Drunken Shrimp

Ingredients

• 48 jumbo peeled, deveined shrimp
• 12 oz beer (recommended: Budweiser)
• 1 tbsp salt
• 1 tbsp freshly-ground black pepper
• ¼ cup unsalted butter, divided

Steps

1. Melt butter in a large pot over medium heat. Add shrimp and cook until slightly undercooked. Quickly place shrimp in ice water and drain. Set aside.
2. Season shrimp with salt and pepper. Deglaze pot with beer and add shrimp. Bring to a simmer over medium low heat.
3. Once beer simmers, lower heat to low and cook 5 minutes.
4. Stir in butter 1 tbsp at a time and serve warm.

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Adapted from “Drunken Shrimp” in the Wikibooks Cookbook by its contributors, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Reformatted for this site; this page's recipe text is shared under the same license.