Grilled Garlic Butter Shrimp
The lemon garlic butter sauce is simply perfect! Pair with a glass of wine and crusty bread for the best 30 min meal ever!
Why does grilled food taste better?
Is it because we grew up roasting marshmallows, and then picking off the charred off bits, which were clearly the best parts?
Because that’s exactly what’s happening here.
The charred, smoky, grilled shrimp is just so much better than stovetop shrimp!
Maybe it’s the grill marks. Or maybe it’s the garlicky, lemon butter sauce.
Or maybe it’s the wine or the crusty bread to soak up that garlicky goodness.
I simply don’t know.
Grilled Garlic Butter Shrimp
The lemon garlic butter sauce is simply perfect! Pair with a glass of wine and crusty bread for the best 30 min meal ever!
Ingredients
- ½ cup unsalted butter
- 1 shallot, minced
- 4 cloves garlic, minced
- ¼ teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes, or more, to taste
- Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste
- 1 ½ pounds medium shrimp, peeled and deveined
- 2 lemons, halved
- 2 tablespoons chopped fresh parsley leaves
Instructions
- Melt butter in a small skillet over medium heat. Stir in shallot, garlic and red pepper flakes until fragrant, about 2 minutes; season with salt and pepper, to taste.
- Thread shrimp onto skewers; season with salt and pepper, to taste. Brush with 2 tablespoons butter mixture.
- Preheat grill to medium high heat.
- Add skewers to grill, and cook, turning occasionally, until the shrimp are pink and opaque, about 3-4 minutes. Add lemons to grill, cut side down, during the last 2 minutes of cooking time.
- Serve immediately, drizzled with remaining butter mixture, garnished with lemons and parsley, if desired.
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Can I use frozen, raw shrimp thawed the day before??
Damn delicious!
Well done. Will try that
That’s all I can say is WOW! I served the shrimp skewers with angle hair aglio et olio which always includes colorful fresh veggies like asparagus or broccoli, cherry tomatoes, yellow pepper and black olives.
I didn’t alter the recipe at all…it was perfect as is.
This was delicious but, man, I wish I had tripled the butter mixture. Would have been so good for us to dip our baguette in!
Stunning meal
Made this for the second time, my husband and I love it. We used to live on Oahu where we enjoyed the shrimp trucks, particularly Giovanni’s (well known among tourists and locals), and their most popular dish was very similar to this! I was trying to recreate their recipe and this is very close! It is delicious! I added a bit more butter, garlic, and shallots because they are so good. I squeezed the lemon juice all over the top as I love lots of lemon. I skipped the pepper flakes, usually I love spice but I thought the garlic and lemon were already the perfect flavor! We served it over rice, I will certainly make this again and again!
This was a quick and easy recipe great for seafood lovers such as myself:) The only thing I did different was I used a 1 whole fresh lemon squeezed rather than lemon juice. It made more of a sauce that I could pour over white rice with the shrimp. My fiance loved it.
Perfect and delicious! Yes, the butter sauce is superb. I think this shrimp recipe is better than Red Lobster’s! My husband loved this! Thank you for this recipe.
This dish was a HUGE hit at my BBQ. My family are foodies and focus on the food (and beverages!) at a party. Everyone, even my college nephews and girlfriends were in love with these kabobs.
They were so easy to make and not even one was left over. In fact, my BFF asked me why I didn’t make more of them! My mom asked me how long I had marinated the shrimp… which I did not do. They were so flavorful prepared as stated in recipe.
Make again for sure.
Compliments to the chef! Thanks for sharing, Danielle. So glad to hear it was a hit!
Great recipe. I skipped the shallot because I don’t have any, I added cherry tomatoes from my garden between the shrimp on the skewers.
Thanks for sharing with us, Eddie!
This was soooo good. I forgot to garnish with parsley but it was still amazing.
I love this recipe! We had friends over for dinner and both couples left asking for the recipe.
That’s lovely, Lyn! Thanks for sharing! 🙂
This was sooo good! We legit wanted to lick the plates! The sauce was delicious…I just wish it didn’t take so long to clean the shrimp lol but it was well worth it…can’t wait to make it again
Isn’t it the best? 🙂
You can buy the peeled and de-veined shrimp, cuts down on time and effort!
Just made this last night for our family and …..IT WAS A HUGE HIT!! Everyone loved it!! Soooo Good!!!
We love that! Thanks for sharing, Elizabeth! 🙂
Made this in the oven and served with egg noodles. So good!
Your recipe was easy to follow and super easy to grill on my BBQ. I squeezed a lime over them as a baste while cooking and they were wonderful!! Thanks for sharing.
Tasty and easy! I added Old Bay spice after placing shrimp in the sheet pan. Love this website!
I used all the ingredients on the stove (no grill) and even that way, the shrimp were delicious!
That’s great!
To be a food blogger you apparently need infinite patience!! I would quite naturally squeeze those wonderful grilled lemons over the shrimp or in the sauce. Thank you for the recipe that I will make tonight.