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Simple Fried Shrimps

Ingredients

Scale
  • 1lb of large to jumbo size shrimps, shell in or out
  • Juice of half of big lemon
  • 23 garlic cloves
  • 2 tablespoons of olive oil
  • Small bunch of fresh dill
  • Ground black pepper to taste

Instructions

  1. Prepare ingredients
  2. If shrimps you use are frozen, let them thaw first, then pat them dry with pepper towels
  3. Peel garlic cloves, and flatten them with the flat side of the knife
  4. Pour olive oil to a big flat skillet, warm it up, add garlic cloves in and fry them in oil to infuse oil with garlic taste (until garlic is colored)
  5. Once ready, remove garlic from the skillet and put shrimps (if skillet isn’t big enough to fit all shrimps in one layer, you may want to fry them in batches), fry shrimps on one side over high heat for about 2 minutes (until colored)
  6. Then turn them over to another side and fry again until meat is white colored (don’t overcook)
  7. Move cooked shrimps to a bowl
  8. Season with ground black pepper
  9. Sprinkle with juice of half of lemon
  10. Add chopped fresh dill
  11. Mix