This easy shrimp and rice recipe takes less than 30 minutes to cook and is delicious drizzled with garlic butter. Perfect for dinner tonight!
Course Dinner, Easy Dinner
Cuisine American
Keyword Rice recipe, Shrimp and rice, Shrimp recipe
Prep Time 5minutes
Cook Time 20minutes
Total Time 25minutes
Calories 553kcal
Author Alida Ryder
Ingredients
1onionfinely chopped
4garlic clovescrushed
2½cupswhite rice
½cupwhite wineoptional
400g/14 ozcrushed tomatoes
4cupschicken/fish stock
2cupsfrozen peas
1tspsalt
pepperto taste
For the shrimp
500g/1lbshrimp/prawnsshelled and deveined
2tbspolive oil
salt and pepperto taste
for the garlic butter sauce
2tbspbutter
4garlic clovescrushed
½cupwhite wine
½cup chicken/fish stock
1tbspfresh lemon juice
to serve
chopped parsley
lemon slices
Instructions
Heat the olive oil in a large, deep sauté pan. Add the onion and garlic and fry until fragrant and translucent.
Add the rice, stirring to coat the rice in the oil then add the wine (if using). Allow to simmer for a minute or two then add the tomatoes, stock and peas. Season with salt and pepper.
Reduce the heat, cover and allow to simmer for 15 minutes or until the rice is just cooked and the liquid has been absorbed.
In the meantime, fry the shrimp in a very hot pan until golden brown on both sides (at this stage it's not necessary to ensure the shrimp are cooked through as they'll steam for another 5 minutes with the rice later).
Remove from the pan then add the butter and garlic and allow to cook for 30 seconds before deglazing the pan with the wine. Pour in the stock and lemon juice then allow to cook for 5 minutes until slightly reduced.
When the rice has absorbed the liquid, remove from the heat then add the shrimp. Cover with a lid and allow to steam for 5 minutes.
Serve the shrimp and rice with the garlic butter sauce, lemon slices and parsley.