Ina Garten is a cook I trust wholeheartedly in the kitchen. Her rustic and approachable recipes are ones you can always rely on and usually work as a comforting meal for your family or as something you can serve to company without any worry of it being ill-received. Her Baked Shrimp Scampi is precisely what I’m talking about. It’s an easy-to-prepare meal that’s still mighty impressive… and mighty delicious too.

Prepping shrimp aside, this is a dish that won’t take you more than fifteen minutes to make. It’s so simple! You’re just tossing shrimp with olive oil, wine, salt, and pepper and arranging them in a baking dish…

… before topping them with a mixture of garlic, shallots, parsley, rosemary, red pepper flake, lemon, egg yolks, and panko breadcrumbs that have been mashed into a paste with butter. It all bakes for just about ten minutes and the butter melts and melds with the lemon, garlic, herbs and spices into a succulent and flavorful sauce.

That sauce is perfect to spoon over pasta, mashed potatoes, or rice, but I love that you can also just serve the shrimp as-is alongside some vegetables for a quick and impressive dinner.

It’s one of those dishes where the level of deliciousness defies how simple it is to make. It’s hard to believe just how easy this is, but it’s a good reminder that a dish befitting a special occasion doesn’t always have to be complicated!