This easy and healthy dinner recipe is ready in only 20 minutes. Garlic Lime Shrimp and Rice Bowl uses a simple garlic lemon-lime marinade, basmati or white rice and sauteed garlic, all mixed together in a tasty bowl. Super simple yet super flavorful!
These garlic lime shrimp and rice bowls are light on calories and big on flavor! This recipe is prepped in only 5 minutes and cooks in only 15 so you'll have dinner ready in just 20 minutes.
Garlic lime shrimp and rice bowls are a perfectly easy dinner recipe made with simple, clean ingredients for a wholesome healthy meal!
Reasons why you'll love this garlic lime shrimp and rice bowl:
- there's little prep and little clean up
- it's ready to eat in 20 minutes!
- chopping broccoli is the hardest part!
- it's made with just 1 pot and 1 pan
- it's big on flavor
- it's family-friendly
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Ingredients
To make garlic lime shrimp and rice, you need:
- basmati rice (or other rice)
- broccoli chopped into small pieces
- peeled and deveined shrimp, fresh or frozen
- olive oil
- butter
- minced garlic
- lime and lemon juice
- salt
Tips
- Don't marinate the shrimp for more than 30 minutes. The acid in the lemon and lime juice will begin to breakdown the shrimp if you marinate it any longer than that. I've written this recipe to marinate the shrimp only for the time it takes to saute the broccoli. But you could marinate it for a little longer if you'd like.
- Always remember to boil the extra marinade for 2 minutes before pouring over the rice bowls, since it will have had the raw shrimp in it.
- Cover the water for the rice as you bring it to a boil so it takes less time.
- While you can use any rice, I find basmati is the best because it takes half the time as traditional white rice, is not sticky, and smells amazing. Basmati is the longest grain rice so it lengthens as it cooks and keeps a light and fluffy texture.
- Use a bag of frozen broccoli florets or steamable broccoli. If using steamable broccoli, cook while the rice cooks and then follow the recipe as written, but saute it for just 2 minutes to crisp it up a bit.
- Instead of using part lime and part lemon juice for the marinade, use all lime juice or all lemon juice.
- If you aren't serving this to kids, a dash of red pepper flakes would be delicious!
To make these garlic lime shrimp bowls as efficiently as possible, start by boiling the water for the rice. As you wait for the water to boil, mix the marinade ingredients and marinade the shrimp. Then chop the broccoli.
Step-By-Step Directions
Follow these simple steps and you'll have these shrimp and rice bowls on the table in 20 minutes.
- In a large pot, bring water to a boil. Add basmati rice, cover, and simmer for 12 minutes (or for as long as the package indicates).
- While rice is cooking, combine marinade ingredients and marinade shrimp while sauteing the broccoli.
- Melt butter in a large pan, add broccoli and saute for 5 minutes, flipping occasionally.
- Remove broccoli from the pan and add the shrimp. Cook 2 minutes on each side. Pour in extra marinade and simmer for 2 minutes.
- Serve shrimp, broccoli, and extra marinade over rice.
Enjoy!
Recipe
Garlic Lime Shrimp and Rice Bowl
Ingredients
- 1 ½ cups uncooked basmati rice
- 1 pound peeled and deveined shrimp
- ½ head broccoli, chopped
- 4 tablespoon butter
For Lime Marinade
- ⅓ cup olive oil
- ¼ cup lime juice
- ⅛ cup lemon juice
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 3 minced garlic cloves
Instructions
- In a large pot, bring 3 cups of water to a boil. Add basmati rice, cover, and simmer for 12 minutes.
- While rice is cooking, combine marinade ingredients and marinade shrimp on the counter while broccoli is sauteed.
- Melt butter in a large pan over medium-high heat. Add broccoli and saute for 5 minutes, flipping occasionally. Remove from pan.
- Add marinated shrimp to pan and cook 2 minutes on each side. Pour on extra marinade and simmer for 2 minutes.
- Serve shrimp, broccoli, and extra marinade over rice.
Nutrition
How to Store
Shrimp does not keep well for long in the fridge. You'll want to eat it within a day or so. The rice and broccoli keep longer, for up to 1 week. If you have extra rice (which we always seem to have!), use it for other recipes that require cooked rice.
Leftover rice is used in this Instant Pot stuffed pepper soup. A fried rice or meal prepping would also be great
I hope you enjoy this delicious garlic lime shrimp and rice bowl!
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