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This shrimp scampy dish is great as finger food or served over pasta.

It takes only minutes to cook, so we need to get everything prepared and ready to go before we turn on the stove.

A complete ingredient and equipment list is at the end of this video.

Let's start with the garlic.

Peel and mince, four cloves, and set it aside.

For four to six servings of this shrimp, scampy,

we need two pounds of peeled extra large shrimp.

There are about 21 to 25 shrimp per pound.

You can buy it already peeled or peel it yourself. Check out my

blog to learn how to peel shrimp. Now pour into a glass measuring cup, one-fourth cup of dry white

wine. Add one-fourth cup of clam juice to the wine. Set that aside as well. Measure one-eighth

teaspoon of black pepper and one-fourth teaspoon of salt into a small dish.

Gweeze the juice from one lemon, then strain out the seeds.

Measure out 2 tablespoons and set that aside.

Chop 2 tablespoons of fresh parsley and set that aside too.

Finally, we need 4 tablespoons of cold, unsalted butter cut into four pieces.

Keep it in the fridge until we're ready to use it.

Okay, everything is ready. Time to start cooking.

Heat one tablespoon of olive oil in a Dutch oven over medium high heat for about a minute

or until the oil looks like

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