I have a quick and easy shrimp recipe for you today that can be used as an appetizer, a snack, or an entree. If you are eating this shrimp for dinner a Caesar salad or a tossed salad with Italian dressing would go great with these, but any vegetables would really.
Will your kids eat shrimp?
I don’t remember eating shrimp much as a kid. Every once in a while we would eat it cold with cocktail sauce, but I don’t recall us cooking shrimp. Maybe my mom thought we wouldn’t eat it. Maybe my dad didn’t like it. I am not sure, but I do know that in the Hughes house my kids aren’t wild about shrimp. I still make it from time to time and ask my kids to “just take one bite”, thinking they might acquire a taste for it over time or like it if it were cooked differently. Our kids hear that phrase a lot: “Just try one bite”, or sometimes I say, “You don’t have to love it, but you do have to try it.” When it comes to shrimp I think it might be a texture thing, so I don’t push it too much.
How about you? Are you getting your weekly shrimp?
I decided to buy some shrimp the other day because it was on a great sale (it almost always is around New Years and around Valentine’s day). Besides, I was already wanting to sneak more seafood into my diet. Most people already know this, but shrimp is really healthy for you and very good to include in your diet. I was recently reading a Meal Planning 101 booklet from Weight Watchers that suggested eating seafood once or twice a week.
With recipes like this one, I think that maybe I COULD eat shrimp once a week. Try it and tell us what YOU think by rating the recipe at the bottom of the post or dropping us a comment! I would love to hear from you!
Here is what you need:
1-1/2 lb. uncooked shrimp
3 Tbsp. lemon juice, divided
6 cloves garlic
3 Tbsp. Parmesan cheese, grated
1 tbsp. Mrs. Dash Lemon Pepper seasoning
Here is what you do:
Preheat grill pan to medium high heat.
Mix 2 tbsp. lemon juice and garlic together. Mix in shrimp and toss to coat.
Place shrimp on the grill and pour any remaining lemon juice and garlic on top of the shrimp, leaving the extra 1 Tbsp. of lemon juice off to the side. Grill shrimp 4-5 minutes on one side.
Flip shrimp, sprinkle with the lemon pepper seasoning. Allow to cook another 4-5 minutes, or until fully cooked.
Once cooked sprinkle Parmesan cheese generously over the top of the shrimp and splash a little lemon juice over the top.
Serve warm.
Makes 4 servings.
One serving is 6 ounces of shrimp.
One serving is 2 Green, 1 Blue, and 1 Purple Points.
- 1-1/2 lb. uncooked shrimp
- 3 Tbsp. lemon juice, divided
- 6 cloves garlic
- 3 Tbsp. grated Parmesan cheese
- 1 tbsp. Mrs. Dash Lemon Pepper seasoning
- Preheat grill pan to medium high heat.
- Mix 2 tbsp. lemon juice and garlic together. Mix in shrimp and toss to coat.
- Place shrimp on the grill and pour any remaining lemon juice and garlic on top of the shrimp, leaving the extra 1 Tbsp. of lemon juice off to the side. Grill shrimp 4-5 minutes on one side.
- Flip shrimp, sprinkle with the lemon pepper seasoning. Allow to cook another 4-5 minutes, or until fully cooked.
- Once cooked sprinkle Parmesan cheese generously over the top of the shrimp and splash a little lemon juice over the top.
- Serve warm.
*SmartPoints® calculated by Meal Planning Mommies; Not endorsed by Weight Watchers International, Inc. All recipe ingredients except optional items included in determining nutritional estimates. SmartPoints® values calculated WITHOUT Weight Watchers Zero Points fruits and vegetables using the WW Recipe Builder.
Amy @ The Quiet Homemaker says
Oh my gosh, this looks so good! I love shrimp, but the little guy does not, so I do not really cook it. 🙁
Michelle Schultz says
This sounds delicious! I ran it through the Weight Watchers recipe builder and I got 2 smart points per serving. Is there a particular brand of shrimp that you use?
Thank you for sharing. I can’t wait to try this!
Alisha Hughes says
Awesome Michelle! Thanks so much for pointing that out. I double checked and it looks like I entered the shrimp in my recipe builder as “cooked shrimp”, but it should have been “raw”, and it does a difference… enough to lower it to just 2 WW SP per serving. How fantastic! I just fell in love with this recipe all over again. 😉
Cyndi M says
How much Parmesan cheese?
Alisha Hughes says
3 tablespoons. Thanks Cyndi. Appreciate you! 🙂
Anna says
I plan on making garlic shrimp tonight.