This awesome grilled shrimp marinade recipe makes the best seared or grilled shrimp, with a hugely flavorful combination of sweet and spicy. Get your grills ready!
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It’s a simple combination that comes together in the perfect way to infuse your shrimp with loads of flavor, and a bit of that zesty spice we spicy food lovers crave. It’s the perfect grilled shrimp recipe, really, with such a bold and piquant marinade leading the way.
It’s also great if you’re sautéing or cooking up shrimp on the stove top, so it’s just a grilled shrimp marinade, but a shrimp marinade in general. No matter how you care to cook it!
Let’s talk about how to make my zesty shrimp marinade!
Shrimp Marinade Recipe – How to Make Spicy Shrimp Marinade
Ingredients
¼ cup olive oil
1 tablespoon honey or you can use brown sugar
2 cloves garlic minced
1 tablespoon fresh parsley chopped
1 teaspoon smoked paprika (try an extra pinch or two of ghost pepper powder for some great spiciness!)
1 teaspoon lime zest
½ teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes or more as desired – optional, for spicier marinade
Salt and black pepper to taste – 1/4 teaspoon each is usually good
Hot Sauce to taste – optional, but hey! I NEED hot sauce! Spicy shrimp for me, please. =)
1 pound shrimp peeled and deveined
Cooking Directions
Whisk together the olive oil, honey, garlic, parsley, paprika, lime zest, red pepper flakes and salt and pepper in a small bowl. Reserve a few tablespoons now if you’d like to use some as a finishing sauce.
Place the shrimp in a large zip-lock bag and pour the marinade over them. Seal the bag and refrigerate at least 15 to 20 minutes, or for 1 hour before cooking.
When ready to cook, drain the marinade and discard it.
Grill or saute the shrimp for 2-3 minutes per side, or until pink and cooked through. Transfer to a serving platter.
Squeeze on a bit of fresh lime juice to finish.
Recipe Notes & Tips
Reserve a couple tablespoons of your marinade before marinating the shrimp to use as a glaze or finishing sauce.
Get the printable recipe with further notes and discussion here, along with suggestions for how you can change it up and make it your own: https://www.chilipeppermadness.com/recipes/shrimp-marinade/
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I hope you like it! Leave comments below, my friends! Enjoy the grilled shrimp, or however you decide to cook them! I’ll take spicy shrimp anyway I can get them.
TIMESTAMPS
0:00 Mix together Ingredients
1:14 Whisk Marinade
1:27 Reserve Marinade for Glaze
1:42 Marinate the Shrimp
2:03 How Long to Marinate
2:15 Ratios of Ingredients
2:34 Heat Factor
3:00 Ways to Cook the Shrimp
3:28 Glaze the Shrimp
4:07 Other Recipes & Taste
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36 Comments
I see shrimp tacos in my future. This recipe looks incredible!
Going to make this tomorrow night!!
This recipe is beautiful .. I will cook this in your own version .. sure it will taste so delicious of all spices you added .. thanks for sharing .. have a blessed Friday .. cheers
looks great man!
Plans for this weekend, thanks again Mike.
Is it ok to make the marinade the night before and keep it refrigerated until time to marinate the shrimp?
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Hi, I just tried your recipe, it's awesome. Thank you for sharing
Great video.
Regards from Brazil.
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New subscriber… Thank you, your recipes are unique. You should be getting a ton more views
🤤🤤🤤 perfection yet again. Thanks so much for taking the time to make these amazing videos👍🍻
don’t be shy add soy sauce
Great video very informative right to the point professionally. A lot of videos nowadays are total Time Bandits they got this 15 minute long presentation in the beginning it usually takes him 5 minutes before they say anything is worthwhile and then it's just a show about their personality not with you my man your professional rights of business man appreciate your video
Excellent! If you don’t mind me asking the temperature of the grill? Thank you!
great recipe, subscribed
Nom nom… tacos await.
Hey how much time for the grilling. Thanks
J made this it was so fire
Thank you so much. We love to listen to you you were straight into the point and your recipes are fantastic. This has been our go to my husband has not wanted me to switch since I first made this. I love that you can tweak it and no matter what it comes out good whether it’s a little sweeter a little spicier a little richer it’s still delicious every time. Thanks so much!
Great marinade! Delicious😋
Nice! How much marinade for 1.2 kg of shrimps? Double your recipe?
That marinade looks really nice. I've experimenting with more citrusy, acidic marinades and I really love them.
Massive respect for using extra virgin olive oil and not heart clogging canola, soybean or vegetable oils.
Yo Mike, what's your thoughts on letting the Marinade, you know Marinade for maybe a day.
Shrimp is the only meat I eat…and for now on, this will be the only way I make it. Truly amazing recipe.
Wow, just made this, (minus hot sauce and using brown sugar)and it is flipping delicious!!!!! Thank you!!!!
I must post. I made these last night i used Mike's hot honey left out the pepper flakes. Without a doubt the Best Grilled Shrimp i ever had. Thats for this awesome recipe!
Would double the recipe be enough for 2lbs shrimp
What's your Favorite Way to Cook Shrimp?
Absolute scorcher in London today – Just put this together and have lit the bbq… OH YES OH YES!!!!
My fiancé loves this and so do I! Used it to make a chicken sandwich too and it came out so goood! Thanks for showing us!
Short and sweet to the point and great recipe.
This looks delicious! The recipe is for approximately how many shrimp? I'm trying to see how much to mix for about 4lbs of shrimp. Thank you for your assistance and posting such delicious recipes
Just came back to this video to say THANK you!!! Honestly I made this marinade already sooooo many times and it is just so simple and good even without the salt (I am on a low sodium diet). Love this and thank you so much for sharing it and having a such a clear video!
Just tried your recipe and it’s a winner thanks