Garlic Lemon Shrimp Recipe

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You'll be amazed that you can make this simple, elegant pasta in mere minutes. Serve with crusty bread to soak up all of the garlic lemon sauce. -Athena M. Russell, Florence, South Carolina

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Garlic Lemon Shrimp Recipe

Prep/Total Time: 20 min.

Yield: 4 Servings

15 5 20

Ingredients

1 pound uncooked large shrimp, peeled and deveined
2 tablespoons olive oil
3 garlic cloves, sliced
1 tablespoon lemon juice
1 teaspoon ground cumin
1/4 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons minced fresh parsley
Hot cooked pasta or rice

Directions

In a large skillet, saute shrimp in oil for 3 minutes. Add the garlic, lemon juice, cumin and salt; cook and stir until shrimp turn pink. Stir in parsley. Serve with pasta or rice. Yield: 4 servings.

Cooking for 2: Garlic Lemon Shrimp for 2

Nutritional Facts 3/4 cup (calculated without rice or pasta) equals 163 calories, 8 g fat (1 g saturated fat), 138 mg cholesterol, 284 mg sodium, 2 g carbohydrate, trace fiber, 19 g protein. Diabetic Exchanges: 3 lean meat, 1-1/2 fat.

Originally published as Garlic Lemon Shrimp in Taste of Home August/September 2009, p28