15 Minute Cilantro Lime Shrimp
Easy cilantro lime shrimp ready in 15 minutes! Jumbo shrimp cooked in a zesty cilantro lime sauce. Serve it cold, with pasta, or in lettuce wraps for quick meal! Even better than Costco cilantro lime shrimp!
- Prep time
- 10 min
- Cook time
- 5 min
- Yield
- 4 servings
- Difficulty
- MEDIUM
Ingredients
Quantities are shown as originally provided.
- 1 lb jumbo shrimp (peeled and deveined)
- 1 Tablespoon avocado oil (for cooking)
- 1 bunch cilantro (about 1 ½ to 2 cups including stems)
- ¼ medium onion (about ⅓ cup)
- 4 cloves garlic
- ¼ cup olive oil
- ½ juice and zest of half a large lime (add more depending on taste)
- salt to taste
- pinch of red pepper flakes (optional for spice)
- 1 large jalapeno, deseeded (optional for spice)
- a handful of any other herbs - basil, parsley, scallions, chives, etc (add any other herbs you have on hand, about ¼ to ⅓ cup)
Instructions
- 1
Make the Cilantro Lime Sauce
- 2
Leaving out the olive oil, add the remaining ingredients for the cilantro lime sauce into a food processor and pulse several times until it's finely chopped. Next, slowly drizzle in the olive oil while the motor is running to combine the mixture into a sauce. Set aside.
- 3
Cook the shrimp
- 4
Heat a pan to medium high heat and add the cooking oil. Once the pan is hot, add the shrimp to the pan and cook until the shrimp begin to turn pink, about 1 to 1½ minutes. Add the desired amount of the cilantro lime sauce to the pan, and saute it together until the shrimp is fully cooked, about another minute or two.
- 5
Serve immediately with extra sauce and lime wedges on the side.