Lemony Shrimp With White Beans and Couscous

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Shrimp wins arsenic America’s favourite seafood successful polls twelvemonth aft year. You cognize those scenes successful the movie “Forrest Gump” wherever Pvt. Bubba Blue rambles done each the ways it tin beryllium prepared? I deliberation I’ve had them all. This 20-minute crockery ranks precocious connected my list. I could devour it erstwhile a week, lukewarm oregon arsenic acold leftovers.

It starts with a container of frozen, U.S. wild-caught shrimp, 1 of the astir versatile ingredients you tin person connected hand. Your shrimp volition astir apt travel with tails on, which you should propulsion close off, for easiness of eating.

You person lone a fewer things to chop, and successful a fewer minutes you make a cookware condiment of butter, ail and citrus foodstuff that flavors the shrimp. We similar adding crushed turmeric for the sunny colour and subtle spirit it brings, but you tin permission it out. We similar utilizing no-salt-added beans here, due to the fact that who needs the other sodium? But if you person the regular kind, they volition enactment fine. Just beryllium definite to sensation earlier adding much brackish to the finished dish.

Pearled couscous, which are tiny beads of toasted wheat pasta (as opposed to the small-grain kind), goes into that blessed jumble.

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Ingredients

  • 10 ounces plain pearled couscous (Israeli; spot headnote)
  • 1 3/4 cups boiling water
  • 2 cloves garlic
  • 4 scallions
  • 1 lb mean peeled and deveined shrimp, defrosted
  • One 14.5-ounce tin no-salt-added cannellini beans
  • 4 to 6 stems parsley (curly oregon flat-leaf)
  • 3 tablespoons unsalted butter
  • 1 lemon
  • 1 spoon kosher salt, oregon much arsenic needed
  • 1 spoon crushed turmeric (optional)
  • Freshly crushed achromatic pepper

Nutritional Facts

Per serving

  • Calories

    530

  • Fat

    11 g

  • Saturated Fat

    6 g

  • Carbohydrates

    72 g

  • Sodium

    450 mg

  • Cholesterol

    205 mg

  • Protein

    37 g

  • Fiber

    4 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

Adapted from "Dinner Made Simple: 35 Everyday Ingredients, 350 Easy Recipes," by the editors of Real Simple mag (Oxmoor House, 2016).

Tested by Bonnie S. Benwick.

Published February 27, 2018

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Updated March 16, 2026

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