Cajun Recipes for a Crowd: Spicy Cajun Shrimp
If you’re looking for cajun recipes for a crowd, look no further! This Spicy Cajun Shrimp recipe is quick to prepare and soooooo tasty. The marinade works well with white fish too.
Finding dishes that are delicious, can feed an army, and don’t involve chicken, turkey or ham can be hard to come by. Thirty-minute from-scratch meals that can feed us all are rarer yet, which is why we think this recipe has been so enduring.
This recipe doubles well, triples even as long as you have a dish that’s large enough to accommodate the shrimp in a single layer.
We love it best over basmati rice to sop up all of the tasty juice.
Below is our ever-so-slight adaptation of the original recipe.
This recipe doubles, and triples, well.
PrintSpicy Cajun Shrimp
Spicy Cajun shrimp is a quick and easy recipes that’s dinner party worthy but speedy enough for a weeknight. Includes a homemade recipe for Cajun seasoning
- Prep Time: 5 minutes
- Cook Time: 10 minutes
- Total Time: 15 minutes
- Category: Savoury dishes
Ingredients
- ½ cup olive oil (I have reduced this to 1/3 cup with good results)
- 2 Tbsp. Cajun Seasoning (*see below for homemade version)
- 2 Tbsp. lemon juice
- 2 Tbsp. chopped parsley or cilantro (more is good)
- 1 Tbsp. Crosby’s Fancy Molasses
- 1 Tbsp. soy sauce
- Dash of Worcestershire sauce
- 1 lb. shrimp, peeled
*Don’t like bought Cajun seasoning? Here’s the homemade blend that we use:
- 1 tsp thyme
- 1/2 tsp rosemary
- 2 tsp paprika
- 1/4 tsp smoked paprika
- 1 clove garlic
- 1/4 onion, minced
- 1 bay leaf
- pinch cayenne pepper
Instructions
- Combine marinade ingredients in a large baking dish and add the shrimp, tossing to coat well.
- Let the shrimp rest in the marinade for 20-30 minute (optional)
- Bake at 450 for about 10 minutes, or until shrimp are pink.
Keywords: cajun recipes for a crowd, spicy cajun shrimp, cajun shrimp
Paul Peckford
Being a great seafood lover the Spicy Cagun Shrimp recipe was absolutely wickedly awesome! Thank you so very much for all of your wonderful, nutritious recipes! Your molasses meatball recipe I recently made was wonderful as well! Paul
★★★★★
Crosby Molasses
Thank you Paul for trying our recipes! -Marie at Crosby’s Kitchen
mike lucero
you don’t show any garlic used on your recipe, can i add it. ?? I like to cook my shrimp on my grill and pour the sauce over it. potatos, peppers, and my shrimp, awesome. what can i add to make it more soupy.
Marie-Pierre Lessard
Yes, you can add garlic
vicky
Love the shrimp recipes as well as the cauliflower. Thanks
Laurie
These are delicious! I cooked them on a cookie sheet on the BBQ. I will probably reduce the oil to 1/3 next time. Used my homemade Cajun seasoning mix and it was so good!
Cheryl Abbass
Is that a St Fx ring I see you wearing….I live about 40 minutes from Anitgonish, NS, outside of New Glasgow…….I am originally from Sydney, anS