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Sizzling Garlic Prawns with Hot Pepper and Amontillado Sherry

Sizzling Garlic Prawns with Hot Pepper and Amontillado Sherry

Serves 6

Ingredients

3 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
6 cloves garlic, thinly sliced
Pinch crushed red pepper flakes
1 1/4 pounds shrimp, peeled and deveined
1/2 teaspoon pimenton (optional)
1/3 cup dry sherry, Amontillado, dry Oloroso or fino
Salt and freshly ground black pepper
1/2 tablespoon fresh chopped flat leaf parsley

Instructions

Heat the olive oil in a large frying pan over medium high heat. Add the garlic and crushed red pepper and cook for 15 seconds. Add the shrimp and pimenton, and cook until the shrimp curls and turns pink, 3 minutes. Add the sherry and continue to cook until the sherry reduces by half, 1 minute. Season to taste with salt and pepper. Place in a serving dish and serve immediately garnished with parsley.