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A good dinner last night--thought I'd share
Hey ladies--here's my post of the day. Last night I made a pretty good dinner and it seemed pretty easy.
It's a shrimp scampi-esque meal with whole wheat orzo
Basically, I cooked the orzo as directed on the package. when it was nearly done, I started my shrimp concoction. First, I caramelized a small onion with a tiny bit of butter and olive oil and 1 minced garlic clove.
Then I took my pound of shrimp, pulled the tails off and threw them in the pan with a little more butter and olive oil (into the same pan with my onions and garlic). Salt and pepper the shrimp, then I took 1/2 a large orange and squeezed it over the shrimp and onions.
While that was simmering, I cut up a tomato into small "bits" and threw that in the orzo, which I had drained and was sitting in the original pot by now. I kept the lid on the orzo pot so that the tomatoes would sort of cook with the orzo a little bit.
Once the shrimp was done, I put the shrimp over the orzo/tomato mix and then pulled the onions out of the orange juice. The flavors were INCREDIBLE together. And it's pretty healthy. I didn't even use a tablespoon of butter and I kept the cooking temps low so that I could use olive oil.
I had done a similar recipe to this that was from Cooking Light, but it used the more common shrimp/lemon combo and no onion. For this recipe I did also sautee a little mushroom for DH with the onion and put it with the orzo before cooking the shrimp. He enjoyed that little addition as well (I dislike mushroom).
Happy cooking!
Re: A good dinner last night--thought I'd share