Broiled Shrimp with Garlic Butter

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Broiled Shrimp with Garlic Butter - easy oven broiled shrimp recipe with lots of minced garlic and butter. Moist, juicy and delicious shrimp that takes only 15 mins to make!

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Broiled Shrimp

Broiled shrimp is one of the easiest shrimp recipes you can make at home. It’s so quick and easy, and the cooking time takes only a few minutes.

This broiled shrimp with garlic butter recipe yields delicious shrimps that rival the best seafood restaurants and I am going to teach you how to make it.

Jumbo shrimp broiled with garlic butter, served with a fork.

How Do You Broil Shrimp

top down shot of two jumbo shrimp in garlic butter sauce.

To broil shrimp, you will need an oven. Instead of baking, turn on the broil function and quickly broil the shrimp until they are cooked, which takes only a few minutes. Broiled shrimps are always moist and juicy!


Garlic Butter

Garlic butter shrimp served with lemon wedges.

Garlic and butter are two magic ingredients that work on all kinds of proteins, and they pair perfectly with raw shrimp.

All you have to do is mix the shrimp with the garlic and butter mixture before broiling, so easy!


What Kind Of Shrimp To Use

Garlic Butter Shrimp in a white tray, ready to be served.

For this recipe, you can use frozen shrimp. You can buy them with tail-on or without the tail.

For this broiled shrimp with garlic butter recipe, I chose shelled and deveined shrimp, without tails.

I used Argentina shrimp from Trader Joe’s. They are amazing and less than $10 per package.

They are almost as big as jumbo shrimp; they taste sweet, briny and absolutely delicious.

To serve, just cut a few wedges of lemon and serve with the shrimp.

Squeeze some fresh lemon juice onto the broiled shrimp with garlic butter and you will have utterly delicious shrimp that is a lot cheaper than restaurants.

This recipe is perfect for entertaining, especially during the holidays. Enjoy!


Frequently Asked Questions

How many calories per serving?

This recipe is only 248 calories per serving.

Broiled jumbo shrimp.

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4.65 from 14 votes

Broiled Shrimp with Garlic Butter

Broiled Shrimp with Garlic Butter – easy oven broiled shrimp recipe with lots of minced garlic and butter. Moist, juicy and delicious shrimp that takes only 15 mins to make!
Prep Time: 10 minutes
Cook Time: 8 minutes
Total Time: 18 minutes
Servings: 3 people
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Ingredients  

  • 1 lb (500g) shrimp, shelled and deveined, thawed and pat dry with paper towels
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 3 dashes ground black pepper
  • 3 cloves garlic, minced
  • 4 tablespoons unsalted butter, softened
  • 1 tablespoon parsley, chopped
  • lemon wedges

Instructions 

  • Set the oven to the Broil setting. Thaw the frozen shrimp and pat them dry with paper towels. Transfer the shrimp to a baking dish and season with salt and ground black pepper.
  • Add the minced garlic and butter to the shrimp, and stir to combine well.
  • Broil the shrimp for about 8 minutes, or until they are cooked through. Remove from the oven, top with chopped parsley, and serve immediately with lemon wedges.

Nutrition

Serving: 3people, Calories: 248kcal, Carbohydrates: 3g, Protein: 21g, Fat: 16g, Saturated Fat: 9g, Cholesterol: 230mg, Sodium: 1634mg

Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.

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11 Comments

  1. Randi says:

    I know you answered another comment saying you used raw shrimp. Would this broiling method with with pre-cooked frozen shrimp do you think?

    1. Rasa Malaysia says:

      You can use cooked frozen shrimp but they won’t taste very good after broiling.

  2. Yeh Ximin says:

    5 stars

  3. Noni Bandy says:

    5 stars
    This was absolutely wonderful….I slightly melted the butter and mixed the garlic in it and took each shrimp and drug it through and then laid on the baking sheet and broiled about 7 min for 16/20 shrimp that I left the tails on…will make this again

    1. Rasa Malaysia says:

      Hi Noni thanks for trying my recipe. Please try more recipes on my site: https://rasamalaysia.com/recipe-index-gallery/

  4. Mary Bostow says:

    5 stars
    Iโ€™m all about that garlic butter sauce โ€“ this is perfection!

  5. Karen says:

    5 stars
    Are you using raw shrimp for this recipe or pre-cooked shrimp? I am assuming raw, but the pictures look pre-cooked.

    1. Rasa Malaysia says:

      Raw shrimp.

  6. Kerja Kosong says:

    5 stars
    Shrimp naturally will give sweet taste. So garlic butter is a perfect combination with shrimp! This is truely new recipe to me. Gonna try this today!

    1. Rasa Malaysia says:

      5 stars
      Thanks for your comment!

  7. Rasa Malaysia says:

    Hi Liz, the recipe card is at the bottom of the page, shaded in pink. Did you scroll down?