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Lemon Butter Shrimp Recipe

You'll Want to Mop Up Every Last Drop of This Shrimp Dish's Sauce

Say what you will about Paula Deen, but the woman knows her way around a stick of butter — or rather, sticks of butter. In this recipe of hers, shrimp is bathed in a luxurious hot-sauce-spiked lemon butter sauce. The shrimp bakes up perfectly snappy, juicy, and tender, and the sauce will make you want to lick your plate. (Don't do that — mop it up with sliced baguette.)

The one issue lies in the ludicrous volume of butter in Paula's original recipe: a whopping four sticks of butter to five pounds of shrimp. Now, I'm sure that's delicious, and I'm not exactly butter-phobic, but I just couldn't. Instead, this modified take scales the ratio back by about half to one stick of butter for two pounds of shrimp. Still lush and decadent, but a little bit less heart-attack-inducing.

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