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Paul Prudhomme Best Cajun Shrimp Recipe

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The Best Shrimp Dish Ever! Cajun BBQ Shrimp! Super Easy!

cajun shrimp

The Dish

This is a very famous Cajun shrimp dish from New Orleans. They call it BBQ shrimp but it has nothing to do with BBQ except maybe the sauce.

Yes this may be the very best shrimp dish you will ever have! That is if you like Butter and Spice. The combination of flavors is incredible and you can whip it up in minutes.

Tom Sietsema The Washington Post critic said

“The shrimp are barely heated through, to preserve their supple texture and sweet flavor, and they sport a yellow sauce that starts out mild-mannered but quickly becomes a ball of fire on the palate. The heat, from cayenne and black pepper, is not so intense, however, that you can’t appreciate the sauce’s complex layering of flavors.” Full review of my little café HERE

What Shrimp?

I used large head on shrimp because we were eating it with bread. It was sloppy fun to eat and it is was served as a first course. In my restaurant I served it with large peeled shrimp as an entrée with rice.

The dish is quite easy to make and I guarantee once you master it you will make it over and over again

So Easy Only One Tip 📢

Tip📢-The only trick is to lower the heat at the end and shake the butter into make a sauce. If your sauce breaks add a tablespoon of water and shake it together over the heat until your sauce is how you like it. If you break it again repeat. This will work with many sauces.

All You Need

  • shrimp
  • fresh rosemary (you can use dried if it is a quality brand and not old)
  • butter
  • garlic
  • spices (black pepper, thyme, cayenne, oregano, pepper flakes)
  • beer
  • lemon
  • Worcestershire
  • stock or water and bouillon

Follow the easy recipe below

Lower Calorie Tip

I instead of adding the second batch of butter mix 1 tsp cornstarch into the broth. It will thicken and still be great.

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Cajun BBQ Shrimp

This may be the best shrimp dish ever and it has nothing to do with a BBQ.

  • 16 large head on shrimp (can use whatever shrimp you want. If you serve with rice peel the shrimp)
  • 4 cloves garlic (minced)
  • 1 tsp worcestershire
  • 1/2 stick butter
  • 1/2 tsp cayenne
  • 1/2 tsp black pepper (fresh ground! the other name for this dish is black pepper shrimp)
  • 1/4 tsp crushed red pepper
  • 1/2 tsp dried thyme
  • 1/4 tsp dried oregano
  • 1 sprig fresh rosemary (can use 1/4 tsp dried rosemary)
  • 1/4 cup beer
  • 1/3 cup chicken or shrimp stock (I use chicken base. If you do watch your salt)
  • salt to taste
  • 1 slice lemon
  • 2 tbsp butter (shake it in to thicken)

  1. melt 1/2 the butter with garlic

  2. when butter is melted add shrimp, worcestershire, spices, rosemary

  3. sauté a couple of minutes then add broth, beer, lemon, and salt if needed If you use chicken base watch the salt.

  4. when shrimp is cooked (nice and pink and barely translucent) remove it to a plate, lower the heat. add the rest of the butter and shake until thickened.

  5. add the shrimp back and keep shaking. If the sauce breaks read note below.

  6. Serve with rice or baguette. Garnish with green onion.

If the sauce breaks add a little water or an ice cube and shake it back together.

If your having a hard time thickening add more butter and shake or mix a little cornstarch and water and mix it in.

Appetizer, Main Course
bbq, cajun, shrimp, spicy

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