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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.
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How Do You Broil Shrimp?
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 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?
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!
How Many Calories per Serving?
This recipe is only 248 calories per serving.
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Broiled Shrimp with Garlic Butter
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 chopped parsley
- lemon wedges
Instructions
- Set oven to Broil setting. Thaw the frozen shrimp and pat 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, stir to mix well.
- Broil the shrimp for about 8 minutes, or until they are cooked. Remove from oven, topped with chopped parsley, and serve immediately with lemon wedges.
Nutrition
I know you answered another comment saying you used raw shrimp. Would this broiling method with with pre-cooked frozen shrimp do you think?
You can use cooked frozen shrimp but they won’t taste very good after broiling.
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
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I’m all about that garlic butter sauce – this is perfection!
Are you using raw shrimp for this recipe or pre-cooked shrimp? I am assuming raw, but the pictures look pre-cooked.
Raw shrimp.
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!
Thanks for your comment!
Hi Liz, the recipe card is at the bottom of the page, shaded in pink. Did you scroll down?