Skip to content

Grill-Pan Lemon Garlic Shrimp with Couscous

Fast-seared garlicky shrimp piled onto lemony couscous with tomatoes and parsley.

Grill-Pan Lemon Garlic Shrimp with Couscous, plated and ready to serve
Serves
4
Total time
27 min
Cost per serving (United States)
$9.36

Ingredients

  • 1 1/2 lb frozen raw shrimp
  • 1 1/2 cup couscous
  • 5 clove garlic
  • 2 lemon
  • 4 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
  • 10 oz cherry tomatoes
  • 1/2 bunch fresh flat-leaf parsley
  • 1/2 tsp crushed red pepper flakes
  • 2 tsp kosher salt
  • 2 tbsp unsalted butter

Method

  1. Pour boiling water over the couscous per the package, cover 5 minutes, then fluff with the butter, half the lemon juice, and salt.

  2. Thaw the shrimp and pat dry. Toss with 2 tablespoons oil, minced garlic, red pepper flakes, and salt.

  3. Heat a grill pan over high and cook the shrimp in one layer, 2 minutes per side, until pink and marked.

  4. Halve the cherry tomatoes and toss into the couscous with chopped parsley and the remaining oil.

  5. Pile the shrimp over the couscous and squeeze the remaining lemon over the top.

What this costs, country by country

Each figure is the ingredients for the full recipe at prices read in that country’s own shops, in its own currency. Nothing here is converted from dollars.

The cost of this recipe in 11 countries, each in its own currency, with how many of the 10 ingredients we could price in each. Figures are not converted between currencies, so the rows cannot be ranked against each other.
CountryWhole recipePer servingPriced from
United Kingdom£40.32£10.0810 of 10 ingredients
Australia$82.89$20.729 of 10 ingredients
Canada$120.80$30.209 of 10 ingredients
Germany66,45 €16,61 €9 of 10 ingredients
Austria€ 52,58€ 13,159 of 10 ingredients
New Zealand$98.47$24.628 of 10 ingredients
Greece26,73 €6,68 €8 of 10 ingredients
Egypt‏١٬٩٧٥٫٣٨ ج.م.‏‏٤٩٣٫٨٥ ج.م.‏8 of 10 ingredients
Spain18,91 €4,73 €8 of 10 ingredients
United States$37.42$9.367 of 10 ingredients
Mexico$1,050.64*$262.666 of 10 ingredients

* We have read fewer than seven in ten of these ingredients in that country, so the total is a partial figure and the real one is higher.

Shopping somewhere we haven’t reached? See every price we hold and add what your shop charges.

The bigger number is usually the food that never gets cooked at all. Work out what your household throws away