Quick + Easy Instant Pot Shrimp Scampi - Healthy Instant Pot Recipes (2024)

Quick + Easy Instant Pot Shrimp Scampi- Crazy good! Shrimp served in a lemony butter and garlic sauce with a touch of white wine. A restaurant quality meal made at home in a matter of minutes! {Low-carb, Keto and GF options}

Talk about easy! You can literally have this meal on the table in less than 15 minutes!

How to Make Quick + Easy Instant Pot Shrimp Scampi

1. Cook pasta ( al dente) according to package directions.
2. While pasta is cooking, Rinse shrimp and pat dry with paper towels. Season with salt and pepper to taste. Add olive oil and butter to Instant Pot and select the SAUTE function (low heat). When hot, add garlic and cook until fragrant. Add white wine, chicken stock and red pepper flakes (if using). Stir with a wooden spoon and make sure no bits of garlic are stuck to the bottom of the pot.
3. Add shrimp and cook on Manual/Pressure Cook for 1 minute on high pressure. Do a Quick Release (QR) to release the pressure.
4. Add cooked pasta to Instant Pot and stir to combine with shrimp. Squeeze the juice of one lemon (about 1 Tbsp) over pasta and shrimp. Stir in chopped parsley. Serve, garnish with grated Parmesan cheese if desired.

Recipe Notes:

Using Frozen Shrimp

This recipe works with fresh or frozen shrimp. Either variety should be cleaned and deveined. Shrimp with tails on or tails off is completely up to you.

If using frozen shrimp, you don’t need to thaw it, just add it according to recipe directions but increase the cook time by two minutes. You’ll cook the shrimp for 3 minutes instead of 1 minute.

Shrimp on top

The recipe calls for mixing the cooked pasta in with the shrimp and sauce in the Instant Pot. If you would prefer to serve the shrimp on top of the pasta (not mixed in with) use a slotted spoon and remove shrimp from the Instant Pot (reserving sauce in pot). Add pasta to sauce in the Instant Pot. Place pasta on a serving dish, top with shrimp and sprinkle with parsley and a squeeze of lemon.

Low-carb, Keto, GF friendly options

The shrimp portion of this recipe is perfect for those following a low-carb, Keto or Gluten-Free diet. I’ve included the nutritional info for just the shrimp portion of this recipe in the recipe below (as well as info for shrimp + pasta).

You can omit the pasta or sub in low-carb or gluten-free pasta. Shrimp scampi is also delicious served over zoodles, cauliflower rice or my latest obsession Kolhrabi linquine - linquine like noodles made from kohlrabi (a vegetable in the same species as broccoli and cauliflower) I found them at Whole Foods in the refrigerated produce section.

I highly recommend keeping a bag of frozen shrimp in the freezer and some dry pasta in the cupboard for those times when you have to come up with dinner on the fly. Quick + Easy Instant Pot Shrimp Scampi to the rescue!

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