These zucchini pancakes are in high demand! I’ve been “Mom” for years, and I’ve been making these. They are adored by my entire family. Sour cream should be added as a garnish.
| Prep Time: | 10 mins |
| Cook Time: | 10 mins |
| Total Time: | 20 mins |
| Servings: | 2 |
Ingredients
- 1 ½ cups fresh baby spinach
- 1 ½ teaspoons granulated garlic powder
- 20 frozen shrimp, thawed
- 1 teaspoon ground black pepper
- 1 tablespoon olive oil, or as needed
Instructions
- Place spinach in a large bowl; sprinkle with garlic powder and toss to coat.
- Place shrimp in a second large bowl; sprinkle with black pepper and toss to coat.
- Heat olive oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add shrimp; cook and stir in hot oil until bright pink on the outside and the meat is opaque, about 5 minutes. Add spinach; cook and stir until just wilted, about 1 minute.
- I thawed my shrimp for 20 to 30 minutes.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 152 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 3 g |
| Cholesterol | 152 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 1 g |
| Protein | 17 g |
| Saturated Fat | 1 g |
| Sodium | 194 mg |
| Sugars | 1 g |
| Fat | 8 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
Everyone hates a critic that alters the recipe as posted, so I’ll say I made this dish per the instructions the first time. Needed to be kicked-up a notch, so the next time I made it I sauteed FRESH garlic (3 cloves, chopped fine), added some red pepper flakes, then the shrimp and lastly the spinach. So 3.5 stars for the first time, 5 stars with the slightly altered recipe.
I halved the pepper because it was too much as it was and doubled the amount of spinach, and I’d say it was pretty perfect that way!
Easy peezy and delicious!
I have been cooking this for years with different variations. I agree with nana the dish needs a bit more umph and a cup and a half of spinach would cook down to 1/4 cup of spinach. But overall a very nice recipe.
Good recipe, but unless you are using tiny salad shrimp a cup and a half of spinach will yield almost nothing after cooking. I used an entire large bag of spinach with large shrimp
Recipe is easy but I altered it. I added half of a small sliced onion and three tablespoons of minced garlic. I seasoned shrimp with paprika and cajun season. I sautéed with olivevoil and two table spoons butter. I sprinkled the spinach once it was in the skillet with garlic powder. Once done I added a few drops of lemon juice to the skillet.
I added the garlic and freshly ground black pepper to the shrimp and sautéed in butter. After I took the shrimp out, I sautéed the spinach in the same pan. Took off heat and then added the shrimp back to the pan. I put the shrimp and spinach over brown rice. It was super quick and so delicious
Very tasty. A winnr….Yes, I did use the butter and sesame oil as suggested in other posts and seasoned the shrimp and cooked that before wilting the spinach over them.
Thank you all for making this family meal a winner! I used all your suggestions and it was awesome. Even my son who says he doesn’t like spinach loved it. I seasoned the shrimp with garlic powder and pepper. Sautéed in butter and olive oil with one chopped yellow onion. Added 3 cups of spinach (would use more next time), toasted sesame oil, and squeezed 1/4 lemon juice. Forgot to add some Parmesan cheese, but didn’t miss it. This was so good!
Loved this just the way it was. I did a batch just for myself for lunch today so I didn’t follow the exact seasoning measurements. I just winged it but it was so yummy and so simple! Love that it’s only 5 ingredients. Will be making this a lot for myself in the future. Will be one of my go-to lunch recipes for sure. Thanks so much for sharing this!
way too much spice
Good, easy recipe. I sautéed a small Vadelia onion, chopped, in butter and a dab of evoo; then pushed onion to the side before adding shrimp, seasoned with pepper, garlic and Old Bay. Very good seasoning combo!!! After sautéing the shrimp, I added 3 1/2 cups baby spinach, which turned out to be not nearly enough. Next time I’ll do at least 5 or 6 cups of spinach.
I love it light lunch taste good
I did change it a bit. I used equal parts olive oil & butter . I also seasoned the shrimp with garlic powder, pepper & a little Old Bay seasoning. I added a little basil while cooking & served over plain white rice.
Absolutely delicious. We love garlic so put it on both the shrimp and the spinach. Yum
This was fantastic. Do what the others said. Season the shrimp and use butter. If you have it, hit it with a splash of toasted sesame oil. I also grated some pecorino and mixed it with the shrimp. Cook a lot of spinach. With the spices left from cooking the shrimp, the butter and sesame oil, it’s delectable. The only complaint I got was “I could eat myself miserable with this dish”.
Good. Went lite on the pepper. used minced garlic. Just don’t allow the garlic to burn, toss lightly while cooking in the spinach . Perfect! jac
Very tasty
This was a really simple recipe. However, I did tweak it a little bit for more flavor. I added chopped white onions, minced garlic, shredded Parmesan cheese, a hint of sesame seed oil and parsley flakes. It was bursting with flavor!!! 🙂
I love this
I loved this recipe but I did change it a little, Soup Loving Nicole suggested using butter and seasoning the shrimp instead of the spinach which I did and I also added a few pieces of chicken breast and it was delicious!