For the sauce in a small saucepan, mix chicken bouillon, vinegar, ketchup, soy sauce, sherry, garlic, ginger, sugar and chili. Mix well, bring the garlic sauce to a boil. Shrimps are added and served.

There is an equally amazing option on how to cook shrimp in garlic sauce. It requires the following ingredients:

• small bow;
• 1 tablespoon of tomato paste;
• 1/4 teaspoon dried oregano;
• 1 teaspoon olive oil;
• raw shrimp, peeled and washed;
• 2 large cloves of garlic (chopped);
• 2 tablespoons white wine vinegar.

Spread oregano in a pan with olive oil, tomato paste, onion. Stew with a little water for 25 minutes. In a separate container, shrimp are quickly fried, they should take no more than three minutes. Add garlic to the tomato. When he gives up his flavor, you can return the seafood to the tomato paste for a minute and stew. Pepper is added at the end, immediately served on the table.

You can make shrimp with garlic sauce and serve it with pasta.

To prepare this lunch dish, you will need the following ingredients:

• pasta;
• 3 tablespoons unsalted butter;
• 3 cloves of garlic;
• 1/4 cup grated onion;
• raw shrimp;
• 1/2 cup whipped cream cheese;
• sour cream;
• some apple juice;
• 2 tablespoons fresh basil;
• 1/8 teaspoon black pepper.

This meal has 498 calories and is great as an alternative. healthy eating. It is popular due not only to its unique taste, but also to the content of sodium, phosphorus and calcium.

The shrimp will need to be cleaned first. Salt is added to a container of water, put on fire, wait until the water boils to throw pasta.

At this time, crushed garlic and onions are fried in a pan over medium heat with oil. Spread on top of the shrimp and simmer until they turn orange. The process takes 1 to 2 minutes. Then they take them out, turn down the fire, put cream cheese, sour cream, add juice. They wait until the moisture evaporates a little, then pour the shrimp back, turn off the fire, you can add greens. Serve pasta topped with shrimp and sauce.

Shrimps in sour cream and garlic sauce are served both as an independent dish and as an appetizer. You can use the mixture as a marinade, as it saturates the seafood with aroma and makes it incredibly tasty and healthy.

The recipe for shrimp in garlic marinade with unagi sauce, see the video below.

Now seafood has become very affordable. In addition, mussels, squid and other goodies get on our table.

And of course we want to learn how to cook them deliciously. Therefore, I bring to your attention 7 recipes for cooking shrimp in a creamy garlic sauce.

Earlier, I told you which ones you can cook. Now we will learn how to create an awesome lunch or dinner with them. Moreover, everything will take you no more than 15-20 minutes. The bulk of the time of which will be spent on preparing the ingredients and boiling the side dish in the form of pasta, spaghetti or rice.

Shrimp can be used any - frozen, or if you're lucky, then fresh.

They are also prepared both raw and peeled. The first option is unacceptable for me, because the chitinous shell will not allow the sauce to penetrate into the meat and will not soak it. Although, sometimes this option is used when these “seeds” are served with beer. In other cases, I think that they need to be cleaned.

So, a simple and popular recipe for cooking is to fry them in garlic butter and creamy dressing.

You can take the seafood itself and simple fresh-frozen and boiled at home. Now we will take simple ones, defrost them and drain the excess liquid.

I recently learned a very interesting thing. It turns out that shrimp come to us already boiled, which is why they cook so quickly. This is done immediately on the ship, after the catch. Then they are already frozen and sent to the shops. We can say that we get a semi-finished product.

Let's take:

• shrimp fresh or frozen 300-400 g,
• cream 10% - 150-200 ml,
• garlic - 3-4 cloves,
• greens.

Defrost and clean the shrimp, remove all unnecessary. This list includes the head, tail, chitinous shell and intestinal vein (the dark thread along the vertebra). It may not be visible in all individuals. But if you saw it, then we hook it with our fingers and pull it out. It is more pronounced in large brindle or royal.

Now we will wash our hands, throw out all the garbage and proceed to the preparation of garlic butter.

For this, of course, take the garlic. To give it more of its flavor and essential oils, we will crush all the cloves with the flat side of the knife, and then finely chop them.

Heat up a frying pan with oil. You can take lean or creamy. Sometimes they are even mixed.

Saute garlic in hot oil for 1 minute.

Then add the peeled shrimp to it.

Rinse the greens, blot it with a paper towel and also chop finely. Spread the parsley, salt and pepper.

1 minute after adding the parsley, add the cream.

We reduce the heat to a minimum and torment our fragrant sauce until it starts to thicken.

About 2-3 more minutes.

Boiled shrimp with spaghetti and cheese sauce

Now we diversify the sauce with cheese, and first boil the seafood itself. To be honest, it's much easier to clean them this way. Let's take spaghetti for a side dish.

Let's take:

• 350 g peeled shrimp,
• 300 g spaghetti,
• 3 garlic cloves,
• 180 g hard cheese,
• 200 ml cream
• some greenery.

Let's start by boiling the shrimp. They cook incredibly quickly, so you definitely won’t have to yawn here.

For 2 liters of water, add 1 tbsp to the pan. salt. Bring the liquid to a boil and boil the frozen seafood for 2 minutes. Then we take them out with a slotted spoon or discard them on a sieve.

As soon as they cool down, so that our hands endure, we clean each little thing. Remove the head first, then the tail. Then we pick up the shell from the abdomen, moving from the thickened part to the tail. If there is a black vein along the ridge, then it must also be removed. This is an intestinal vein and we definitely don’t need it in food.

In the peeled form, the shrimp becomes much smaller, so pay attention to the fact that the weight of the peeled products is indicated in the recipe. So in frozen form they need to be taken twice as much.

Finely chop the herbs and garlic.

Grate the cheese into a separate bowl. It is better to use the fine side of the grater.

Now let's start preparing the side dish. To do this, pour water into a saucepan or ladle, salt it and put it on high heat.

As soon as it begins to boil intensively, we vertically lower the spaghetti.

As it boils, those parts that are in the water will begin to get wet and go down. So all the long sticks will go down inside the pan. Of course, we help pasta with our hands. Cook them for 8-9 minutes. We discard the spaghetti in a sieve to drain excess liquid.

Now let's start making the sauce. Put the garlic in a heated pan and fry it. After about a minute, lay out the shrimp. They are prepared quite quickly, they need no more than 3-4 minutes.

Therefore, we simmer this mass for 2 minutes, then add sour cream and cheese. After a minute, spread the finished pasta and mix everything.

It remains only to spread the yummy in portions on plates and accept praise from relatives.

Video recipe with pasta (pasta)

Spaghetti, of course, can be replaced with pasta and macaroni. In general, any pasta. However, nevertheless, I decided to give you a video recipe, where all the steps for preparing shrimp are described in detail.

I think that the recipes are very simple and will be remembered in a matter of minutes.

How to cook shrimp with soy sauce in a slow cooker

Of course, not a single recipe can do without this assistant. But in order not to repeat ourselves, we diversify the sauce a little. Namely, let's make it a little richer and saltier. Soy sauce will help us with this.

Let's take:

• 1 kg shrimp
• 1 garlic clove
• 5 g paprika
• 2 tbsp soy sauce,
• 2 tbsp vinegar,
• 3 tbsp cream,
• 40 g butter,
• 1 tsp lemon juice
• a pinch of salt

As always, we start by preparing the main ingredient. We clean the shrimp and fill them soy sauce.

Add vinegar and some salt. While we prepare the rest of the products, they will marinate a little and soak.

Chop the garlic for spice and put in a common bowl. We also sprinkle a little paprika on them.

Put the butter on the bottom of the bowl and melt it on the “Fry” mode.

As it starts to sizzle well, lay out the shrimp with marinade. After 2 minutes, add 3 tablespoons to them. cream. Fry for 3 more minutes and switch off.

Before serving, you can sprinkle seafood with lemon juice, and this way the taste will reveal even better.

Recipe with creamy garlic sauce with white wine and lemon

Portuguese cuisine teaches us to fry shrimp in wine. However, we will go even further and add cream sauce and lemon sourness to them. Believe me, it turns out just an unreal dish with a bright and unusual dressing.

Let's take:

• 250 g king prawns
• 3 garlic cloves,
• 1 lemon
• 180 ml dry white wine
• chili pepper on the tip of a knife
• 1 tbsp cream.

Let's take the shrimp and clean them. So that this product is already at the stage of a semi-finished product. When it remains only to finish it.

Now peel and finely chop the garlic.

Divide the lemon or lime in half. We only need one half. We will squeeze juice out of it. By the way, the second half of the lemon can go as a decoration for salads.

Pour vegetable oil into a frying pan, heat it and fry the garlic on it for 1 minute. Then we carefully remove it, it has already given up all its flavor and is no longer useful to us.

We put seafood in this fragrant oil and squeeze lemon juice to them.

A little salt and pepper. After 2 minutes, add wine.

And fry for another 4 minutes. We need the alcohol to evaporate, so do not cover the pan with a lid. Then season with cream and fry for another 2 minutes. All is ready.

If it seems to you that the sauce is watery, then fish out all the shrimp and separately simmer the mass for another 5-7 minutes until the density you need. Then the excess moisture will go away, and the seafood will remain tender and soft. If they are not pulled out and digested, then you can get "rubber" meat.

Shrimps baked in the oven in a creamy garlic sauce

Of course, when fried, shrimp become more high-calorie. Therefore, there is an alternative in their preparation - bake seafood in the oven. Of course, we will also use garlic cream sauce.

Let's take:

• 600 g peeled shrimp
• 3 garlic cloves,
• chili pepper on the tip of a knife,
• 7 tbsp cream,
• salt pepper.

Let's start with the preparation of seafood. To do this, we clean them from shells, tails, heads and intestinal wreaths.
As always, finely chop the garlic.

We tightly lay the shrimp in a mold and separately go to prepare the sauce.

To do this, in a separate bowl, mix the pieces of garlic, salt and pepper. Add some hot pepper to taste.

Mix it all with cream. And pour the sauce over the seafood.

We bake at 230 degrees for only 10 minutes. It turns out tasty, and low-calorie and healthy.

Delicious shrimp with lemon and rice for garnish

And now another savory recipe garlic-creamy sauce with the addition of lemon sourness. It turns out quite rich, so it is quite suitable for unleavened side dishes, for example, for rice.

Let's take:

• shrimp - 0.5 kg,
• 150 g cream
• 1 tsp flour,
• 2 tbsp lemon juice,
• 2 garlic cloves,
• 30 g butter,
• 1 tbsp olive oil.

Peel the shrimp and add flour to them. You can add a little salt for taste. At this stage, various spices are added, such as nutmeg. But now we can do without them. Add lemon juice to seafood.

And leave to marinate for an hour.

Then heat the butter in a frying pan, put a spoonful of olive oil to it. Mix and wait until the butter is completely melted.

Coarsely chop the garlic and add it to the oil. After a minute of frying, remove it from the pan. Add marinated shrimp to this garlic oil.

After 2 minutes, add cream. As soon as they boil, the stove can be turned off.

Separately, boil the rice until tender. And add it as a side dish.

I prefer to cook rice in a slow cooker.

The nuances of cooking and buying shrimp

And now some useful information:

Shrimps with a black head and black spots on the shell cannot be taken! This means that the product is spoiled and not suitable for food!

Thank you for your attention and I wish you bon appetit.

The shrimp go perfectly with the creamy garlic sauce. Tender meat goes well with no less delicate sauce, and garlic gives a special piquancy and spiciness. So seafood lovers will definitely like this dish. Shrimp appetizer cooks very quickly, and is eaten even faster, so you can safely cook several servings at once!

It is advisable to take boiled-frozen shrimp, already peeled. They are almost ready to eat, you just need to defrost them and simmer them in the sauce for 3-5 minutes. But if there were none, it doesn’t matter - previously unprocessed seafood will do. True, it will take a little more time to cook. Raw frozen shrimp are cooked for up to 10 minutes, plus another half hour will have to be spent cleaning them.

Ingredients

• shrimp 300 g
• garlic 2 teeth
• butter 20 g
• 10% cream 100 ml
• salt 2 slivers.
• parsley 5 g

How to cook shrimp in a creamy garlic sauce

1. First, defrost the shrimp. You can do this in one of two ways. If you have time, just pour them into a colander and let them defrost when room temperature. The second way is to simply rinse them under running cold running water.
2. 
   We clean the shrimp from the shell and head, remove the intestinal vein. The shell is easy to remove if you first make a cut along the back with scissors, and then remove the chitin plates in the direction from head to tail. The intestinal vein runs on the back, it can be easily removed by prying with a toothpick.
3. 
   Peel one or two cloves of garlic and lightly crush with the flat side of a knife to make it easier to chop. We chop it as finely as possible (you can use a press, but when crushed with a knife, the dish will turn out tastier). Heat a small piece of butter in a frying pan and put garlic in it.
4. 
   Fry for 20-25 seconds over medium heat without a lid, stirring with a spatula so that the garlic does not burn. We bring it to transparency, but in no case to a golden color, otherwise it will be bitter
5. 
   Pour 10 or 15 percent cream into the pan, add a little salt to taste (no more than 0.5 tsp). Bring the butter-garlic mixture to a boil.
6. 
   As soon as the sauce boils, dip the peeled shrimp into it. Simmer over low heat without a lid to thicken the sauce slightly - about 3-4 minutes for boiled-frozen shrimp or 8-10 minutes for raw. If desired, you can add a couple of pinches of a mixture of ground peppers.
7. 
   Sprinkle the shrimp in a creamy garlic sauce with finely chopped parsley, mix and immediately remove the pan from the heat. Cover with a lid and let the dish brew for a couple of minutes.

We serve a snack to the table in a warm form. You can complement the dish with a glass of white wine and slices of crispy baguette, lightly toasted in a dry frying pan. It will be very tasty!