This oven-baked barbecue shrimp recipe is one of my husband's favorite dishes. The recipe isn't exactly healthy, but it is fabulous and feeds a lot of people. It is a common dish in Louisiana. You can cut it in half for a family dinner.
Ingredients
- medium shrimp, with shells: 5 pound
- butter: 2 pound
- medium sweet onion: 1 piece (minced)
- garlic: 8 clove (minced)
- stalks celery: 2 piece (diced)
- fresh parsley: 0.25 cup (chopped)
- Creole seasoning: 2 Tbsp
- rosemary: 2 Tbsp (dried)
- ground black pepper: (to taste)
- Worcestershire sauce: 0.5 cup
- lemon juice: 2 tsp (fresh)
Metric Conversion
Stages of cooking
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Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Arrange the shrimp in a single layer in as many baking dishes as you need. Set aside.
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Melt 1/2 cup of butter in a large skillet over medium heat. Add onion, garlic, celery, parsley, Creole seasoning, and rosemary. Cook and stir for a few minutes, until onion is tender. Add rest of butter and cook until melted over low heat. Stir in pepper, Worcestershire sauce, and lemon juice. Pour this mixture over shrimp so that shrimp are completely submerged.
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Bake in the preheated oven until shrimp are pink, 15 to 20 minutes.
