GRILLED SHRIMP SKEWERS

Grilled shrimp skewers, flavoured and marinated with garlic, honey, and spices, these shrimp skewers can be premade early so that grilling and serving them can be done quickly.

A weekend meal with your family outside your patio, while these shrimp skewers are on the grill, sounds great, right?

Marinate the shrimp, place them in your cooler and all you need is a small portable griller, and you are set for a picnic in a park, beach, or your friend’s garden barbecue party.

grilled shrimp skewers serving ideas.

• Serve with a regular bowl of white rice, yellow rice, lemon rice, garlic fried rice, and chicken fried rice.
• Serve as an appetizer with a dipping sauce.
  • A cilantro dressing, honey mustard sauce.
  • A barbecue sauce.
  • A green pesto sauce
  • A homemade sweet and sour sauce.

Side dishes: steamed or roasted veggies(broccoli, asparagus), roasted carrots or beans, or garlic-roasted potatoes.

Salads- coleslaw, tangy pineapple cabbage coleslaw, pineapple salsa.

Tips to make the shrimp skewers.

• Buying shrimp to make the shrimp skewers.
  • Medium to jumbo frozen ones would work well for the shrimp skewer recipe.
  • For best results use tail on. you can make these shrimp skewers with skin on or off. I’ve made these shrimp skewers with the skin off so you can easily enjoy the shrimp as soon as they are grilled.
• Taste the marinade and make sure the flavours are spot on. tangy, sweet, and salt should be balanced.
• Make extra marinade to brush over the grilling shrimp to add more flavour.
• Marinade the shrimp for at least 20-30 minutes before grilling them.
• Use bamboo skewers and soak them for 15 minutes.
• Thread at least 4-5 shrimp in a skewer and then slightly spread them.
• When grilling over a stovetop or griller, each side of the shrimp should be cooked for just up to 2-3 minutes.
• Grilling them for more than two to three minutes will make the shrimp rubbery.

marinades and seasoning for grilled shrimp.

• Marinate in your favourite barbecue sauce with a teaspoon of oil mixed into it, you can adjust the taste by adding extra salt, pepper, and sugar.
• Mix in salt and pepper with some garlic powder for a quick and easy marinade.
• Garlic powder + ginger powder + paprika + salt seasonings mixed with butter or oil.
• Olive oil + garlic powder + lemon juice + cilantro or parsley.

FAQ: grilled shrimp skewers.

• Can I make the shrimp skewers ahead of time?
  • You can but for best results, grilled shrimp should be warm.
  • I would suggest marinating the shrimp ahead of time and then grilling them 20 minutes before serving time.
• Can I use fresh shrimp?
  • Yes, you can, but having precleaned, frozen shrimp just makes life a little easier. Here’s a guide on how to defrost shrimp correctly.

• How do I clean and devein shrimp to make this recipe?
  • Here’s my guide on how to devein and clean shrimp.

• How long should I grill the shrimp skewers?

You can grill these shrimp skewers over a stove top(medium heat) or oven(preheat 357F/180C) and cook for 2 minutes on each side.

More shrimp recipes

Blackened shrimp.

Spicy shrimp with chilli-lime marinade.

Sesame garlic shrimp stir fry.

Tandoori shrimp.

Pil pil shrimp.

Ingredients to make grilled shrimp skewers.

To make these easy shrimp skewers, you will need 7 ingredients.
Most of these ingredients would be used to make the marinade.

• medium to large shrimp
• soy sauce(you can use light or dark)
• Honey
• Cloves of garlic minced(substitute with 2 teaspoons of minced garlic or 1 tablespoon of garlic powder)
• Paprika(substitute with red chilli powder)
• Hot sauce(any type of hot sauce would do)
• oil

How to make grilled shrimp skewers.

Have all the ingredients for the marinade ready.

Place them in a bowl and combine well.

Taste and adjust the flavours as you need.

Add the deveined and cleaned shrimp into the bowl.

Marinate the shrimp for at least 20 minutes.

While the shrimp marinate, submerge the wood skewers in water and let them soak for 15 minutes.

Once you have the skewers and shrimp marinated.

There should be 4-5 shrimp per skewer,

Preheat the grill pan over medium-high heat for at least a minute.

Brush the remaining marinade onto the shrimp and then place them on the grill.

Grill for at least 2 minutes on each side, place them on a platter with some lime wedges and serve them.