Garlicky Shrimp with Pancetta & Olive Oil

Recipe by: Alice September 9, 2019 Seafood

Description

Soak up piece of crusty bread to all that mouth-watering shrimp dish.

Ingredients

3 ounces chopped pancetta
1/2 cup extra-virgin olive oil
6 garlic cloves, minced
6 whole dried red chili peppers
1/4 cup minced flat-leaf parsley
2 pounds shelled and deveined medium shrimp
Crusty bread, for serving

Directions

1. In a skillet over medium heat, cook pancetta until well browned. Remove pancetta from pan and set aside.

2. Add the olive oil to the pancetta fat in your skillet. Cook the garlic, dried red chili peppers and parsley in the oil mixture for about 10 seconds. Add the shrimp and cook until pink, about 3 min, stirring the shrimp often. Remove shrimp from pan and toss with pancetta.

Serving suggestions: serve this garlicky shrimp with pancettal with a side bowl of the pancetta olive oil juices used in cooking the shrimp with a crusty bread for dipping. A perfect accompaniment to this shrimp was oven roasted grape tomatoes, simply seasoned with salt and pepper and roasted in the oven until the skins started to burst open.

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