Mains
Oven-Grilled Shrimp
Oven-grilled shrimp with an easy, distinctive home-style recipe. Preparation won’t take much time, but the result is fantastic. Choose large shell-on jumbo prawns for this dish!
Oven-grilled shrimp or jumbo prawns — a very easy recipe that’s elegant and incredibly tasty.
Ingredients
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- 1½ kg large shell-on jumbo shrimp (prawns)
- Marinade
- 1/2 cup soy sauce (optional)
- 1/2 cup lemon juice
- 1/2 cup olive oil
- 6 cloves garlic, crushed
- A pinch of black pepper
- 1 tsp fish seasoning
- 1 tsp paprika
- 1 tsp chili powder
- 1/4 cup chopped fresh cilantro (coriander)
- Grilling
- 1 onion, sliced
- Hot pepper slices — optional
Method
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- Using scissors or a knife, butterfly the back of each shrimp and remove the black vein, leaving the shell and head intact.
- Mix the marinade ingredients together and coat the shrimp.
- Refrigerate for about 1 hour.Timers: 60 min
- Arrange the shrimp in a baking tray.
- Distribute the sliced onion and hot pepper over the shrimp.
- Cover the tray with aluminum foil and prick several holes in the foil with a knife.
- Place in a preheated oven and roast the shrimp at 200°C (about 400°F) until the underside browns, then turn them in the tray to brown the other side.
- Transfer the grilled shrimp to a serving platter lined with chopped lettuce and serve with lemon slices.
- For more of Fatima’s delicious recipes see Oven-grilled fish
- For more seafood dishes see Spicy Tripoli-style fish
Recipe tags
MainsInternationalPescatarianDairy freeNut freeEgg freeBakedGrilledFishShrimp
Notes and serving ideas
- Oven-grilled fish
- Spicy Tripoli-style fish
