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Why You’ll Love My Recipe
These juicy shrimp are flavoured with a tasty seasoning blend and sauteed in butter and garlic. Enjoy these with or without the tails.
Learn how to make your very own Cajun Seasoning blend for this recipe and then use some for these Cajun Onions too! Serve your shrimp with The Best Cornbread Muffins and some Make Ahead Mashed Potatoes to round out the meal.
Karlynn’s Recipe Notes
- Skill Level: This is a very easy recipe.
- Total Time: These shrimp take 10 minutes to make.
- Variations: Modify the seasoning to your own personal tastes, or use a totally different seasoning, like Shrimp Seasoning. Increase the amount of garlic, fry some onions in the pan with the shrimp, or use this spice rub but put your shrimp on skewers and grill them on the barbecue.
- Tools Needed: For this recipe, you’ll need a small bowl, a spoon or whisk, a large skillet, and some tongs.
What You’ll Need For Ingredients
Shrimp: You can use whatever uncooked shrimp you’d like for this recipe. Make sure to clean and devein them if that hasn’t already been done. Adjust your cooking time according to the size and thickness of the shrimp.
Cajun Seasoning: You can easily make Cajun Seasoning on your own or buy some. The traditional base mix is cayenne pepper, smoked paprika, onion powder, garlic, salt, and pepper. With the personalization of other spices, you can add more flavors you enjoy.
How To Make Cajun Shrimp
This is a brief overview of the recipe. The full list of ingredients and step-by-step instructions are in the recipe card below.
- Mix olive oil, Cajun seasoning, and lemon juice in a small bowl until it forms a paste.
- Fully coat the shrimp with the paste.
- Melt butter in hot pan and add garlic. Saute until fragrant.
- Arrange shrimp in a single layer in the pan.
- Sauté for 4-5 minutes, turning occasionally until the shrimp are opaque.
Karlynn’s Tips and Tricks for Making Cajun Shrimp
Don’t Overcook the Shrimp: Overcooked shrimp lose too much moisture and become rubbery. Small shrimp are easy to overcook. The rule of thumb for shrimp is to cook medium shrimp for approximately 3 minutes, large shrimp for 4–5 minutes, and jumbo shrimp for 6–7 minutes.
Serving Suggestions: Serve these spicy, juicy shrimp with Corn Fritters and some Classic Homemade Coleslaw. You could add it to a barbecue spread along with BBQ’d Steak With Sauteed Vegetables or Easy Garlic BBQ Chicken and Campfire Chili Cheese Fries. Maybe even just throw them on top of your favourite salad as a protein.
Storage Instructions
Fridge: Once its fully cooled, you can store leftover shrimp in a sealed container in the fridge for 1-2 days.
Freezer: You can store shrimp in a sealed container in the freezer for several months. To avoid freezer burn, try putting leftover cooked shrimp in a vacuum storage bag or squishing as much air as possible out of a zipper seal bag.
More Delicious Shrimp Recipes
Looking for more ways to cook shrimp?
Try some Coconut Shrimp or Popcorn Shrimp on your next appetizer tray.
Make Air Fryer Shrimp or a bowl of Shrimp Dip.
For something a bit different, check out Pickled Shrimp.
There you go. A quick, easy, and flavourful way to make shrimp. Try it out and let me know what you think.
Happy Cooking!
Karlynn
Cajun Shrimp
Ingredients
- 1 pound large shrimp, peeled, deveined, rinsed and patted dry
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 tablespoon Cajun seasoning
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
- 1 tablespoon minced garlic
- 2 tablespoons butter
Instructions
- In a small bowl combine the olive oil, Cajun seasoning and lemon juice until it forms a paste.
- Rub the paste onto the shrimp, coating them evenly.
- Place the butter into a medium skillet over medium high heat.
- Melt the butter then sauté the garlic until browned and fragrant.
- Place the shrimp into the skillet in a single layer.
- Cook for 4-5 minutes until the shrimp are opaque and cooked completely.
- Don’t over cook them, they will be rubbery.
Notes
- This recipe works with any type of shrimp, but we love to use jumbo shrimp for a treat!
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
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