🍤 Lemon Garlic Shrimp Orzo

Ingredients

• 🍝3/4 cup (5.5 oz) orzo pasta
• 🦐9 oz (250 g) peeled shrimp
• 🧄3 cloves garlic
• 🍋1 lemon
• 🧈1 1/2 tbsp (20 g) butter
• 🫒1 tbsp olive oil
• 🥬2 1/2 cups (3 oz) fresh spinach
• 🧀1/4 cup grated (20 g) Parmesan cheese
• 🌿1/4 cup chopped fresh parsley
• 🧂to taste salt
• 🌿to taste black pepper

• Recipes with peeled shrimp
• Recipes with lemon
• Recipes with butter
• Recipes with fresh spinach
• Recipes with parmesan cheese
• Recipes with fresh parsley

How to make it, step by step

1. Cook the orzo in salted water according to the package, about 9 minutes. Drain, reserving a little cooking water.
2. Meanwhile, heat the oil and butter in a skillet and cook the sliced garlic for 1 minute.
3. Add the shrimp with salt and pepper and cook 2 to 3 minutes, until pink.
4. Stir in the orzo, spinach, lemon zest and juice and a splash of the cooking water. Toss for 1 minute.
5. Finish with the Parmesan and chopped parsley and serve.