BBQ Shrimp

Recipe?

You’re going to post this and not even have a picture, much less share the recipe? Get out of here.

OK, you shamed an old cripple man with a broken neck into typing up the recipe and posting the pic.

BBQ Shrimp
2.5 Lbs Shrimp unpeeled, head on, I trim the whiskers. 9-12’s are perfect if you can get.

.5 cup Melted butter
.33 cup L&P
1 tsp Salt
1 tsp Black pepper
.5 tsp Cayenne
1 Tbsp EVOO
.25 tsp Celery seed or celery salt
1 tsp Thyme
1 Tbsp Fresh rosemary
1 Tbsp Minced garlic

Preheat oven to 400F. Mix sauce and pour over shrimp, let sit 15-20 min while oven preheats. Bake 15-20 minutes in middle of oven, depending on size. Do not overcook or the shrimp shells will stick. Serve with toasted French bread for dipping.

I made some a couple of weekends ago.

Olive oil
Basil
Worcestershire
Black Pepper
Red Pepper flakes
Trinity Seasoning
Dried minced onion
Garlic Powder
Stick of butter, cut into pads

2 lbs of 16-20 shrimp, tails only. Mix everything but the butter and coat shrimp. Cut butter into 8-10 pads and spread over shrimp. Cover and cook in oven or grill in pan until shrimp turn pink- seems like it was 10-12 minutes, but I didn't keep time

Just recently saw the episode on man vs food about the deanies bbq shrimp and wrote it down. It looked awesome!

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tails only

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sacrilege
the heads make the sauce

I love it at Manale’s and Mosca’s but the reason I don’t get it there that often is because we can cook it at home as good or better than they can.

The reason you don’t see it at restaurants that often is because it creates such a mess. That is why they give you the bibs. Emeril’s serves a delicious version already peeled.

I do the Mr. B’s recipe and follow it exact, adding the pats of butter on low/no heat little by little. It makes such a silky, thick sauce. I don’t like the oily ones either.

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I have found Pascal’s Manale’s to be oily and without much seasoning.

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I’m pretty sure they actually use margarine, which is why they seem “oily” versus the more desirable butter emulsion.

Here is another tidbit about bbq shrimp although this only a theory of mine. So the story is some New Orleanian goes to Manales and asks them to make this dish he had in Chicago one time. He describes it to them as “spicy shrimp with a butter or oil sauce.”

I’ve always wanted to know what the original dish was but my hunch is it was gambas al Ajillo. That’s a spicy, head on shrimp dish served in a puddle of oil in a casserole dish. Anyway that’s my theory.