Garlic Shrimp and Chickpeas
I made this last week for lunch. It's quick, healthy, and the chickpeas make this dish surprisingly filling. It's also really tasty and would be a great side or appetizer for a dinner party. I just so happened to have a half pound bag of frozen shrimp in the freezer as well (left over from shrimp scampi I'd make a few nights before). The ingredients shown below are for 4 servings, but if you're like us and there's only 2 of you, cut the ingredients in half. Enjoy!
- 2 150z. cans chickpeas, drained and rinsed
- 6 tablespoons extra- virgin olive oil
- Kosher Salt
- 1 3/4 pounds medium shrimp, peeled, deveined, tails intact (I used frozen shrimp already deveined and cooked to speed the process).
- 3 cloves garlic, minced
- 1 teaspoon finely grated lemon zest
- 1/2 teaspoon red pepper flakes
- 1/2 cup roughly chopped fresh parsley
- Lemon wedges, for serving
1. Position a rack in the upper third of the oven and preheat to 450 degrees. Toss the chickpeas with 1 tablespoon olive oil and 1/2 teaspoon salt in a large baking dish, then spread out in a single layer. Bake until golden, about 20 minutes.
2. Meanwhile, toss the shrimp with 4 tablespoons olive oil, the garlic, lemon zest, red pepper flakes, and 1 teaspoon salt in a medium bowl. Marinate 10 minutes.3. Remove the baking dish from the oven and scatter the shrimp over the chickpeas. Return to the oven and bake until the shrimp are pink, 5-8 minutes. (Since my shrimp were already cooked, I did 5 minutes to simply warm them up). Drizzle with the remaining 1 tablespoon olive oil and sprinkle with the parsley. Serve with lemon wedges.
(Recipe taken from April issue of Food Network Magazine)
Looks delicious - I love garlic :)
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ReplyDeleteOh and by the way I was making a dinner and the recipe called for 3 garlic cloves and I thought a whole garlic was called a clove so that meant three whole garlics ..... lets just say I learned a good lesson!! And Sean ate it only cause he loves me ... there was more garlic then meat in it!!!
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