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.

Remove shrimp immediately and serve with two mounds of sticky steamed calrose rice and a lemon wedge, spooning extra garlic butter sauce over the rice and shrimp. Add extra salt and cayenne pepper to taste if desired.

Makes 2 servings of 5 jumbo shrimp each.

Chef's Note: You leave the shell on only during the cooking process. This keeps the shrimp tender and moist. Afterward, you peel and eat them, topped with the buttery garlic sauce and sticky rice.

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[wcm0782]

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[ChefTips]

Thank you so much!

[wileysboyz]

OMG! Thank you sooo much I LOVED Giovanni's! Yum.  I will be trying this over the weekend!! I will let you know how it turns out.

[ChefTips]

Please let us know how it turned out for you! I hope you enjoy and thanks for commenting!

Cheers!

[SMDOriginals]

I used to live in Oahu and we had one of that roadside shrimp trucks by my house we'd go to all the time. I've moved since but I miss those shrimp dishes a lot. Can't wait to try this one out. :)

[ChefTips]

Hope it meets your expectations.  Thanks for commenting! :)

[daniel chatmon]

Luckily I live in Hawaii so I can go to northshore and get some shrimp any time I want

[OprisTudor]

Dude...u ROCK!!! seriously, I've been browsing a truck load of recipies...yours are the only ones that actually turn out perfectly!!!

[MsOutspokenOutcast]

Made this tonight with my bf. I substituted white wine with sake and it was so awesome yet so simple.

[Ady S]

thank you chef

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[mas360]

Would it be better to peel the shells off shrimps before cooking it? that way the garlic and sauce would get absorbed more into the meat.

[Tony Nelson]

If you want to a killer Garlic Shrimp, click on my name and go to my channel and the recipe is on there under Asian-Cajun Crawfish boil. Even though it says crawfish it is awesome on shrimp as well. This is a great video on how to make and prepare Asian Cajun Crawfish

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[MegaChatcha]

wow look yummy !make me hungry now .thank you so much.

[AccentFlavor]

These shrimps are making us hungry. YUM!

[BandBullets]

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[wileysboyz]

Hi Chef, I tried the recipe. It was good,

but it did not match up to Giovanni's recipe. I doubled the recipe. The sauce was more like a gravy. I think next time I will try your recipe without the flour.