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Garlic Butter Shrimp Linguine

Shrimp cooked fast in garlic butter and lemon, tossed with linguine and parsley.

Garlic Butter Shrimp Linguine, plated and ready to serve
Serves
4
Total time
28 min
Cost per serving (United States)
$9.33

Ingredients

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

Method

  1. Thaw the shrimp under cold running water, then pat very dry and peel if needed.

  2. Boil the linguine in well-salted water. Reserve a cup of pasta water before draining.

  3. Heat the olive oil and 2 tablespoons butter in a wide skillet over medium-high. Add the shrimp in one layer and cook 90 seconds per side until just pink. Remove.

  4. Lower the heat, add the remaining butter and the thinly sliced garlic, and cook 1 minute until fragrant but not browned. Add the red pepper flakes.

  5. Add the drained pasta and a big splash of pasta water, tossing until a glossy sauce forms.

  6. Return the shrimp, add the juice of both lemons and the chopped parsley, and toss once more.

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 9 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£34.50£8.639 of 9 ingredients
Australia$75.34$18.848 of 9 ingredients
Greece23,42 €5,86 €8 of 9 ingredients
Canada$108.55$27.148 of 9 ingredients
Germany63,21 €15,80 €8 of 9 ingredients
Austria€ 46,77€ 11,698 of 9 ingredients
United States$37.33$9.337 of 9 ingredients
New Zealand$82.19$20.557 of 9 ingredients
Egypt‏١٬٨١٣٫٥٧ ج.م.‏‏٤٥٣٫٣٩ ج.م.‏7 of 9 ingredients
Spain17,31 €4,33 €7 of 9 ingredients
Mexico$1,034.09*$258.526 of 9 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.

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