Recipe: Tasty New Orleans BBQ Shrimps

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New Orleans BBQ Shrimps. In New Orleans, seafood is a food group, and we serve it any way we can. BBQ Shrimp has become a beloved local dish, but despite the name, it is not actually barbecued and does not have barbecue sauce. It can be ordered as an appetizer or entree.

New Orleans BBQ Shrimps This dish is one of New Orleans most iconic. These New Orleans-Style BBQ Shrimp are so buttery, spicy, and good. Fresh shrimp are baked in a sauce flavored with lots of spice, garlic, lemon juice, and green onion. You can cook New Orleans BBQ Shrimps using 11 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of New Orleans BBQ Shrimps

  1. You need of butter.
  2. Prepare of garlic, chopped.
  3. Prepare of BBQ sauce (or to taste).
  4. It's of Worcestershire sauce.
  5. You need of (5 tbsp.+ 1 tsp.) beer, wine or broth.
  6. Prepare of lemon juice (~1/2 lemon).
  7. You need of creole seasoning.
  8. Prepare of ground black pepper.
  9. It's of shrimp, peeled and deveined.
  10. It's of butter, chilled and cut into 1/2 inch pieces.
  11. You need of salt.

Serve with crusty French bread for an out of this world appetizer or meal. An accompanying cold beer is a must. Fresh shrimp baked in butter and Creole seasoning makes a deliciously rich dinner that is sure to please a crowd. This is our favortie shrimp recipe.

New Orleans BBQ Shrimps step by step

  1. Melt the butter in a pan over medium-high heat, add the garlic, saute until fragrant, about 30 seconds, add the hot sauce, Worcestershire sauce, beer, lemon juice, creole seasoning and pepper, bring to a simmer and cook until the sauce is reduced by half, about 5-7 minutes..
  2. Add the shrimp and cook until cooked through, about 2-3 minutes per side depending on the size of the shrimp..
  3. Reduce the heat to medium-low, stir in the chilled butter until it melts, season with salt to taste and enjoy with french bread..
  4. Garnish with sliced green onions or chopped parsley to taste..

We ate at Bubba Gumps in Ordered the New Orleans Shrimp. I looked for a long time before I found the one that tasted just like it! New Orleans Barbecue Shrimp has actually very little to do with barbecue. Popular in Louisiana, the dish refers to sautéed shrimp in a Worcestershire-spiked butter sauce. Typically made with an insane amount of butter, the shrimp are served shell-on so you eat with your hands.