Ingredients
Scale
- 3 tablespoons ghee
- 1/2 pound shrimp
- Salt
- Freshly ground black pepper
- 1 lemon, halved
- 2 garlic cloves, crushed
- 1/4 teaspoon red pepper flakes (optional)
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 425 F.
- Place the ghee in an 8-inch baking dish and place into the oven while it is preheating, just until the butter melts.
- Sprinkle the shrimp with salt and pepper.
- Slice one half of the lemon into thin slices and cut the other half into 2 wedges.
- Add garlic to butter in the baking dish. Spread shrimp in a single layer over bottom of baking dish. Top with the lemon slices. Sprinkle the top of the fish with the red pepper flakes (optional).
- Bake for 15 minutes, stirring halfway through.
- Remove shrimp from oven and squeeze the juice from the two lemon wedges over the dish. Serve hot.