Title: Baked Lemon Shrimp with Garlic
Categories: Seafood
Yield: 6 Servings

2	lb	Large shrimp (abt 30), peeled
1	c	Butter (2 sticks)
1 1/2	ts	Salt or to taste
1	tb	Minced garlic or to taste
1/2	c	Flat-leaf parsley leaves washed, spun dry finely chopped
2	tb	Lemon zest (from 2 large lemons)
2	tb	Lemon juice or to taste
		Cooked rice
		Lemon wedges

Preheat oven to 450 F.

In a flameproof baking dish large enough to hold shrimp in one layer melt butter with salt over moderately low heat. Stir in garlic and half of parsley. Add shrimp and bake 5 min. Turn shrimp and sprinkle with remaining parsley, lemon zest, and lemon juice. Bake shrimp until just cooked through, 5-10 min more. Serve with rice and lemon wedges.

Gourmet March 1996

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