scampi

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Italian restaurants use shrimp in dishes such as scampi, linguine and tortas.

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  • And simply THE best match for scampi - or in my case deep-fried, breaded prawns. —  thecookscottage
  • A shrimp scampi ($22.95) special one night turned out to be four jumbo Santa Barbara shrimp butterflied and beautifully presented in split open shells accompanied with roasted potatoes and fresh, tender cut-up green beans strewn with sliced almonds. —  Valley News valleynews.com Stories
  • Clockwise from front: Pasta di Verdura, tenderloin and scampi, and Mozzarella alla Maxx, served at Sardines. —  Home Page | DFW.com
  • Presumably these are the speeches that our Willie doesn't trouser up to an extra 25 grand a night for over your scampi or chicken-in-a-basket, and so he doesn't get round to making too many of these. —  Bob Piper
  • Dublin Bay Prawn / langoustine / scampi, MSC-certified, from Loch Torridon only —  EcoEarth.Info Environment RSS Newsfeed
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  1. Italian, pl. of scampo, a kind of lobster, from Greek kampē, bending (from its shape), perhaps from Greek kamptein, to bend.
 

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