This Seafood and Crab Lemon Scampi is addicting if you are a seafood lover.
When I am in the mood for seafood, this is my go-to recipe.
I just love the simplicity and it's full of flavor and so delicious.
This seafood pasta is the best ever and I am a huge fan of this dish.
Our family enjoys this dish often on Christmas Eve and add the traditional 7 fishes for the holiday season.
We loved it so much we now enjoy it often all year long.
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Calling All Seafood Lovers!
This is an easy seafood lover's dream meal.
This is a lemony sauce with a butter garlic flavor that is the perfect pairing with seafood to pour over any pasta.
I love the ease of this recipe and how fast this comes together for any weeknight dinner.
Delicious to eat and so pretty to serve.
My baked haddock with shrimp and zucchini is another favorite of mine.
Ingredients You Will Need:
- flounder fillets or other white fish like cod, haddock, sea bass or halibut
- cleaned and deveined shrimp with tails off
- crab meat fresh or canned, lobster or scallops or all of them
- lemon sliced
- white wine
- butter
- chicken broth
- minced garlic
- fresh parsley
- salt and pepper to taste
- olive oil
- Optional: red pepper flakes to taste, 10 ounces of chopped spinach
- Other fish suggestions: mussels, unbreaded calamari rings, clams, snook, redfish,
Any Seafood Can Be Used!
- Clams
- Mahi Mahi
- Grouper
- Salmon
- Cod
- Shrimp
- Calamari
- Mussels
- Crab legs
- Lobster
Options and Additions
- fresh spinach leaves
- boiled escarole
- boiled white or brown rice instead of pasta
- zucchini noodles
- cauliflower rice
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Lemon Grilled Mahi Mahi
Tips
- Don't overcook the seafood you're using
- use only fresh ingredients for best results
- for spicy add some hot sauce to taste or more cayenne pepper
- for those allergic to seafood use sauteed chicken breast
- for a low-fat version use all chicken broth, not wine
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Seafood Lovers!
If you love seafood this Seafood and Crab Lemon Scampi is the best ever and so easy to make.
You can add whatever you love in it and the sauce is what makes this dish spectacular.
My family loves this and asks for it often especially as part of our 7 Fishes tradition on Christmas Eve.
Yield: 6

Seafood and Crab Lemon Scampi
A delicious medley of seafood on top of pasta with a lemon wine sauce. If you love a thicker sauce just add some thicker to it like flour or cornstarch at the end. We love this dish just the way it is.
prep time: 15 Mcook time: 16 Mtotal time: 31 M
ingredients:
- 1 lb flounder fillets or other fish like cod, haddock, sea bass, salmon or halibut cut up in small pieces
- 1 lb cleaned and deveined shrimp with tails off
- 1 lb crab meat fresh or canned, lobster or scallops or all of them
- 1 lemon sliced
- 1/4 cup white wine
- 3 tablespoons butter
- 1 16 ounces or more of can chicken broth
- 1 tablespoon minced garlic
- 1 teaspoon granulated garlic
- 1 teaspoon dill weed
- 2 tablespoons chopped fresh parsley
- salt and pepper to taste
- olive oil
- Optional: red pepper flakes to taste, 10 ounces of chopped spinach
- Other fish suggestions: mussels, unbreaded calamari rings, clams, snook, redfish,
- Pasta of choice boiled to package instructions and drained we use either linguine or angel hair
instructions:
How to cook Seafood and Crab Lemon Scampi
- In a large saucepan add the garlic and 3 tablespoons olive oil and saute for 1 minute.
- Add the chicken broth use more if needed, butter, wine, and parsley bring to a boil.
- Add all the fish and simmer until tender and shrimp is pink around 4 minutes.
- For a thicket clingy style sauce, add 3 tablespoons of cornstarch to some water and add at the end to thicken.
- Scoop and pour over your favorite pasta.
Calories
325
325
Fat (grams)
12
12
Sat. Fat (grams)
9
9
Carbs (grams)
8
8
Sugar (grams)
6
6
Protein (grams)
18
18
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Disclosure: This recipe was originally shared in 2015. It was edited and re-published in 2020.
Now this would be a real treat! I love the depth of flavor this must have!!!
ReplyDeleteThis looks like such a great idea for a healthy quick dinner. Delicious!
ReplyDeleteThis sounds delicious! I’m a huge seafood lover. Can’t wait to make this!
ReplyDeleteThis is a great idea, even for picky eaters! It is really impressive. Looks very tasty. Yum. Thank you.
ReplyDeleteThis is a meal my whole family would love! Adding it to my menu for the week!
ReplyDeleteSounds so flavourful and vibrant with the lemon. I'd definitely keep the spinach in!
ReplyDeleteI love how you can customize this dish and switch it up to what you have on hand too. Perfect!
ReplyDeleteYum! I always enjoy making shrimp scampi, but hadn't tried adding crab meat as well. Great recipe!
ReplyDeleteIs good food and this looks like one of the BEST! I bet those flavors are amazing!
ReplyDeleteLove that you can use anything. I often buy the seafood packs just to have on hand. This would be a great option.
ReplyDeleteThis sounds refreshing and delicious. I love lemon, seafood, and pasta together, and the greens balance the lemon flavor I am sure.
ReplyDeleteThat sauce sounds incredible,in fact the entire dish does! I would love to try it with some fresh bay scallops around the holidays,yum!
ReplyDeleteAny kind of seafood and lemon is a combination you can't beat. We do love our seafood and have it several times a week. We'll have to try out your recipe -- and we do like using the thinner pasta like you.
ReplyDeleteSeafood and lemon - my favorite combination. I love what lemon does to fish. I have not had crab in a long time and this now makes me wanna buy some.
ReplyDeleteI absolutely love seafood scampi! This dish looks amazing, I'll have to give it a try. I love a good lemon sauce!
ReplyDeleteAre garlic granules the same as garlic powder?
ReplyDeleteLooking forward to making this!
The difference in these forms is merely texture, garlic powder having a flour-like consistency and granulated garlic being coarser, like fine cornmeal.
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