Garlic Shrimp Recipe
Hawaii is known for its white sand beaches, tropical climate and fun water sports. But any food lover wil tell you that the real draw on Oahu is the fresh garlic shrimp, served at roadside shrimp trucks along the North Shore. Chef Jason Hill shows you how to make garlic shrimp scampi modeled after the famous shrimp shacks in Kahuku. At our favorite stop, Giovanni’s shrimp truck, in Kahuku, each plate includes 12 shrimp with two mounds of steamed sticky calrose rice and a lemon wedge. We hope you enjoy this — it’s almost a perfect replica of Giovanni’s shrimp. Mahalo! Hawaiian Shrimp Truck Scampi 10 shell-on U-15 (extra large) shrimp, deveined 1 head (10 cloves) garlic, peeled and roughly chopped 1 cup flour 2 tablespoons paprika 1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper (1 tablespoon for spicier tastes) 1/2 stick clarified butter (see our video recipe) 1/2 teaspoon salt 1/8 cup white wine 2 tablespoons regular butter To begin, rinse and thaw your large shrimp in cool running water. Lightly pat dry. In a wide tupperware dish, place the flour, paprika and cayenne pepper. Mix lightly with your hands and coat each piece of shrimp on both sides. Heat saute pan over high heat. Add clarified butter and garlic. Stir for 1 minute, then add all of the shrimp, which has been coated in the flour mixture. Saute 3 minutes on each side. After 3 minutes on the second side, add the 1/8 cup of white wine and 2 tablespoons butter. Saute, turning shrimp occasionally, until it reaches a caramel brown color …
Tags: A Recipes, Garlic, Recipe, Shrimp
can i use anything instead of wine?
@saminacmc
You can leave it out. You can also use some fresh lemon juice as a replacement.
I’m starvin
I made it today MY 18, 2010, My qife and kid enjoy eating it over hot rice… I only add oregano powder, onion and garlic powder some black pepper powder and I used rice wine instead of white and it turned out delicious… thanks a lot
@szchoedee You’re welcome! Thanks for taking the time to comment on the recipe! Cheers, Jason
Looks very good. I recommend baguettes and some aioli as well. I usually eat this around summertime.
Also those shrimps are called Tiger Prawns. Might be easier finding them under that name. Keep up the cooking shows, I quite enjoy them.
thanks ..i made these this evening , i didnt have any white wine but it turned out good !
thanks for posting this video!
@Lleanlleawrg
Thanks for recommending those additions and thanks for the compliment!
Cheers!
what is saute AND HOW DO I SAUTE?:s OK so I obviously don’t cook but, would like to start cooking and I hear this all the time I guess I can just google it
@greendiamond12 Sauteeing is basically cooking down your food in a pan with a little bit of oil, stirring quite often.
mouth watering! hahaha
So you leave on the shells which obviously adds flavor to the dish… but then you coat the shells and so… do you eat the shells? Because I could not do that. I either cook in shells without coating or shell and coat. Please help me understand your method. This dish looks great.
@nayocerp
Ha ha! Thanks!
@gcarped
Hello.
People like to suck the flavor on the shell before peeling it off.
The flour coating on the shell helps thicken the sauce.
Hope this helps.
that was fabulous!!,thanks for give your time here!!
@beachman41
Thanks for taking the time to comment!
i am so hungry right now
looks so damn good, has my mouth watering. can you tell me what the difference is between regular salt, sea salt, and kosher salt, or why it matters which one you use !
@lyricbrodie You can use any of them in a pinch. The kosher and sea salts are more coarse.
@lyricbrodie
Hello.
Table salt is a fine grained refined salt with additives that make it free flowing.
Kosher salt is a additive free course salt that cooks like to use because of it’s flavor and it is easy to pinch.
Sea salt is salt the comes from evaporated sea water and is usually course and more expensive.
Hope this helped! =]
@ChefTips thanks that helps a bunch !
i can taste it in my mouth!
That wouldn’t be enough for me 10 – 15 shrimps might just cut it for a sample. lol
yep that is the besgt shrimp ive tasted soo far. good old north shore everytime we travel around the island no matter what we doing we stop over there to eat. so ono!
@Cruz8r
Ha ha! No kidding!