- 2 (8 ounce) packages bread crackers
- 1/4 cup butter
- 2 pounds peeled and deveined small shrimp
- 1 pinch garlic salt with parsley, or to taste
- 5 teaspoons olive oil
- 2 fennel bulbs, cored and finely chopped
- 2 cloves garlic, finely chopped
- 2 sprigs fresh thyme, leaves chopped
- 1 tablespoon salt
- 1 tablespoon ground black pepper
- 2 tablespoons chopped fresh basil
- Lay out crackers on a serving platter.
- Melt butter in a large skillet over medium-low heat. Add shrimp; season with garlic salt. Cook and stir until pink all the way through, 3 to 5 minutes per side. Place 1 shrimp on each cracker.
- Heat olive oil in a separate skillet over medium heat. Add fennel, garlic, and thyme; cook and stir until fennel softens, about 15 minutes. Remove from heat. Season fennel with salt and pepper. Stir in basil.
- Spoon fennel mixture evenly over shrimp.