Baked Shrimp with Feta

For a quick dinner in, nothing beats this recipe. It comes together in almost no time, you use minimal ingredients and the taste is really fresh and simple. Plus, in the summer you can sub fresh tomatoes for the canned variety and the taste is completely different. It's lighter and has less sodium, fat and calories (I imagine) than using tomatoes from a can.

Baked Shrimp with Feta

1 tablespoon olive oil
3/4 teaspoon dried oregano
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon crushed red pepper
1 lb. med. shrimp, peeled and deveined
3 garlic cloves, minced
Cooking Spray
1/2 cup dry white wine
3 cups diced plum tomatoes
3/4 cup finely crumbled feta
4 cup hot cooked angel hair pasta
1/4 cup minced fresh parsley


Preheat oven to 350. Heat oil in large non-stick skillet over medium high heat. Add oregano through garlic. Saute 3 min. Spoon shrimp mixture into 11x7 baking dish-coating w/ cooking spray. Add wine to skillet-cook until reduced to 1/4 cup. Stir in tomatoes and pour over shrimp. Sprinkle w/ cheese and bake 10 min. Serve over angel hair pasta and sprinkle w/ parsley.

This is an easy dish with not many steps. Plus, once you get out the white wine for deglazing you may as well pour some for yourself. I add more feta than what it calls for because I love that stuff. Also, I eyeball the shrimp and spices (are you noticing a theme here with all of my recipes?). It seriously only takes a max of ten minutes to get this from the pan to the oven. While the shrimp mixture is in the oven, you boil the pasta and drain it just as the shrimp is ready.

Going into the oven

While the shrimp mixture bakes, it creates this delicious reduction in the bottom of the dish that really adds flavor to the pasta, because by itself it can be a little bland. A little more wine and cheese and tomatoes can easily fix that.

All plated up!

The husband is a big proponent of this recipe and again, it is really fast to put together. I almost always have the items on hand that it takes to make it and it's a good, light dish for the summer.