welcome friends it is Saturday morning so we're going to do another one of our
most watched YouTube recipe video videos and this week I think I'd like to make
shrimp scampi so put that in and we will filter by viewcount interesting so I've
noticed over the last couple of weeks that search in general on YouTube has
been completely screwed up so the top video is bone Appetit
but of course they only have 1 million views Laura in the kitchen has 1.3
million views she's in number two spot and if you scroll down a little bit
you'll see that Brian Talbot has 1.5 million views but he's cooking it with
linguine and I don't want linguini I just watch Tripp scampi so let's check
out Laura Vitale and see what she's got to say
okay the video recipe looks straightforward very few ingredients
very few ingredients really easy to put together
so let's give Laura's recipe a try and see what happens with tablespoon of
olive oil in there so this is one of those recipes where there's nowhere to
hide very few ingredients very simple ingredients and they all have to come
together to give you flavor and mouthfeel so we'll see how this works
out Laura says to start out high heat in a nonstick skillet well bring that oil
up to temperature and then in goes some garlic and we want to saute that garlic
until it just gets a little bit of color and flavors the oil but you want to be
careful because with high heat you can go from flavorful to burnt really
quickly so now in goes the line
it's gonna spit it's gonna pop its gonna make a mess of your stovetop but that's
what you want you want this wine to bubble down and concentrate the flavor
of the wine the olive oil and the garlic this is the base for the sauce okay in
go the shrimp and I've removed the tails from the shrimp I can't stand getting
shrimp on my plate and then having that little tail and trying to pull the tail
off I can't do it so these go in just until they turn pink you don't want to
overcook them because they will get rubbery I'm not sure why she specifies a
nonstick pan I probably would have chosen stainless steel or one of the
other pans in our arsenal but whatever doing it the way it's said so in goes
some salt and pepper
now squeeze in some lemon just catch the seeds with your fingers one or two might
get through be okay
smells absolutely wonderful so give this a little bit of a stir now we want to
stir in cold butter and this cold butter is going to really bring that sauce
together give an amazing flavor and mouthfeel so one Pat at a time and just
a little bit of parsley looking good looking real good
hey Jules the number one most watched shrimp scampi recipe on the interwebs
well on YouTube anyway okay I'm gonna go for the dip is immediate
yeah I mean the dips where it's at love the dip yeah that's got a very creamy
lemony kind of yeah feel to it it's good sauce is amazing sauce is amazing oh
yeah shrimp scampi is one of those crazy
things though I mean it's essentially it's essentially calling a dish beef
pork or chicken turkey how about tuna fish well no that's
scampi is actually like a lobster okay um and when the Italians immigrated they
couldn't get it here so they started cooking shrimp in the same fashion
okay and so there's a huge variation in the recipes because people who emigrated
from different parts of Italy had a different way of cooking scampi so
there's like everything right yeah everybody's family does it differently
so there's a lot of variations on this recipe and there's a lot of variations
within the same style and discussion of whether you poach the shrimp in the
sauce or whether you fry the shrimp and then add them to the sauce okay so you
and I are doing bread in it and is there a so you serve it like this the same way
that you would serve mussels okay as an appetizer dip your bread eat the shrimp
or you could cook linguine and put the linguine yeah and put it all together
sauce um I think this is it's tasty yeah you can see why so many people
watch it super simple to make - very few ingredients very few steps there's
something to be said yeah about simplicity yes simplicity so give this
somewhere a try thanks for stopping by enjoy it see you again soon
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