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Creamy shrimp sauce

Creamy Garlic Sauce for Shrimp

It brings out the flavor of shrimp cooked any way you like. A thick, gorgeously fragrant cream-based sauce. Just dip a sweet shrimp into it and its flavor opens up in a whole new way — the slightly spicy, garlicky sauce is a perfect contrast to these shellfish.

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Composition / ingredients

Servings:

Butter

Garlic

White wine (dry)

Heavy cream

250

Salt

Translation table of volumetric measures

Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe

By weight of the composition:

Proteins 5 % 2 g

Fats 86 % 36 g

Carbohydrates 10 % 4 g

354 kcal

GI: 100 / 0 / 0

Cooking method

Cooking time: 20 min

Step 1:

You'll need a small saucepan for this. Melt the butter in it until liquid. It can start out at room temperature or straight from the fridge — soft butter only saves you about half a minute.
Step 2:

Peel the garlic cloves and chop them finely (I find a large sharp knife easiest). Add the garlic to the butter and cook for a couple of minutes until golden. Stir constantly and watch the color — garlic's high sugar content means it can scorch very fast.
Step 3:

Now pour in the dry white wine. Stir the sauce base and simmer for five to seven minutes. In cooking, only dry wine is used for sauces — the semi-sweet kind so many people love just won't work here.
Step 4:

Cook the sauce down until the wine has almost completely evaporated — only a little should be left in the pan.
Step 5:

Pour in the heavy cream and salt the shrimp sauce to taste. Let it gently simmer (uncovered) over low heat for about ten minutes, until the cream thickens. As soon as it does, take it off the heat — it's ready to serve.

This rich, gently spiced, thick sauce, with its faint note of white wine, is great because it suits boiled shrimp, grilled shrimp, and butter-fried shrimp in a crisp coating alike. Thanks to the long simmer, the alcohol has time to cook off completely, so there's nothing to worry about there. And with its all-natural ingredients, this sauce easily outshines any store-bought shrimp sauce. As you can see, it's all upside — and it comes together pretty quickly. Enjoy!