Freddie’s Baked Shrimp |...

Freddie is a kind of individuals who can open a cabinet or fridge, stare at all the pieces for a minute, and determine a scrumptious meal to make with no matter he finds. Are you a similar? It all the time impresses me, and I really like to sit down on the counter, do the New Yorker crossword puzzle, and watch him in motion.

This summer time, one of many meals he whipped up was spaghetti with tomato sauce, a inexperienced salad, and baked shrimp. A couple of readers requested concerning the shrimp, so I known as Freddie this morning, and he instructed me the steps. Right here goes:

Baked Shrimp
by Freddie

“My dad is a superb prepare dinner, and one factor I’ve discovered from him is how you can make a number of programs at residence and make it really feel particular. In our Italian-American household, macaroni is all the time a part of the meal, all the time with a home made sauce — that’s a degree of satisfaction. (No matter what sort of noodle it’s — normally penne or ziti — we name it ‘macaroni.’) For this particular dinner, I used to be making an attempt to make one thing simple, so I may hang around with my mother and father and Joanna. Sliding an enormous tray of shrimp into the oven was a great way to try this.”

You’ll want:
bag of frozen, pre-cooked shrimp
flour
salt
pepper
eggs
panko bread crumbs
spices, like paprika, garlic powder, onion powder (elective)
olive oil
lemon

Non-recipe recipe:

Preheat oven to 350F. Defrost the shrimp. Pull off the tails (in the event that they nonetheless have tails) and pat dry.

Set out your commonplace three plates: flour (you’ll be able to salt and pepper the flour, too, in case you’d like; Gordon Ramsay seasons virtually each layer with salt and pepper; it looks like such a small factor nevertheless it actually helps the ultimate product), egg wash, and panko bread crumbs (seasoned, in case you’d like, with paprika, garlic powder, onion powder, salt, and pepper). Gently coat every shrimp in flour, then egg; then press the shrimp into the bread crumbs.

Put tin foil on a baking sheet and unfold a skinny layer of olive oil on prime of the tin foil. Organize the shrimp in a single layer on the foil. Then drizzle just a little oil on prime of the shrimp.

Bake in oven for 10-Quarter-hour. Earlier than serving, drizzle lemon juice on prime of shrimp.

Serve with pasta with tomato sauce and inexperienced salad, in case you’d like. You possibly can eat the shrimp with the pasta or individually — breaded shrimp and pink sauce could be so, so good. Get pleasure from!

Ideas? What different shrimp recipes do you want? Listed here are a couple of CoJ favorites:

* shrimp with feta
* shrimp rolls
* chilled buttermilk-pea soup with shrimp
* five-ingredient Trader Joe’s shrimp tacos
* shrimp salad platter

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