Incredibly delicious Garlic Butter Shrimp dish. Buttery jumbo shrimp baked with garlic, lemon zest, fresh sage and MELT® organic butter spread. This dish can be made as dinner, appetizer or even finger food for the party.
Garlic Butter Shrimp
It’s not often (actually it’s pretty rare) that I use butter in cooking. Morning toast, pancakes, waffles, baked goods, yes, they need their butter. In cooking, on the other hand, I prefer using vegetable or olive oil as a healthier option. There are exceptions of course! One of those exceptions happens to be my favorite shrimp dish, Shrimp Scampi. Since that dish is made with a good amount of butter, I don’t make it too often.
This Garlic Sage Butter Shrimp is a variation of my favorite shrimp dish and it is heavenly! It’s also made with and great new ingredient that I learned about just recently.
This dish is made with MELT® organic butter spread, which is a healthier alternative to butter. It’s a luscious organic spread made from healthiest fruit- and plant-based organic oils like virgin coconut, flaxseed, hi-oleic sunflower, palm fruit, and canola for a much healthier butter alternative. It bakes, sizzles, drizzles, and melts just like butter, so it’s easily substituted in everyday cooking and baking. These spreads are also dairy free, soy free, trans-fat free, and gluten free. Most importantly, it’s available in Honey and Chocolate, which I can’t wait to try.
I absolutely loved substituting MELT in this dish. The whole favor pallet of this butter spread was perfect. It has a rich, nutty and subtly sweet flavor. This nuttiness and slight sweetness is absolutely perfect along side of garlic and fresh sage. These shrimp were finger-licking good!
Garlic Sage Butter Shrimp
Ingredients
- 1/2 lb jumbo shrimp or any size to your taste
- 4 Tbsp. MELT organic butter spread
- 2 large garlic cloves
- Zest from 1/4 lemon
- Juice from 1/4 lemon
- 6-7 fresh sage leaves
- Salt
- Shaved Parmesan cheese optional
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375.
- Rinse shrimp and take off the shell if necessary. Evenly spread them in a greased, oven-safe dish.
- In a small sauce pot, over medium heat, melt butter spread and add thinly sliced garlic, lemon zest, minced sage and salt. Stir a few times and pour over shrimp. Spread and coat evenly.
- Squeeze some lemon juice over shrimp and place them in the oven.
- Bake for 10-15 minutes, depending on the size of your shrimp. (Jumbo shrimp will take closer to 14-15 minutes.)
- Optional: Sprinkle some shaved Parmesan cheese as soon as you take shrimp out of the oven.
- Serve: with a side dish, as an appetizer or stick toothpicks in the jumbo shrimp and serve as finger-food at a party.
Recipe Notes
Recipe from Lyuba @ willcookforsmiles.com All images and content are copyright protected. Please do not use my images without prior permission. If you want to share this recipe, please simply link back to this post for the recipe. Thank you.
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Marisa Franca @ All Our Way says
Seafood is wonderful and we have it several times a week. Although the fish we’ve been eating has been from Publix instead of the Gulf — we’re hoping that changes soon. I would love to try the new spread. We also use butter – sparingly. I also use a lot of coconut oil. It is great for veggies but I love that butter taste – is it salted? I don’t like salted butter. Your photos make me want to grab a piece of bread and tie into that sauce.
lyuba says
If you want to find this butter while you’re in FL, it’s at WinnDixie. I know every state had them in different stores and FL has them in WinnDixie. I do like it and it will last me a while since I don’t use much butter.
It’s not salted!
Thank you, Marisa! 🙂
Sonali- The Foodie Physician says
Gorgeous as always! I love garlicky shrimp and MELT sounds like a great product. Thanks for sharing!
lyuba says
Thank you, thank you, dear!!
This shrimp was so good! 🙂
Tina says
I’ve never seen this before in our local stores, it looks nice.
lyuba says
You should definitely check out on their site to see which of your local stores carry it. I really like this spread 🙂